India Ratnagiri Estate AB

The ground coffee smelled of roasted Spanish peanut, with cane sugar hint in the lighter City roast level, with more caramelized sugar, milk chocolate and peanut brittle at a more medium roast (City+/Full City). Tree nuts, almond/almond butter, are dominant in the wet aroma, with a bittersweet note of Ghirardelli drinking chocolate. Lighter roasts foreground the almond butter roast taste, paired well with thick dense body. The acidity is low, but nutty tones fill in to give the cup a higher tonal range than expected. There's a malt sugar sweetness, which can be a bit grainy if the coffee is under-roasted. City+ and Full City is very pleasant, as cocoa bittering tones come into play pairing well with the roasted almond. This is what we mean by positive roast taste, hard to pin down but you know it when you taste it! It makes this a really pleasant drinking coffee, and gives it a lot of versatility in terms of brewed coffee and also as espresso.