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I purchased this coffee for my mother for Mother's Day and she called to tell me the beans were old and dry, there was no aroma and when she attempted to make a pot of coffee, it had absolutely no taste at all. If I could rate it at ZERO stars, I would.
I was disappointed because I didn't pay attention to the quantity of the coffee. I feel it's way overpriced for the very little coffee you get. Two ounces of coffee for $8 is not a fair price.
The Wallenford Estate tends to be one of the better roasts of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. (I find the Mad City roast to be slightly superior, but it is not available on Amazon). There are some barbarians in my local area who believe that extreme dark roast is popular, so they do this ultra scorch job on Jamaican Blue Mountain. Wallenford Estate delivers promptly and withou any fuss.
You're not getting the real thing. Try it black with a small amount of sugar. This coffee is absolutely amazing. worth every penny. This coffee doesn't need to be cut by anything. I've tried this through the coffee pot (using permanent gold filter) and through french press and it's absolutely wonderful. I usually like mine with cream and sugar and with this cup I didn't need either.
Someone suggested cutting this coffee with Kona. Don't get a BLEND do not, do not buy a blend. Excellent. Sweet, nutty, fruity, everything it's made out to be. Such a wonderful cup of coffee. Wrong, wrong, wrong. It stands up on its own and if your friends didn't notice any difference in the coffee they were driking you either a) made it wrong, or b) have friends with little to no taste buds.
For ourselves, we didn't find anything but flatness in this. Purhcased this for Christmas Dinner and shared with family. Usually everyone enjoys our coffee but no one, not a one, commented on this brew (which isn't a good thing). Got nothing back and that's not good. We have used other Blue Mountain coffees and love it. We ground the beans right before roasting, tried a few different racios and realized that you need an extra amount of coffee per cup to give it flavor.
We're going to try that out. No rave reviews from anyone. It might be good to cut this with Kona. Flavor is what we're after as coffee people but, this fell short of the rave reviews on Amazon. We never told anyone at Christmas Dinner about the coffee so we would get a "clean" report. This is far too expensive to throw out so we have to find a way to enjoy it.
We do NOT recommend this particular coffee.
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