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Exotic Coffee Review
Hula Daddy Kona Coffee Hula Daddy 100% Kona Peaberry
Origin: South Kona growing district, Big Island of Hawaii
A simple, rich, deeply dimensioned dark-roasted cup. Sweetly roasty in the aroma with semi-sweet chocolate notes. In the cup the roast continued to dominate with mildly charred wood tones overlaying semi-sweet chocolate and perhaps some dry berry notes. Rich, clean finish with continued dry chocolate notes.
Overall Rating: 88 points
Papa Nicholas Coffee Mocha Java Blend
Origin: Yemen or Harrar region of Ethiopia; Java, Indonesia
The aroma is very sweet in impression, gingery and orange-toned, the acidity gentle, the cup delicate but rich with a ginger-toned fruit that rounds and settles toward chocolate as the cup cools. Clean, chocolate-toned finish.
Overall Rating: 92 points
Allegro Coffee Indonesia Malacca Straights Pure Water Decaf
Origin: Indonesia, probably northern Sumatra or southwestern Sulawesi
A very heavy-bodied coffee, roasty but not burned, low-toned to the point of bluntness, with pungent cedar notes that approach semi-sweet chocolate and a hint of Mediterranean herb.
Overall Rating: 85 points
Thanksgiving Coffee Rwanda Gorilla Blend
Origin: Rwanda, Central Africa
Low-toned fruit (peach?), semi-sweet chocolate and fresh-cut cedar notes in the aroma. The cup is delicate but lush, enlivened by a softly tart acidity and complicated by continued fruit (cherry, peach) and semi-sweet chocolate notes. The finish is simple but sweetly clean.
Overall Rating: 90 points
Kaffe Magnum Opus Zambia AA Plus, Lupili Estate
Origin: Zambia
A changeable coffee both as it cools and from session to session. Constants are a crisp coffee fruit that probably best reads as pear or cherry, a smoky, spicy chocolate sensation, and distinct floral notes that at times resemble an elegant, heady lilac. The finish tends to be heavy, but as the cup cools the long finish is finely floral.
Overall Rating: 88 points
Dazbog Coffee Sulawesi
Origin: Toraja (also Kalosi) growing region, southwestern Sulawesi, Indonesia
Lushly high-toned, remarkably complex aroma: flowers (tea-rose?), temperate fruit (pear perhaps), milk chocolate. Slumps toward a lower-key bittersweet character in the cup with only occasional glimpses of chocolate, but the giddy floral top notes persist. Slightly shallow finish.
Overall Rating: 88 points
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