Starbucks Coffee
Guatemala Antigua
Roaster Location: | Seattle, Washington |
Roast Level: | Dark |
Agtron: | 38/40 |
Review Date: | April 1997 |
Aroma: | 8 |
Acidity: | 8 |
Body: | 7 |
Flavor: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
This rich, deeply dimensioned, complex version of the great Guatemala profile happily combines clear, wine-toned acidity with satisfying dark-roast pungency. I even detected a hint of the famous Antigua smokiness smoldering somewhere inside the pungency.
Notes
This rich, deeply dimensioned, complex version of the great Guatemala profile happily combines clear wine-toned acidity with satisfying dark-roast pungency. Antigua, from the region surrounding the old capital of Guatemala Antigua, is the classic Guatemala coffee.
Who Should Drink It
A challenge to Starbucks scoffers, who doubt a coffee company with over one thousand stores can turn out coffees both singular and distinctive. Starbucks may be a corporate bully when it comes to business practices, but it proved something to me with this one.
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This review originally appeared in the April, 1997 tasting report: The Dark-Roast Controversy