Winter Espresso Blend – Gift Coffee Tin 300g

Taste & Crema

This unique espresso blend is characterized by five single origin Arabicas. We've taken their unique specialties further by roasting each one separately to achieve an extraordinary harmony of flavors. The specific roasting methods can be recognized both by the colour of the blend –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ there are both lighter and darker beans –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and above all by its unmistakable taste. On a solid base of dark chocolate, vanilla and cinnamon to evoke the winter atmosphere, you'll be able to taste the fresh flavors of blueberries, blackcurrants and oranges. It makes for a pleasant, balanced, multi-layered experience.

This espresso blend is suitable for all types of espressos, but you can also achieve interesting results by using a chemex or drip machine.

Origins

If we were writing a book about thiss coffee, it would be a pentalogy, since this limited espresso blend requires five full-fledged chapters. We'll introduce you to one original Arabica in each. To begin with, we roasted each variety separately and to a different degree. We roasted them many times and repeatedly. We tasted, set aside and tried again. Until all the selected Arabicas formed one beautiful flavor chord. The espresso blend prepared in this way differs from the so-called Italian espresso, which is a very dark roast prepared all at the same time. Our roast offers a variety of shades.

We chose the five single-origin coffees very carefully to reflect the characteristics of winter days, so that you can recognize the scent of frosty mornings and warm afternoons underneath your blanket. Enjoy a limited-edition inspired by a time of the year when nature is asleep, but there is still so much to discover. First up, let's mention the Dominicana AA Juncalito Arabica from the high mountains of the Dominican Republic. Those are known to produce a truly great coffee. But of course, in small quantities. Local farmers only venture into the inaccessible terrain a few times a year to check, replant or harvest the bushes. They can forget about artificial fertilizers or sprays.

They couldn’t take them that high. Dominican coffee therefore achieves the quality of organic coffee, although they get no verification seals yet. More than the stamp, however, we'll be interested in the taste. This coffee is pleasantly sweet, despite the fact that oranges and grapefruits play a major role in its flavor. They are slightly accentuated by an aftertaste of chocolate, so the result appears harmonious and complex. The second in the bunch is Java Jampit A/WP-1X Estates, an Arabica that has flown in from the east of exotic Java. The volcanic soil and the equatorial sun have given it a rich flavor and careful processing guaranteed the highest quality. This variety is also grown in the hills, farmers only pick the ripe fruit, and because Java is not yet fully on the electric grid, much of the local production is based on traditional handwork. And the results are excellent! The coffee is sweet, chocolatey and with a velvety hint of vanilla.

The aroma is slightly spicy. Where did the cinnamon flavor come from in the espresso blend, you ask? From India Monsoon Malabar AA Grade, a third Arabica, which brings a subtly earthy, spicy cinnamon. It's cultivated in the hills of the Indian coast, where farmers also plant cardamom, cloves and, of course, cinnamon. It's also processed with a special monsoon process that brings out the unmistakable flavor profile in the beans. Not forgetting Congo Kivu. This Arabica harmonizes the whole espresso blend wonderfully. It enhances the spiciness and brings notes of dark berries and oranges. Its sweet, fruity aftertaste is unforgettable. This is a variety from a small family farm in the eastern regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The plantations are scattered in a mountainous area, so the coffee plants receive both sun and wind while growing. Cool, wet nights are replaced by hot days. This gives the local coffee an extraordinary balance of flavor.

A final stunning five: the Colombian Honey Beauty crowns the Winter Espresso blend with a touch of cherry, cocoa and cinnamon. We brought it from El Rubi Farm from Mr. Heiner Lazo, who has been a coffee farmer (along with his wife) for a quarter of a century. They do it so well that their Arabica Colombia Finca El Rubi Papagayo Honey is loved by baristas in every coffee shop in the world. If they can get their hands on them, of course. It's a coffee produced in limited quantities. Its aroma and flavor speak both of the high mountains in which it was grown and of the unique, exotic Papagayo variety with which the farmer is successfully experimenting. The processing of the coffee is not exactly common either –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Heiner Lazo relies on the honey method, which does not strip the green beans of their sweet pulp, but dries them in the sun with it. This makes the honey coffee with the El Rubi logo a perfect complement to all its fellow Winter Espresso Blend coffees.

Contents:

Dominicana AA Juncalito

Java Jampit A/WP-1X Estates

Monsoon Malabar AA Grade

Congo Kivu

Colombia Finca El Rubi Papagayo Honey