Roaster Location: | Branford, Connecticut |
Coffee Origin: | Alto Quiel, Boquete, Panama. |
Roast Level: | Medium |
Agtron: | 51/66 |
Est. Price: | $18.99/16 ounces |
Review Date: | August 2012 |
Aroma: | 9 |
Acidity: | 9 |
Body: | 8 |
Flavor: | 9 |
Aftertaste: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
Delicately rich, deeply fruit-toned: minty chocolate, caramel and lushly carnal fruit, apricot or mango. Gentle, deep-toned acidity; lightly syrupy mouthfeel. Flavor-saturated finish.
Notes
This is a dry-processed or "natural" coffee, meaning the beans were dried inside the fruit rather than after the fruit has been removed, as is the case with wet-processed or "washed" coffees. The Lamastus family’s Elida Estate averages the highest growing elevations in Panama: 5,500 to 8,200 feet (1,700 to 2,500 meters). Willoughby's Coffee & Tea is a pioneer specialty coffee roaster established in the early 1980s that has gracefully and successfully moved with the times and now offers a menu of extremely refined small-lot, single-origin coffees. Visit www.willoughbyscoffee.com or call 800-388-8400 for more information.
Who Should Drink It
More chocolaty depth and richness than brandy and fruit in this surprisingly clean and balanced dried-in-the-fruit natural.
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This review originally appeared in the August, 2012 tasting report: Not Your Same Old Panama Coffees