Caffe Oggi

The mix­ture of beans from dif­fer­ent cor­ners of the world in com­par­i­son with a straight or sin­gle ori­gin cof­fee, which is cof­fee from one region. Blend can be of the same roast or at dif­fer­ent roasts to cre­ate desired fla­vor. His­tor­i­cally, blend orig­i­nated from the need to cre­ate var­i­ous “fla­vors.” Blend­ing beans was devel­oped in early cof­fee drink­ing his­tory to work around the lim­ited roast­ing knowl­edge and facil­ity in pre-industrialization. Blend is also impor­tant in com­pen­sat­ing each year’s crop vari­abil­ity to keep the fla­vor consistent. […]

Cof­fee beans from one loca­tion, region or coun­try. It could be as spe­cific as to refer to a sin­gle farm, estate or co-op. Cof­fee Beans taste dif­fer­ent based on where they grow; the species of cof­fee tree, the types of soil, the cli­mate and alti­tude of the plan­ta­tion all make a dif­fer­ence. Though har­vest­ing skills, pro­cess­ing, and roast — all human fac­tors — effect the taste, it always comes down to nat­ural fac­tors when we try to eval­u­ate the indi­vid­ual char­ac­ter­is­tics of cof­fee beans. Hence, the coun­try name, plus the region within it, are quite enough to explain how the cof­fee should taste. […]