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Simon Hsieh's Aroma Roast Coffees

Natural Brazil “Hat Magic” Phoenix Special

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Roaster Location: Taoyuan City, Taiwan
Coffee Origin: Minas Gerais, Brazil
Roast Level: Medium
Agtron: 46/60
Est. Price: NT $1000/16 ounces
Review Date: December 2016
Aroma: 9
Body: 9
Flavor: 9
Aftertaste: 8
With Milk: 8

Blind Assessment

Evaluated as espresso. Rich, deep, roundly spicy. A particularly aromatic cedar plus caramel, almond butter, peach, rose-like flowers in aroma and small cup. Full, velvety mouthfeel. Flavor consolidates around a cedar-toned chocolate in a resonant finish. Crisp and delicate in three parts milk: continued cedar and chocolate.

Notes

A classic example of a fine Brazil dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit has been removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. In addition to his retail roasting operation, Aroma Roast Coffees, Simon Hsieh also operates Soaring Phoenix Trading, a business focused on purpose-built commercial espresso blends and high quality single-origin coffees. Visit www.facebook.com/4ArtsZeroDefectCoffees or call 886-0983-749876 for more information.

Bottom Line

A particularly deep, balanced straight shot, accessible, satisfying, resonant.

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