Blind Assessment: Light, dryly fruity, complicated by pleasant cocoa tones. Simple, ingenuous, agreeable. Not sweet, but stays on the gentle side of bitter.

Notes: Light, dryly fruity, complicated by pleasant cocoa tones. Simple, ingenuous, agreeable. Not sweet, but stays on the gentle side of bitter. From one of the earliest cooperatives to market an organic coffee in North America. Now Fair-Trade Certified as well. As the French label copy has it, this coffee is "Biologique, Polycultive Ecologique." Café Mystique is a small-batch roaster specializing

Who Should Drink It : A breakfast coffee whose acidy brightness is tamed by the roast. A multiple-cup drip coffee for unpretentious activists.