Coffee Blends

Light Roast
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Allegro Blend

Aromatic, bright and sweet.

To those familiar with classical music, Allegro is a term used to describe tempo that is brisk and lively. These upbeat qualities also perfectly embody our signature blend, which is all about peppy and powerful fruit-tinged acidity. Acidity – or brightness – refers to the lively, palate cleansing quality that makes high grown coffees taste so much better than the ones grown down-slope. It's that little kiss of fruit that also makes a fine white wine taste great.

Medium Roast
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Café Blend™

Lush body, deep and rich.

This wonderful after dinner blend is a favorite with many fine restaurants. Roasted to a Vienna-style deep chestnut brown with oils just blooming on the beans. It has big bold body to appease Indonesian coffee fans, yet it is balanced with crisp, clear flavors of high mountain Central American beans.

Light Roast
  • Rainforest Alliance
  • USDA Organic
  • Whole Trade

Organic Breakfast Blend

Notes of citrus, apricot, milk chocolate, and caramel.

Selva Negra Estate, a farm Allegro has partnered with since the early 90's, provides the base for our Organic Breakfast Blend. One third of Selva Negra is reserved as virgin forest, one third is for shade grown coffee and the remaining third for other projects including a rotating herding system, organic horticulture, worm composting, and an organic mushroom project which will provide an additional food source for workers on the farm. In addition to Selva Negra, we blend with an Ethiopian coffee called Moredocofe, one of the few Rainforest Alliance coffees in Ethiopia. Allegro has been purchasing from this beautifully forested farm for three years. This combination of beans creates a lively blend, bursting with citrus, apricot, milk chocolate, and caramel notes.

Light Roast
  • Rainforest Alliance
  • Whole Trade

Rainforest Blend

Sweet aromas of cocoa and toasted almonds balanced with a mild citrus sparkle and a long caramel finish.

Our Rainforest Blend combines beans from three farms in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. These farms follow the tenets of Rainforest Alliance certification. This certification includes superior housing and schools for the workers on the farm; ecological farming practices, like manual weeding and shade trees; and the reuse of farming bi-products like converting coffee mucilage into bio-gas to run the worker's kitchen's, and composting the coffee cherry for use as fertilizer for the coffee.

Medium Roast
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Mocha Java

Deep berry and spice undertones and a rich syrupy body.

Lush and syrupy with notes of black cherry, chocolate, and sweet spices. The world's first coffee blend was a combination of Arabian beans (shipped through the now defunct port of Moka) in the present day country of Yemen and beans from the old East Indies colony of Java in Indonesia. In our classic interpretation of this ancient blend we use generous amounts of exotic, fruit-tinged East African and Arabian coffees mixed with syrupy and spicy beans from Indonesia.

Dark Roast
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Extra Dark French

Intense and smoky.

If we roasted these beans any darker they would burst into flames. Literally. As our darkest coffee, it is roasted to a deep, black-purple color — at which point the beans lose around 25% of their original weight. In order to roast to this over-the-top degree, we must start with super dense beans from some of the world's highest growing regions.

Light Roast
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Masai Blend

Exotic, bright, citrus notes.

Bright and bursting with exotic nuances of blackberry, red currant, apricot, lemon-rind, and jasmine. The mouthwatering bouquet and fruity zing of Masai Blend are characteristic of only the finest washed East African Arabica beans. The tantalizing bouquet and fruity zing of these coffees remind us — as no other does — that coffee is, in fact, the product of a fruit tree.

Medium-Dark Roast
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Vail Blend™

Dark, hearty, sweet.

We created this hearty blend in hopes of enticing even the most dedicated of skiers off the mountain. We use our first-rate American and Pacific Rim beans, roasted quite darkly, as the base for this coffee. It's heavy and rich, but with no burnt flavor. To this we add Sumatra for its herbal earthiness and body and French Roast for its smoky savor.

Medium Roast
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Vienna Roast

Rich and smooth.

A blend of beans from Central America roasted to the ideal degree to highlight sweetness and accentuate body. This smooth mid-range roast is great anytime of day.

 

Dark Roast
  • Fair Trade
  • USDA Organic
  • Whole Trade

Organic French Roast

Sweet, smoky and smooth.

In 2008 we established new relationships with three co-ops in the town of San Ignacio, Peru called Aprocasi, Chirinos, and Frontera. Farmers in San Ignacio enthusiastically adhere to an integrated system of farming that allows for no chemicals to be used. They say, "If you use a chemical to kill a pest, then you also kill its predator, thus killing the entire ecosystem." The monies they receive from their Fair Trade premium go to social programs and technical farm support.

Medium-Light Roast
  • Africa and Arabia
  • Jane Goodall

African Blend

Deep and syrupy with notes of maple, golden raisin, and black mission fig.

This stunning blend highlights four of the great coffee producing countries in East Africa. The beans are sourced from the Burundi Vuvu, Rwanda Karaba,Tanzania Kanyovu, and Ethiopia Titira co-ops and are carefully roasted to develop great depth of flavor and syrupy body.

Medium-Dark Roast
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Europa Blend

Full-bodied with rich finish.

A blend of seductive caramel sweetness intermixed with earthy tones of wild mushrooms and a deep luscious body. This is an intricate "post-roast" blend of beans from the Americas and Pacific Rim that has been roasted to create a coffee of great depth and nuance. This means we first roast a base blend of our finest American coffees and after roasting, we blend in earthy single origin coffees from the Pacific Rim. This style of blending ensures a combination of flavor that is complex and nuanced.

Light and Dark Roast Blend
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  • USDA Organic

Organic Whole Foods Blend

Spicy, sweet, smoky.

Spicy, sweet and smoky. This is a blend based on contrast. We take a light roasted base blend of high mountain Latin American beans and to that add some of our Pacific Rim influenced French Roast to create a coffee that is as distinctive in taste as it is in appearance. 

Medium Roast
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Red Sea Blend

Spicy, sweet, smoky.

Exotic and complex with notes of dried cherry, strawberry, tobacco, nutmeg and fragrant wood. Like our Masai Blend, this coffee is exotic, but more accurately Red Sea is primal and wild. This fruity and wild intermingling pays homage to the greatness of Arabica coffee's birthplace, Ethiopia. We blend naturally sun-dried coffees from the motherland's many diverse growing regions.