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Coffee Classification
Espresso
Espresso coffee is the true essence of all coffees. From the light creamy top, to the rich, thick and flavorful body. Some coffee drinkers prefer to drink espresso coffee straight up, thick and strong. But espresso coffee is often used as the base for many delightful coffee drinks, such as cappuccinos, lattes and mochas. Embody the dark, musky, but smooth and silky, rich flavor you expect from a fine Espresso coffee.
Dark Roast
Gourmet Coffee can be roasted to almost any degree, from a very light roast to, a medium roast, to a very dark one. The same coffee can change color, from cinnamon through chestnut, chocolate, and on from mocha to ebony, as it is roasted darker and darker. And, the same coffee will have a change in taste according to the roast as it brings out different flavors.
The direct and bold taste of Dark Roast coffee has become very popular with the core coffee drinking crowd. The deep, full roast develops the coffee beans to their fullest body, while not completely roasting out its fabulous high altitude flavors.
Often described as fully embraceable and invigorating, with smoky aromatic tones. This is a fully satisfying coffee experience. The Dark Roast coffee is the least bright (or acidic) and most bitter.
Medium Roast
Gourmet Coffee can be roasted to almost any degree, from a very light roast to, a medium roast, to a very dark one. The same coffee can change color, from cinnamon through chestnut, chocolate, and on from mocha to ebony, as it is roasted darker and darker. And, the same coffee will have a change in taste according to the roast as it brings out different flavors.
Medium Roast coffee is a perfect interpretation of the perfect coffee roast. Robust in body, deep flavor, bursting aroma and gentle acidity. Medium roast coffee is the most well balanced of all roasts. It has good body, lowered acidity, complex aroma, integrated, elegant, charismatic, with average levels of bitterness. Perfect as an all day sipper.
Light Roast
Gourmet Coffee can be roasted to almost any degree, from a very light roast to, a medium roast, to a very dark one. The same coffee can change color, from cinnamon through chestnut, chocolate, and on from mocha to ebony, as it is roasted darker and darker. And, the same coffee will have a change in taste according to the roast as it brings out different flavors.
Light Roast coffee is lighter in body with a bright smooth edge and intoxicating exotic highland mountain coffee aroma. The Light Roast coffee is the least bitter, with a clean finish (or acidic) and has the least body of our select roasts.
A lot of people prefer this roast as a first brew of the morning pick me up.
There are volumes to be said about how to better enjoy fine gourmet roasted coffees! But the best thing to do if you love coffee is to taste one of gourmet varieties of delicious high-grown gourmet 100% Arabica coffees today.
Organic
Organic coffee has been allowed to mature without any chemicals. No artificial chemicals have been used to grow or process this organic coffee.
Most cultivation of coffee uses some sort of chemicals. Chemicals although aiding many farmers in cultivating large coffee crops and keeping down costs of coffee cultivation is better for the farmers and workers, but also for their families, neighbors, land, water, plants, animals, birds, and, finally, for you, the consumer if they can be avoided. Shade-grown coffee is a natural way to avoid the use of herbicides, allows for rich compost, and integrates habitats for migratory and native bird species.
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