If you are an existing Londinium customer you will know that we’re no fan of many African coffees when deployed as single origin espresso. Oh, but it’s floral they shriek, failing to mention the tea-like expression of the tannins, with vile notes of camel back lurking in the background. Filter? yes. Espresso? no! Fashionable it may be, but its got a whiff of the Emperor’s new clothes about it if you ask us.
Those of you close to us will know how many different bags we have purchased on the strength of ringing endorsements from brokers only to deem them unfit for espresso. You will be astounded to learn that we have finally found an Ethiopian coffee that we are absolutely bowled over with as a single espresso.
This is the first African coffee to make the grade in a long time. It is imperative that you let it rest for 16 days to enjoy it in the way that we have. Any younger and it tastes like the pressings from the neighbour’s flower garden. The roast profile we have developed for this coffee gives you the complexity that you find in single origin espresso so infrequently. Rarer still, the wonderful array of tastes in the cup don’t clash, they are in harmony, and the overall taste is not overbearing.
This harmony is the elusive element that we have struggled to find in the past and now we have it for you.
The espresso coffee you need to start 2012 with is our natural processed Ethiopian Amaro Gayo roast.
This coffee on a lever machine takes you somewhere close to nirvana.
