Giamaica Brazilian coffee, whole bean (Santos Montecarmelo Caffe) 500 g.

Giamaica Brazilian coffee, whole bean (Santos Montecarmelo Caffe) 500 g. Reviews

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Giamaica Brazilian coffee, whole bean (Santos Montecarmelo Caffe) 500 g. Feature

• Gianni Frasi is one of Italy's premier coffee roasters.
• Frasi produces in the same traditions as his uncle, who started the business in 1947.
• Frasi believes in small productions, and makes as much coffee in a year as Starbuck's makes in a day.

Gianni Frasi is one of Italy's premier coffee roasters. He learned the coffee business from his uncle, Giovanni Erbisti, who began roasting coffee in his 1,500-foot apartment in 1947. Believing that too dark a roast masks the subtleties and fine aromas of a top-quality bean, Erbisti insisted on roasting coffee to the color of a tunica di monaco, a monk's tunic. Anything darker, he claimed, was burnt.

Today, Frasi continues his uncle's coffeemaking tradition in the same small shop in Verona, making as much coffee in a year as Starbucks makes in a day. Frasi and his dad work side-by-side, monitoring each batch of coffee as it roasts slowly in his uncle's original fire-engine-red roaster. Fanatical about quality, Frasi flies down to South America every year to personally select the beans used to make his unparalleled coffee. Giamaica Caffe is used in Italy's finest restaurants.

Named after the mountain in the Santos region of Brazil, this coffee is grown at an altitude of 700 metres in dry sandy soil to produce a fine full-bodied brew with good acidity and a noticable sweet, chocolate-like finish.

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May 10, 2011 12:15:06