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Cumbre Supremo (A4)

Coffee Specs

Grade	Specialty
Category	Invalsa Supremo, Exceptional (A4)
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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
Body	6	Overall	6.5
		Total	50.5
Total Score	36+50.5		86.5/100

Comments: Bright, lingering acidity with floral, pepper spice & apricot notes. Very sweet, orange citric body. Creamy, chocolate aftertaste. Nice match with dark chocolate and orange liquors.

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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, ahem).

This year's Supremo Roast come from the farm of Yolanda Condori and her husband Martin Uluri, who are well-respected coffee growers that have participated successfully in several Cup of Excellence competitions since 2004. Yolanda & Martin's farm is located in the community of Uchumachi, Carrasco La Reserva County, Province of Caranavi, Republic of Bolivia.

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:


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)
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.

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.