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We have published thousands of coffee reviews and espresso reviews since 1997. The reviews below appear in reverse chronological order by review date. Older reviews may no longer accurately reflect current versions of the same coffee. To search for a specific roaster, origin or coffee use the Advanced Search Function.


86

PJ's Coffee & Tea

Viennese Blend

Review Date: Jun 2001

Powered by the earthy, slightly musty, forest-floor notes of (I assume) Sulawesi or Sumatra coffees, with an added touch of acidy brightness and sweetness. The earthy notes hint pleasantly at chocolate. Marred by a slight metallic note as the cup cools.

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85

Café Moto

Dolphin Blend

Review Date: Jun 2001

The clean nut-like notes and undertone of spice are unusual for a moderately dark-roasted coffee like this one. The body is impressively full, the finish roasty and pungent with a mild but pleasing bitterness.

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85

Polly's Gourmet Coffee

Polly’s Blend

Review Date: Jun 2001

Here the whole is more than the parts. A balanced structure of sweetness and bitterness and a plump, smooth body compensate for a relative lack of nuance. For some coffee drinkers, the bitterness may assert itself a bit too strongly in the aftertaste.

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85

Coffee Roasters of Pasadena

Gamble House Blend

Review Date: Jun 2001

A pleasingly balanced American cup. Nut and vanilla tones shimmer in the nose and a comfortable sweetness predominates in the cup, lifted by a discreet acidity. Bitter undertones confer authority to the cup but tend to dominate in the rather flat aftertaste.

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84

Classic Coffees Roasting Co.

Wake Up! Carolina

Review Date: Jun 2001

A breakfast blend with a good deal of character but little balance or coherence. The sweet front end with its pleasingly exotic edge of floral notes and ferment-toned fruit (Ethiopia Harrars?) is precariously supported by a smoky, pungent dark-roast bottom. Eventually, however, the roasty bitterness prevails in a rather severe finish.

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84

Polly's Gourmet Coffee

Alan’s Blend

Review Date: Jun 2001

The virtue here is a round and gentle sweetness, the weakness simplicity. The sweetness fades a bit in the finish.

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86

Classic Coffees Roasting Co.

Eastern Carolina Morning Blend

Review Date: Jun 2001

A full-bodied, richly acidy morning blend laced with dry fruit tones. A slight astringency haunts the cup, masked by rich aromatics when the cup is hot, but a bit puckerish as the coffee cools.

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89

Lerida Estate

Special Reserve – Green

Review Date: Apr 2001

A splendidly pure, clear, ringing profile, with a sweet floral acidity some jurors compared to the great Kenya coffees. A hint of deeper, pruny fruit gave the profile ballast and authority. My initial score almost perfectly matched the collective score, but as the cup cooled it seemed to simplify and to allow the acidity to dominate. Hence my mildly dissenting score.

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92

The Roasterie

Indonesian Kalossi

Review Date: Mar 2001

Superb range: delicate floral top notes, sweet cherryish middle, bitter, muskily animal bottom. A full but subtle sweetness prevails in the cup, a rich bitterness in the aftertaste. As exotic and complex as a gamelon performance.

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90

Sunrise Coffee

Celebes Kalossi

Review Date: Mar 2001

A superb Sulawesi: rich, big-bodied but smooth, with a shimmer of acidity animating its heart. Elegant balance of bitter and sweet tones, fine range from middle to bottom of the profile, a hint of flowers, and deep, dry plum-wine fruitiness.

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90

Orleans Coffee Exchange

Sulawesi Toraja

Review Date: Mar 2001

Rich, sweet and clean throughout, with a chewy fullness and a tickle of acidity in the cup, an excellent balance of sweetness and bitterness in underlying structure, and a gentle fade toward chocolate in aftertaste.

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88

Alpen Sierra Coffee

Celebes Toraja Kalossi

Review Date: Mar 2001

A hint of cinnamon in the nose and cocoa in the finish, but the main pleasure here is the underlying structure: low-toned, rich, dry, balanced, and opulently, almost meatily, full-bodied.

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87

Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company

Celebes Kalossi

Review Date: Mar 2001

Very low-toned, smooth, with a dry, fruity bittersweetness that, with slow drinking, settles toward chocolate. A slight, musty astringency shows up in the aftertaste, but the pleasantly pruny bittersweetness prevails.

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86

Plantation Coffee Roasters

Sulawesi

Review Date: Mar 2001

Replete with earth, leather, and vaguely animal and forest notes. In structure leans more toward the bitter side of bittersweet, but blooms with chocolate opulence for a moment toward the finish.

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85

Montana Coffee Traders

Celebes

Review Date: Mar 2001

A fine sweet, roasty nose with hints of spice and leather. In the cup the spice and animal notes deepen toward earth and mustiness. The relatively light roast allows a touch of acidity to brighten the cup, but fails to develop the underlying sweetness.

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84

Orleans Coffee Exchange

Sulawesi Toraja Dark

Review Date: Mar 2001

The rather aggressive dark roast simplifies the coffee, intensifying the bitter tones, dampening the sweet, and turning hints of chocolate toward spice. The aftertaste is attractively bittersweet but thin.

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85

Silver Canyon Coffee

Aged Sumatra

Review Date: Dec 2000

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86

Martinez Fine Coffees

Brazilian Cerrado Capim Branco

Review Date: Dec 2000
Price: NA

Crisp rather than bright, dry rather than acidy, bittersweet, cocoaish, elegant but limited. From a well-run farm in the relatively new growing region of Cerrado. Martinez Fine Coffees is known for its elegant packaging and respectful presentation of single-origin coffees.

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81

White Horse Coffee & Tea

India Monsoon Malabar

Review Date: Dec 2000

The charred tones of the aggressive dark roast are relieved by a substantial sweetness and twisty, musty tones that publicists often label chocolate. They aren ‘t chocolate, but they can be pleasantly intriguing, as they are here. Beans are coated after roasting with acid-neutralizing agenMonsooned coffees have been exposed deliberately to moisture-laden monsoon winds in […]

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80

A'Roma Roasters

Blue de Brasil

Review Date: Dec 2000

Sweet, caramelly and resonant in the nose, but a smoky pungency dominates the cup and turns unpleasantly rubbery as the cup cools. Blue de Brasil is an organically grown estate coffee. A ‘Roma Roasters is a quality-oriented, small-batch roaster located just north of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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