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Coffee Specs
| Grade |
Specialty |
|
Category |
Invalsa Supremo,
Exceptional
(A4) |
|
Screen |
16/17 |
|
Altitude Grown |
Above 4,000 feet |
|
Cupping
Scores |
84
(Minimum), Range: 85 - 89 |
Sample Cupping Score from our
Head Cupper
| Aroma |
6 |
Flavor |
6.5 |
|
Sweetness |
6.5 |
Aftertaste |
6.5 |
|
Acidity |
6.5 |
Balance |
6.5 |
|
Body |
6 |
Overall |
6.5 |
| |
|
Total |
51 |
|
Total Score |
36+51 |
|
87/100 |
Comments: Bright, lingering acidity with floral,
spice & apricot notes. Very sweet, orange citric body. Creamy, chocolate
aftertaste. Nice match with dark chocolate and orange liquors. |
|
| Best |
| 8 |
| 7 |
| 6 |
| 5 |
| 4 |
| 3 |
| 2 |
| 1 |
| Worst |
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This is our
Supremo Roast
for the coffee
lover who will settle for nothing but the prize roast from each roaster. This
is unblended, single-terroir coffee. It is artisan roasted in one pound
small batches from professionally graded and cupped, award-winning,
Specialty
Bolivian green coffee beans. It is packed in 10 oz, 1 lb, 2 lb, and 5 lb.
foil bags for retail and 6 lb for wholesale.
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
Supremo Roast
we use our sister company's (Invalsa
Coffee)
exceptional green coffee beans. They are hand selected and personally
identified by
Invalsa Coffee's
Chief Buyer in Bolivia from award-winning samples, and roasted to its peak
flavor and aroma by our Roastmaster. These coffee beans are only found in small
batches and usually come from a single farmer or small coffee estate. To
preserve their taste and aroma,
Invalsa Coffee
vacuum packs these beans in 15 kilo bags at
origin (Bolivia) before it makes the long (and steamy) trip north of the
Equator. Once in the United States we maintain them in their mylar vacuum-packed
bags in our temperature and humidity controlled warehouse north of Boston, where
they are kept just until they are opened for careful roasting to maximize
their potential. This coffee is awesome and then some! (false modesty aside).
This year's
Supremo Roast
comes
from the farm of Aurelio Luque. His farm, together with his brother Braulio's,
and sister-in-law, Aida Titirico/s,
constitutes
the Cima del Jaguar (Jaguar's Peak) micro estate located in the
community of Kantutani, Province of Caranavi, Plurinational State of Bolivia. Braulio
is a well-respected coffee grower,
having participated successfully in several Cup
of Excellence (COE) competitions since 2004. He was a top-three finalist in
2007, 2008 & 2009. Sadly, there have not being any more COE competitions in
Bolivia since 2009.
In
its February 2007 issue, the highly respected
Coffee Review
publication, reviewing Coffees of the Andes in South America, rated our Cumbre
Supremo as one of the best Bolivian coffees reviewed, assigning it the score of
89 points. We are very proud of our first CoffeeReview.com review. This is
what Ken Davids, one of the foremost coffee authorities in the world, said on a
blind assessment: "Superb, richly
sweet-toned aroma: semi-sweet chocolate with hints of raisins and cedar. In the
cup rather lean-bodied, delicate, with crisp, very distinct cocoa-chocolate
notes nuanced by hints of lemon, caramel, raisin." Furthermore,
he suggests the following people should drink it: "Those
interested in exploring the pleasing edge of coffee flavor that overlaps cacao
and chocolate." Below is the complete
review:
 |
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Kenneth Davids
Editor & Writer |
|
| Cafe Valverde |
Organic Bolivian Coffee, Cumbre Supremo, New
England Light Roast |
| West Newbury, Massachusetts |
Reviewed: February 2007
|
|
Overall Rating:
89 points
Aroma: 9
Acidity: 7
Body: 7
Flavor: 8
Aftertaste: 7
Roast (Agtron):
Medium-Dark (43/56) |
|
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Origin: Bolivia
Notes: Cafe Valverde is the U.S.-based
roasting partner of Invalsa Coffee, a Bolivian export/import company focused
on identifying, supporting and exporting the best coffees from Bolivian
small-holding farmers. From an industry-wide perspective, by the way, this
coffee does not qualify as a light roast, but comes in at the darkish end of
medium. Nevertheless, it is an appropriate and tactful roast that develops
this coffee's attractive cocoa-chocolate character. Visit
www.cafevalverde.com or call 888-422-3338 for more information.
Blind Assessment: Superb, richly sweet-toned
aroma: semi-sweet chocolate with hints of raisins and cedar. In the cup
rather lean-bodied, delicate, with crisp, very distinct cocoa-chocolate
notes nuanced by hints of lemon, caramel, raisin.
Who should drink it: Those interested in
exploring the pleasing edge of coffee flavor that overlaps cacao and
chocolate.
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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.
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