Green Mountain Coffee Review and Giveaway

Green Mountain Coffee Review and Giveaway

We received an Organic Sampler from Green Mountain Coffee. The sampler consisted of 3 bags:  Fair Trade Organic Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Fair Trade Organic French Roast and Fair Trade Organic Sumatran Reserve.

I started off with the Ethiopian blend. Opening the package alone was an experience. The rich aroma is dominated by a pungent cedar sensation with a caramelly chocolate sweetness and a hint of flowers. It was rich but not overbearing and it finished very clean, not lingering like some. It is a light roast, I really enjoyed this one. It is a coffee I could enjoy at any time. Ethiopian Yirgacheffe ranks paramount in the company of the best of African coffee

Ethiopian Yirgachaffe aromatic coffee has easily has become one of the worlds most sought after specialty coffees. With a soft, fragrant, flowery note and a lingering intensified finish; it boasts a sweet, rich, smooth bodied flavor.

Taking special interest in what will soon emerge as Ethiopia Yirgacheffe coffee, the beans are visually selected and then hand picked. Recognizing that single branches deliver blossoms, green fruit and ripe cherries simultaneously, it is imperative to pick only the ripe, quality cherries for the premium quality coffee. This means that the family that works the terraced hectares, will have to make approximately three passes within the year, through the same plot to make sure all of the beans have been picked at their peak. Pickers can pick an average of 200lbs of ripe cherries in one day. After processing, that same 200lbs will yield about 50lbs of green bean.

Why is that important? Because Green Mountain Coffee is a concientious company and their coffee is certified organically grown and Fair Trade, meaning it was purchased from small-holding farmers at a "fair" or economically sustainable price. This helps the economy, tremendously.

The Traditional French Roast was actually to be expected. French roast has become the accepted term among North-American roasters to describe the darkest possible style of roast. A very dark roast yields a deep, smoky, charred-wood aroma with remote hints of caramel and roasted nut. Medium-body, smooth mouthfeel, with gentle charred wood notes dominating the flavor and carrying into the finish. When you swallow a sip of this coffee, you know you've had coffee. This one has great character. Great for mornings. French roast creates the darkest beans, with an extremely bold and smoky flavor and the Green Mountain Coffee variety delivers. 

Next was the Sumatran Reserve. This coffee is a true success story, for us, and for the people in and around Aceh Province, Sumatra. Sumatra is one of the world's more exotic coffee destinations, peopled by folks of tremendous character… character they've demonstrated again and again by their enduring spirit and resourcefulness in the face of one calamitous natural disaster after another. That character can be read in the coffee, as well, which is richly aromatic, lush, hefty, loamy and distinctly tropical. It is round and smooth in body and offers a hint of chocolate, dark fruit and citrus. Upon tasting, it has a rich, sweet-toned aroma: flowers, hints of earth, aromatic wood, nut-toned chocolate. In the cup low-toned but vibrant acidity, silky mouthfeel, continued earth tones that take on a grapefruit-like pungency under the impact of the acidity. Some continuing hints of flowers and nut. Rich, simple finish with a hint of astringency.

Green Mountain Coffee is exquisite. It is respectful. It is conscious. If I were to order coffee anywhere, it would be Green Mountain. They are concerned about the environment and the economy. The coffee is absolutely fantastic. 

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Giveaway ends 7/31/10

I was provided this sampler at no charge to review. No other compensation was given. I was in no way influenced by a free product; my opinions remain my own.