Coffees of Colombia 2012 - March 2012By Kenneth Davids; Reviews by Kenneth Davids and Justin Johnson
Both the dark side and the bright side of the trend toward offering select, precisely identified lots of green coffee (aka “microlots”) showed up in this month’s sampling of thirty-four coffees from Colombia. On the bright side, we cupped several precisely identified, small-lot coffees that expressed pure and subtle variations on the classic Colombia high-grown profile. On the dark side, we had other samples displaying fine-sounding, microlot-ish names on their packaging but ranging in the cup from ordinary to flat-out tainted. We...