Blind Assessment

The floral perfumes are high-toned and exquisite in the aroma and overwhelmingly fragrant in the cup. Eventually a sweet, bright-toned coffee emerges from behind all the flowers. Owing to the floral lift the body reads as lightly buoyant rather than thin.

Notes

Yirgacheffe, with its extravagant floral character, may be the world's most distinctive coffee. The floral perfumes from this sample are high-toned and exquisite in the aroma and overwhelmingly fragrant in the cup. Eventually a sweet, bright-toned coffee Yirgacheffe, with its extravagant floral character, may be the world's most distinctive coffee. From the 1997 crop.

Who Should Drink It

Those who like to be surprised, but prefer surprises produced by nature rather by artifice. In other words, Yirgacheffe is a coffee that flavors itself, from the deep heart of its own mystery.

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