Comments on: Tasting: Green Mountain’s Special Reserve Colombian Dos Quebradas

By: Bloggle: Coffee & Commentary » Article » Tasting: Ecco Caffe’s Colombia La Virginia

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:29:25 +0000

[...] I’ve recently written about my new-found appreciation for Colombian coffee—a growing region I’d long written off as an example of style over substance; marketing over matter. The past few weeks I’ve had not only opportunity to eat most of my prior sour words, but also the sweet pleasure of some fine Colombian coffees with which to wash them down. And this one… well, it’s the sweetest yet. [...]

By: Bloggle: Coffee & Commentary » Article » Coffee Notes from All Over

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:27:40 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, Ken Davids has posted a hat full of reviews of Special Reserve coffees, and in so doing encounters much the same scenario we faced at Green Mountain with our choice for the Colombian First Harvest Cup of Excellence—a single bad bean that threatened the entire lot: [...]

By: deCadmus

deCadmus — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:00:58 +0000

Hi, Steve!

Thanks for the kind words. ;)

We had a lively debate about the defect in our sample. It ran the course from, “No way should any defect of any kind show up in coffee at this level,” to, “The ocassional bit of ferment shows you’re really pushing your coffee hard in processing to make it the best it can be. If there’s no ferment, you’re not trying hard.”

If the defect we’d found had been phenol, I think it would have come off the table, period. As likely as anything, I suspect the defect we found was a bean left in the fermentation tank from a prior batch and it got a double-whammy.

Happy cupping!

By: Stephen Leighton

Stephen Leighton — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:01:05 +0000

Just wanted to comment on the first harvest COE Colombians you talked about.

I was a member of the international jury this year, and you wouldn’t have believed how many coffees we threw out for phenol, or how many got punished for ferment. It was so tough because as you found 3 or the four cups were some of the finest Colombians I’ve ever tasted, then SLAM gone.

Love the blog keep up the hard work.

Steve