Belle Espresso, the award winning espresso from Coffee Klatch Roasting, receives another award.  FastCompany Magazine names Coffee Klatch Belle Espresso one of the “12 Best Cups of Coffee of 2006” and was the only espresso blend to make the exclusive list.  The Belle Espresso by Coffee Klatch is the blend developed for and used by Heather Perry when she won the Western Regional Barista Championship in 2006. 

Belle Espresso, scored as the highest rated espresso blend ever with a ‘94’ by cupping taste guru Keneth Davids* of coffeereview.com.  Davids described the espresso by Coffee Klatch Roasting as: “Intense aroma: brandy, chocolate, caramel. In the small cup medium in body but smooth in mouthfeel, crisply pungent yet caramelly sweet, with a tightly knit, understated complexity: brandy, caramel, cedar and flowers, hints of which persist in the roundly rich finish. Masters milk with a gentle, brandied chocolate authority”.  For his tasting Ken tried 40 espresso’s and rated over 30.  A search of the coffeereview web site found 176 reviews for espresso with the Belle Espresso on top.

Coffee Klatch Roastmaster Mike Perry describes the Belle Espresso as a multi blend featuring both an Indonesian Sumatra and an Indian Malabar for body, a Guatemalan Hue Hey for sweetness, plus a Yellow Bourbon Brazil for even more sweetness and crema.  Of course the bean featured in this blend is an Ethiopian Natural Yirgachefe that adds the citrus you would expect from a Yirgachefe and wonderful fruit you might not.   

All of the Klatch’s coffee can be ordered by phone at 877-4 KLATCH or from the website: www.klatchroasting.com    

*Kenneth Davids, coffee expert, and author, is co-founder of The Coffee Review. He regularly contributes a feature called Cupping with Ken Davids, which reviews roasters' coffees and rates them using the Coffee Review proprietary 100-point rating system.  
 

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