Rant about coffee etc. (skip if bored/boring/too contentious)

So I have to remove my tongue from my cheek as I withdraw the above description, which is verging on cringe worthy....however Here is my point as we welcome this excellent coffee back into the fold.

Firstly, back in 2007 using a single farm coffee as an espresso that wasn't from Brazil was a little frowned upon or unusual at least. Putting a great (micro-produced "Family Coffee") coffee from Costa Rica in your espresso machine? I can remember all of these broken miss-conceptions that James Hoffmann and Anette Moldvaer smashed to pieces. May be there are many who wouldn't admit that, but hey-ho! That's the way it is sometimes. That was 2007 and the World Barista Championships. 

After that year, I have been hesitant to bring back Herbazu as it seemed to have peaked "socially" and was on everyone's shelf by their machine. That's also why you wont see Gethumbwini on our list these days. It reached its Zenith. The point of just buying it because of last year or something that happened in the past, possibly that shouldn't have happened to a fine estate Kenya...and If there is a better coffee...then that is the one we have to have.

Herbazu 2010

So it's 3 years. I remember the long, slow roast of Herbazu which is so against how we typically like to treat coffees. This year we haven't adopted and cloned the style of previous seasons as that's lazy and also we can miss things this way.

This is a really heavy, rich and deeply chocolaty coffee. A little acidity and spice are in the mix too...but if you had to label flavours as percentage of ingredients, they would be small amounts in comparison to the huge chocolate character. It's a wow and a stunner, although for me would only come home as a lighter filter style roast. 

Important Stuff.

Herbazu is a cluster of 13 micro-farms, each of an average of 2.5 Hectares and owned by siblings (5 sons & 8 daughters). Each one of the family are responsible for ensuring the coffee is produced to excellence at each stage, from the various stages of growing to picking, milling and drying.

This is a family who have been in coffee for 4 generations and are the pioneers of the Occidental part of Naranjo in micro lots and modern designer coffee production, as well as a family history.

We insignificantly just like their coffee still and offer you the chance to try it our way...