Here again:cafe de corazón.
Located in Nishi-jin, Kyoto, cafe de corazón is a homey style neighborhood coffee roaster and cafe.
The owner roaster has trained at "Cafe Bach", Minami-senjyu, owned by a legendary coffee meister/roaster Mamoru Taguchi, and inherited a roasting machine customized specially for Bach roasting.
Cafe de corazón offers specialty coffee with various roasting degrees, whose flavor is very clean and clear. The owner definitely has his opinion. He may not verbalize, but he quietly expresses and concentrates in a cup. There are freshly baked home made pastries offered with coffee. For me, they are rather pricey but has decent flavor with selected ingredients. The flavor of coffee are gradually blending right in with the location and the owner, Masaru Kawaguchi.
Beans: corazón blend
Roaster: cafe de corazón
Roasting degree: Medium
【Impression】
Medium dark, cacao, chocolate aroma as top note, scented w/ citrus, lemon peel, smoky, watery, tangy bitterness followed by dates sugar like vague sweetness, smokey bitterness as a long lasting aftertaste.
Beans: Haiti
Roaster: cafe de corazón
Roasting degree: City
【Impression】
Medium light to medium, high tone, lime like acidity, fruity aroma as to note, roasted soy beans like nutty aroma hidden, dark chocolate, citric, lemon peel as the last note, medium light body, well balanced bitterness and sweetness, juicy, mellow, clear, pure, flat bitterness, fine sweetness as fruit sugar, touch of orange sweetness, transparent, juicy clearness and thin layer of bitterness as a long lasting aftertaste.
Nice combination with adzuki bean jam sweetened with Muscovado sugar.
【Note】
Non coffee lover might like this coffee and this roaster. Very pure and clear flavor, light tone of sourness follows flat juiciness. Green beans are well filtered, sorted screen size.
Following is just my assumption:
Beans: Mar Blanche
Varietal: 100% Typica
Process: Washed
Slip into an alley and look carefully. The shop blends itself quietly with surroundings.
Located in the middle of quiet residential area in historical Nishijin, Kyoto, "cafe de corazón" is a small and cozy hideaway from noisy outside.
Although this shop named itself "cafe", its atmosphere is "coffeehouse", where quiet and cozy to face "coffee".
Masaru Kawaguchi, owner of "cafe de corazón" has graduated from cafe Bach, Minami-senjyu Tokyo, and open his own coffee roastery here in Kyoto. There are a lot sign of Bach all over the cafe, blended Mr. Kawaguchi's own atmosphere.
Beans are selected from Specialty line. His blend coffee taste very much carry Bach DNA, but feels darker than his master, Mr. Taguchi.
