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Cumbre Roast

Coffee Specs

Grade	Specialty
Category	Invalsa Cumbre, Best (AAA)
Screen	16/17
Altitude Grown	Above 4,000 feet
Cupping Scores	84 (Minimum), Range: 84 - 88

Sample Cupping Score from our Head Cupper

Aroma	6	Flavor	6
Sweetness	7	Aftertaste	6
Acidity	7	Balance	6
Body	6	Overall	6
		Total	50
Total Score	36+50		86/100

Comments: Persistent sweet flavor, butter sweet, rich solid body, mild floral caramel, floral spice, long orange citrus mouthfeel, sweet mint, bright acidity, red apple, lemon balm, tangerine. Distinct aroma.

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This is our Cumbre Roast for the fussy, single-origin coffee drinker and the one-of-a-kind, special occasion when only the best coffee will do. The green coffee for this roast is vacuum-packed at origin,. It is selected, unblended, single-terroir coffee. It is artisan-roasted from professionally graded and cupped, Specialty highest-altitude Bolivian green coffee beans. These coffee beans are 100% Arabica (Tipica 50%, Caturra 20%, Yellow Catuai 25%) and come from the Taipiplaya area and were processed by the AIPEAD cooperative. These coffee beans were shade-grown in the higher altitudes of Colonia Amor de Dios in the Caranavi Province of the Republic of Bolivia.

We will custom roast these beans for you and send them in heat-sealed, foil bags with a one-way air valve, which lets the CO2 out, but not the air in. This is significantly more expensive than the standard Kraft paper coffee bags available in the supermarket and most coffee shops, but it maintains the high-quality of our roasted coffee. Unless you tell us otherwise, we will roast these coffee beans to the level that our Roastmaster judges best for the type, density and crop-year of the bean.

For our Cumbre Roast we use our sister company's (Invalsa Coffee) best production green coffee beans. They are hand selected and personally identified by Invalsa Coffee's Chief Buyer in Bolivia and roasted to its peak flavor and aroma by our Roastmaster. These coffee beans are only found in small batches and come from a few, select farmers. To preserve their taste and aroma, Invalsa Coffee vacuum packs the beans at origin (in Bolivia) in 15 kilo bags. Then they ship them from Bolivia to their temperature and humidity controlled warehouse in Boston, where they are kept until we carefully roast them to maximize their potential.

Because of its flavor and aroma (see cupping notes above) we prefer a dark (#35 Agtron/SCCA) roast for these coffee beans. However, we can custom-roast them to your taste (light, medium or dark). We are fanatics about green coffee quality, roast freshness and, ultimately, coffee flavor. We only sell what we drink. We are importers of high-quality Bolivian coffee and distributors coffee roasting and brewing equipment.

These coffee beans are organic-certified by BioLatina (an USDA agent) and Fair Trade certified by FLO International. Copies of all our certificates are available at our website. Hard copies are available, upon request, with wholesale orders.

If you are serious about your coffee (as we are!), buy roasted coffee whole bean (in our opinion, buying whole bean is the only way to buy roasted coffee). We suggest that you get a burr coffee grinder, specially if you want to make Espresso.. A burr coffee grinder is good for all kinds of coffee brewing methods. Some people, however, cannot afford (or do not want to spend the money) for a burr coffee grinder, so they buy a blade grinder. A blade grinder is fine for drip coffee makers (what most Americans use) and French Pots, but it is not good for Espresso. We have a nice selection coffee grinders (both blade and burr) in all price categories. Please check them out under the "Coffee Gear" button.

If you would like to experiment with your own coffee roasting at home, please visit our other, secure online store, Invalsa Coffee, for green coffee and home coffee roasting equipment.