A rich, balanced lighter-roasted cup. Complex aroma: tart, cherryish coffee fruit, milk chocolate, honey, a hint of flowers. In the cup wine-like acidity, lightly syrupy mouthfeel. The coffee fruit notes are complicated by a slightly savory, spice-like nuance. Simplifies slightly in a cleanly rich finish.

December 11th, 2009
Aromatic notes of roasty chocolate, aromatic wood and remote fruitiness. Medium to full body, smooth mouthfeel and soft acidity that hints at brightness. A faint suggestion of flowers and sweet citrus in the cup round to fruit-toned chocolate. Finishes cleanly, with mild notes of toast, roastiness and cocoa in the long.
Sweetly round aroma with hints of tropical fruit and wood. Soft acidity, full body, delicate mouthfeel with flavors of sweet grapefruit, cedar, earth and dark chocolate. A mildly astringent roasty pungency emerges in the short finish that softens and sweetens in the long.
In the pungent aroma chocolate, walnut, toasted grain, perhaps caramel. Mild acidity and balanced flavors, with hints of citrus that soften to a more sweet-toned fruit and then to an earthy chocolate. Slight roughness in the finish distracts from the pleasant bittersweet chocolate character.
Straightforward roasty aroma, with hints of sweet chocolate. In the cup, simple in flavor: soft nuttiness and a charred cedar. Leanish mouthfeel, medium body, with bittersweet roastiness carrying into a dry finish.
Pleasingly round aroma: nut, aromatic wood and a suggestion of fruit. In the cup balanced acidity, medium body, and a soft citrus note that rounds toward a mild, simple sweetness. As the cup cools the finish turns slightly astringent and a touch sour.
Aroma of cedary wood and roasty chocolate, with a faint hint of earthiness. In the cup, medium body, leanish mouthfeel and flavor dominated by sweet-toned aromatic wood that lingers into a long, dry, mildly roasty finish.
Deeply roasty aroma with hints of cedar, nut and chocolate. In the cup, medium body and sweet-toned flavors: charred wood, dark chocolate and hint of earth and pungent fruit. The finish displays some sweetness and a mild astringent roastiness that lingers in the long.
Smoky aroma with faint hints of aromatic wood, nut and a slight suggestion of fruit. Medium body, lean mouthfeel, with simple sweetness and roasty charred wood notes. The roastiness lingers in a mildly astringent finish.
Notes of smoky dark chocolate and caramel-like sweetness in the aroma. Soft roundness in the cup, with a slightly lean mouthfeel and a roasty flavor that flirts with rosemary and pine. Simple notes of charred wood and chocolate persist in the finish.