Dominica Ramon Rodoriguez

Beans:  Ramon Rodoriguez
Roaster: Beans Tei 
Roast: Medium
Area: Juncalito, Santiago province,Altura, El Cibao, Dominican Republic
                   Ramon Rodriguez Estate
Altitude: 1200m
Variety: Caturra、Typica
Grade:  N/A
Screen:  N/A
Processing method: Wet

 【Impression】
Light Citrus as a top note on crispy Oats like aroma, Nutty and Chocolaty sweetness with hazelnuts like spicy flavor, medium body, light touch refreshing bitterness as aftertaste.  A tint of  lemony acidity touches shortly on top, mild and mellow layer of sweetness stays as core flavor.
Black is recommended to enjoy this flavor-full and well-balanced cup with a piece of  Marron glacé. 

This beans expresses full characteristics of Cibao Altura coffee, lower acidity and higher quality contributed by higher altitude with  ample rainfall.  The Dominican Specialty coffee are generally known as full body, moderate to light acidity, rich aroma, and earthy tones, and, of all these, Cibao Altura coffee has much less acidity to emphasize rich mellow flavor.   




【Note: Dominican Coffee】
The main varietal grown in Dominican Republic is the Typica, about 90%, and the Arabica, about 10%, including Bourbon, Catuai, Caturra, and Mundo Novo, a hybrid of Caturra.  The Dominican Coffee retains and exhibits characteristics of classic caribbean coffees, well-balanced, among all others such as Jamaican and Puerto Rican, which due to processing methods.  
Dominican Republic is on the list of one of the finest coffee country which produces CEO specialty beans from established seven growing areas:  Cibao, Barahona, Noroeste, Neyba, Sierra Sur, Sierra Occidental, and Sierra Central.  In those areas, coffee tends to elevate acidity with altitudes.   Basically, the Dominican beans are composed with full-bodied, rich aroma, earthy spice flavor, and mild to light acidity varied by growing altitudes.   

Ethiopia

Beans: Ethiopia 
Roaster: Iwashi Coffee, Kyoto


This was the choice of the day by the owner/roaster on Jan. 15.


Lemony aroma, very light and smooth, nutty, matured sweetness as a top, clear bitterness lay underneath, seer bitter-sweetness as a   short lasting aftertaste.  Fruity, Well-balanced flavor.  Finely  polished pearly sweetness and mildness with moderate chocolaty sweetness.


With a very little information given about this coffee beans, following are assumptions from its flavor/aroma: Sidamo, washed, Medium roast...perhaps, by 5KG German gas roaster.

Iwashi Coffee

Iwashi Coffee in Kyoto.

Friend of mine told me to go there for some reason, so I walked to there along Nishi-oji St..

For "real" coffee lovers, I recommend this roaster with maybe the same reason as my friend's!


Iwashi Coffee is very small coffee roaster which has one big table with 4 to 6 seats.  We certainly enjoy a cup, Hand-brewed, there.

Amazingly, a cup of freshly hand brewed, flavorful and aroma-ful, coffee only costs us JPY200!!


As "Coffee geek" roasters always do, this roaster has series of coffee goods, hand grinders, pots, hand-brew goods and so on.


There are several freshly roasted coffee beans, JPY500/100g.