Old 5

 

Beans: OLD 5, Blend
     Aged-bean & new crop
Roaster: Cocktail-do
Roasting Grade: French

【Comment  from roaster】
Blend of Columbia, Brazil, Guatemala, added to Base Blend, S.P.MIX. S.P.MIX is the blend of highly matured beans, that recipe has been kept as the highest secret since Cocktail-Do was established and allowed only to the Master blenders.  Old 5 is Cocktail-Do’s the most popular and longest selling blend coffee. 

【Impression】
Well established, dark and full body coffee.  Creamy and silky, texture with harmonized bitterness and sweetness like Belgium Chocolate.  No sourness detected even a cup got cold…  Taste like “cognac”, if I compare this coffee to alcoholic drinks, while fresh beans like beer.  This aromatic coffee brings soothing, wonderful aromatic comfort, but I prefer to save this to the last, special moment.

For some people, this coffee might be too dark to drink as black....  It may taste good with milk and sugar, but my recommendation is to add a little amount of hot water to make your cup thinner and serve with something very very sweet and rich items, Sachertorte, Vienna’s Chocolate cake.

Mundo Novo drid on tree ~ Tomio Fukuda

Beans: Mundo Novo, dried on coffee trees
Farm: Wash type: semi-washed
Roaster: Koruri-coffee
Roasting degree : Full city
Farm： Fazenda Bau, Tomio Fukuda Farm
Area of cultivation： Patos de Minas, Cerrado, Brazil
Spices： Mundo Novo
         (Natural matching of native Brazil Bourbon with Indonesia
          Sumatora.)
Altitude： 1100m



【Note from Web】
Patos de Minas has significantly defined dry-season and wet-season in Cerrado area, which is the most desirable environment for coffee cultivation. Mundo Novo Dried on Tree is grown and blessed with this wonderful environment.
As its name shows, Mondo Novo is fully ripened and dried on tree, nourished and sweetened, before harvesting. Harvested coffee cherries are stored and matured in TULHA, a wooden storage, for 45 days without sun-dry process, which enhances sweetness of dried on tree cherries.

【Impression】
Impressive aroma and sweetness. Dark and clear/light sweetness with a tip of bitterness, but clear after taste.　Flavorful, well balanced/harmonized bitterness, sweetness, aftertaste without sourness. Full and rich fragrance!


Good for afternoon coffee. For food pairing, Almond tuiles, thin, crispy, flavorful and light taste, but not too sweet almond cookies, is recommended. Heavy sweets, such as cakes with whip cream or full flavor American cookies may kill coffee flavor.

This beans soon became one my favorite and regular.  Now, there is 2kg of green beans sitting, ready to be roasted.  Depending on a roaster, this beans dramatically changes its taste, especially degree of sweetness. 

Mild Blend

Name: Mild Blend

    Columbia based, Guatemara and Blazil.

Roasting Grade: Medium roast
Roaster: Cocktail-Do

【Roaster's Comment】
ColumbiaBased, Guatemara and Blazil origin beans blended.  Adding medium-roast green beans, a cup gains flavorful, rich body.

【Impression】  Moderate, well balanced mild coffee.  Richer and more flavor for roasting grade.   Mille-feuille like layer of different flavors, sweetness, light bitterness and tint of sourness, harmonize to develop richness in body.  Wonderful morning cup, but less impact as OLD COFFEE.  For light-taste coffee, such as Peru, lovers, this cup will bring different impression and might stimulate curiosity for old beans.               

If you have certain expectation to tour Aged/OLD Coffee World, I recommend to pick something else rather than this blend coffee.  To be honest, there is nothing can be comapred with coffees at Cafe de L'ambre...I believe, although, as this empty bag shows, this beans were gone quickly enough to prove how good they were :)     

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Coffee Sampler from Cocktail-do Coffee, Torano-mon Tokyo.

Since the first encounter of, so called, OLD COFFEE at CAFE DE L'MBRE, the endless adventure of OLD/AGED coffee began.

Cocktail-do is one of few old coffee speciality, which owns a stockhouse in Yamanashi prefecture for aging/roasting.

Unlike CAFE DE L'MBRE, Cocktail-do's "AGING" seems shorter according to web-site.

The beans are aged for "several 10-months", which, I assume, makes their coffee beans "daily-use-price".

Basic question: what is OLD COFFEE?

It will be up-dated in later articles...after I taste these beans :)

Gran Delval

Name: Gran Delval
Roaster: Tetsunori Todoroki, Todoroki Coffee
Roasting grade: Full City
Area of Production： Boquete, Republic of Panama
Variety: 100% Arabica

Rain forest alliance approved.

【Roaster's Comment】
Gran Delval is Characterized by Aroma of Almonds and Sweetness of Chocolates.

【Impression】
Large size beans!  Aromatic, sweet and nutty, and clean taste.  Light, clear body clean cup, very aromatic, sweet and sound, with good balance and medium acidity.

Brazil Daterra Estate RA

Name: Brazil  Daterra Estate
Roasting degree: Dark
Roaster: Todoroki Coffee
Area of production:
    Patrocínio, State of Minas Gerais (18°56′S 46°59′W)

Grade: N/A
Screen: 16～18up
Altitude: 1,000～1,100m
Processing: Pulped Natural, Sun&Machine Dry
Variety: Caturra,Bourbon,Achaia etc.

【Comment From Roaster】
This coffee is caracterized by full flavor and sweetness.
Dark roast is recommended.

【Imoression】

This is THE Brazilian Coffee.  Aromatic, well balanced flavor with nutty sweetness as the base, medium & Mild body, silky smooth texture.   Sweetness with a touch of sourness and bitterness makes sensitive harmony,  sweetness stays longer as aftertaste.

Peru Organic

Beans: Peru Organic
Roasting degree: Semi-dark
Roaster: Todoroki Coffee
Production:  Cenfrocafe
Area of production: Cajamarca, Peru
Screen/Grade: N/A
Altitude: 1,500～2,000m
Processing: Washed, Sun-dry
Variety: Typica, Bourbon
Yr of cultivation: 2009/2010
Rainforest Alliance/Organic JAS Certified

Cenfrocafe is the cooperative formed by over 2,100 small suze coffee farmers and organizations.

【Comment from WEB】
Fruity, Full body with sweetness of berries often listed as an caracter of high-grown coffee.

【Impression】

Creamy texture, clear, light body, ripe Cassis like well-matured flavor with sharp aftertaste.  A touch of lemony sourness grows as second flavor.

Blewing with Coffee Press, taste gains little heavier flavor of Cacao beans, La Flora, Hyacinth like aroma.