Good well rounded fair trade Coffee (Lavazza Tierra Coffee)

Member Name: Stephen Patrick

Product:	Lavazza Tierra Coffee
Date:	09/06/08 (84 review reads)
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Advantages: A good all round coffee, environmentally friendly

Disadvantages: A little bit more expensive

This is the third type of Lavazza coffee I've tried, and the only one of the three to be sold in a tin. A tin is always a bonus as it makes storing the coffee properly easier. This coffee is marketed as a fair trade brand, and is grown in a stable rain forest alliance certified scheme, being a mixture of beans from 3 locations. It is also meant to benefit the growers more, with the manufacturing being sustainable, using solar powered equipment, and giving the growers a proper income. Well, that may be all well and good, but the taste of the coffee matters too, and Lavazza have seen to it that it is very nice. The coffee is 100% arabica beans, as well as being 100% from sustainable certified plantations. The strength of the coffee I would say is more or less medium strength, and there is a certain sweetness that seems to come through after the initial richness. This should suit all coffee drinkers, and is equally suited to being made in an espresso machine or filter machine, or whatever else you might use. I have tried it in my espresso machine and in a cafetiere, and it made a nice cup in each, with a decent amount of crema on the espresso. As for price, I think it was £2.99, but was on offer at the time, normally being £3.99 or thereabouts I think, and it is a 250 gramm tin. This is maybe a touch more expensive, at its full price, than the other Lavazza brand coffees that I have tried, but is perhaps worth that little extra if you are into the whole environmental thing.

Summary: A good coffee