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Green Reviews

From 1997 to 2001, Coffee Review occasionally published reviews of green coffees.  For the ensuing two decades, Coffee Review focused solely on roasted coffees. In 2022, we resumed publishing standalone reviews of green coffees.

The green reviews below are meant to help commercial roasters, home roasters, and other industry professionals source superior quality green coffees, while directly recognizing and rewarding the farmers and growers who produce the coffees. These scores are on the Coffee Review scale, judging the coffee from the point of view of potential consumer acceptance of the coffee as a finished product at a medium roast. These scores are NOT equivalent to Q or industry scores, which are typically lower for a similar coffee.

Note: Roasters should not use green reviews to promote their roasted version of the same coffee. The roasted version of coffees may achieve a higher or lower score than the green version. Older reviews, particularly those from 2001 to 2003, may no longer accurately reflect current versions of the same coffee. Coffee Review performs basic due diligence on the green coffee samples it evaluates. However, we rely on the submitter of a green coffee sample for the authenticity of the sample and accuracy of the sample description. Coffee Review does not independently confirm the information provided and accepts no responsibility for the authenticity of samples reviewed. Companies or individuals using Coffee Review ratings or reviews as the basis for purchasing green coffees should conduct their own due diligence, including additional sample testing, to make sure the coffees they buy are the same coffees that we reviewed.


93

El Vergel Gesha Marcela

Elias and Shady Bayter, El Vergel Estate

Review Date: Jan 2022
Harvested: January to March 2021

Evaluated as a sample-roasted green coffee. Bright, sweet, delicately fruit-forward. Freesia, apricot, pink grapefruit zest, marjoram, hazelnut in aroma and cup. Sweet-toned structure with juicy, balanced acidity; satiny-smooth mouthfeel. Sweetly nutty finish supported by notes of apricot and marjoram.

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93

Duwancho Kebele Natural 74110 G1

Dawencho G/H/D Bunna Amrach

Review Date: Jan 2022
Harvested: January to March 2021

Evaluated as a sample-roasted green coffee. Crisply sweet, cocoa-toned. Cocoa nib, tangerine zest, almond, narcissus, cedar in aroma and cup. Brightly sweet-tart with citrusy acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Cocoa- and floral-toned finish.

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93

Specialty Grade – Green

Mama Cata Estate

Review Date: Apr 2001

A powerfully understated, slow-developing cup with an acidity enveloped in sweetness, low-toned wine and cherry notes, a silky body, and a long, clear finish. The cup rounded and strengthened impressively as it cooled.

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89

Special Reserve

Horqueta Estate

Review Date: Apr 2001

A sturdy if simple Latin-American cup: Little nuance but substantial body and bright acidity. High-toned, balanced, clean, direct.

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90

Specialty Grade – Green

Cooperativa de Café Boquete

Review Date: Apr 2001

Delicate floral and fruit notes reminiscent of Ethiopia wet-processed coffees shimmered in this complex, richly-textured coffee. The acidity was understated but resonant and wine-toned.

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88

Special Reserve – Green

Volcancito 2 Estate

Review Date: Apr 2001

Pleasingly heavy, round, low-key, with a nicely balanced bittersweetness when hot. As the cup cooled sweetness enveloped the bitter tones and turned them pleasingly chocolate in the finish.

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91

Special Reserve – Green

La Victoria Estate

Review Date: Apr 2001

This deeply dimensioned coffee rewarded patience. My initial score was the same as the jury 's, but as the cup cooled I found myself adding points as a slight bitterness dropped away and a seductive fruit- and floral-toned sweetness prevailed.

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91

Special Reserve – Green

Cooperativa de Productores de Café Boquete

Review Date: Apr 2001

Elegant rather than authoritative, with a clear, bell-like, but not overpowering acidity, delicate, flower-toned aromatics, and a smooth, sweet finish.

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92

Specialty Grade – Green

San Benito Estate

Review Date: Apr 2001

A classic, high-toned, vanilla-laced aroma; in the cup subtle, rich, resonant, with pronounced chocolate tones that carry straight through from cup to finish.

