| Roaster Location: | Beverly, Massachusetts |
| Coffee Origin: | Narino Department, southern Colombia |
| Roast Level: | Medium |
| Agtron: | 49/65 |
| Review Date: | February 2007 |
| Aroma: | 8 |
| Acidity: | 8 |
| Body: | 8 |
| Flavor: | 8 |
| Aftertaste: | 8 |
Blind Assessment
A classic cup: pure, simple, intense, refined. Sweet-toned but crisp aroma: tomato, cedar, cardamom, chocolate. Richly and sweetly acidy in the cup with the classic complex of flowers and fresh coffee fruit with rounding hints of chocolate.
Notes
A prize winner in the 2006 Colombia Second Harvest Cup of Excellence competition, where as a green (unroasted) coffee it placed eighth out of hundreds of entries, attracting a score of 88.65 from an international jury. Produced from trees of the caturra variety at an impressive elevation of approximately 6,000 feet by farmer Alvaro Flavio Ortega. Atomic Cafe is a coffee house on the North Shore of Massachusetts that began its in-house roasting program in 2005. Visit www.atomicafe.com or call 978-922-0042 for more information.
Who Should Drink It
An archetypal breakfast cup.
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This review originally appeared in the February, 2007 tasting report: Cupping the Andes: Southern Colombia, Bolivia and Peru