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84

Special Reserve – Green

Maunier Estate

Review Date: Apr 2001

A hint of flowers and perhaps chocolate in the finish were the only complications in this straightforward but sweetly ingratiating cup. The chocolate tones may have revealed a slight twist of sweet ferment as the cup cooled.

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89

Specialty Grade – Green

Cafetalera Fernandez

Review Date: Apr 2001

I found this coffee floral and brightly buoyant when hot, and deeply dimensioned as it cooled. A hint of monotoned bitterness also emerged, however, which I tolerated, but which put off other jury members.

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79

Var. S795 – Green

India Badra Estates

Review Date: Jan 2001

A light, bright, fragrantly smooth cup. When hot alive with shimmers of citrus, spice, and nut tones. As the cup cools, however, a disturbing vegetative undertone surfaces: "grassy," "dried peas," "sour," panelists complained. A potentially superb coffee, an India version of the great, brightly nuanced coffees like Guatemala Antigua and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, but flawed by either processing/storage errors or too much unripe fruit.

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79

Var. S795 – Green

India Badra Estates

Review Date: Jan 2001

A light, bright, fragrantly smooth cup. When hot alive with shimmers of citrus, spice, and nut tones. As the cup cools, however, a disturbing vegetative undertone surfaces: "grassy," "dried peas," "sour," panelists complained. A potentially superb coffee, an India version of the great, brightly nuanced coffees like Guatemala Antigua and Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, but flawed by either processing/storage errors or too much unripe fruit.

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80

Washed – Green

India Honnamatti Estate

Review Date: Jan 2001

An impressive coffee, and distinctive in the India mode: sweet, svelte, smooth, balanced, with some intrigue that read as chocolate, nut, or spice (I tasted cardamom). "Big coffee, sweet," one panelist concluded.

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81

Var. S795 – Green

India Mysore Plantation A

Review Date: Jan 2001

A hint of Indian spice and perhaps some flowers in the nose, but rather unremarkable in the cup: simple, straightforward, pleasingly sweet when hot, bland and inert when cold. Perhaps the spice and flowers account for the high rating of this coffee relative to the others in the India cupping.

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81

Var. Kent – Green

India Balanoor Plantations

Review Date: Jan 2001

A fine coffee in the India mode; almost all panelists had something positive to say about it. Sweet, deeply resonant, softly acidy, long in the finish, gently nuanced with tones variously read as spice, nut, and citrus. Sustained its virtues beautifully when cold. Given the enthusiastic written assessments, I have no idea why this coffee was not more highly rated.

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68

Var. S4345 – Green

India Betta Crown Blue Pearl

Review Date: Jan 2001

A coffee flawed by a veritable anthology of processing taints: harsh, musty, dirty, with an unpleasant old vegetable taste that one panelist described as "dirty carrots." Somebody was not minding the mill when this coffee came in from the fields. A traditionally wet-processed or "washed" coffee grown under shade at elevations of 3,000 to 3,500 feet. From the contemporary hybrid variety S4345.

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75

Washed – Green

India Emerald Valley Estate

Review Date: Jan 2001

Most of the panel found this coffee defective; "medicinal, nose-wrinkling," said one. Others acknowledged the defect but found some virtue in the cup, reading the mustiness as cedar or cardamom.

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75

Var. Kent – Green

India Mysore Plantation A

Review Date: Jan 2001

The panel was divided on this coffee. Some admired its sweetness and rich, deeply dimensioned balance; others were put off by a slight off-taste read variously as soapy, bitter, or sour. A small and subtle flaw, but it apparently dragged down the rating of an otherwise quietly complex and sweetly resonant coffee.

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76

Nuggets Extra Bold – Green

India Mysore

Review Date: Jan 2001

This pleasant but monotoned coffee prompted little comment from the panel. Most detected a mild grassy or astringent note. I found the aroma sweet but grassy, the cup agreeable and balanced but unremarkable.

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