Oh, and here is another 'Copy 'n Paste' for you to enjoy ... 😉
Several roastmasters and green buyers submitted samples of "partnership" coffees, coffees that represent an ongoing relationship between roasting company and growers from a particular farm, mill, or cooperative.
Among them, the most unusual was an offering from a farm in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador roasted by Flying Goat Coffee of Healdsburg, California. Rather than simply constituting another coffee curiosity, the Galapagos turned out to be as interesting and distinctive in the cup as it is in its geography. Its cup character would seem to derive from the heirloom Bourbon variety of arabica, a classic cultivar once widely planted throughout Latin America and now growing rare owing to its susceptibility to disease and other agricultural drawbacks.
Perhaps because the remote island location has protected the trees from the diseases that have killed Bourbon trees elsewhere, the crop is apparently entirely from very old, well-established Bourbon trees. The age of the trees may be responsible for the very pronounced Bourbon character, a character that is as memorable as it is difficult to describe.
Here is my best shot at description as it appears in the review: "... a dry fruit character that suggests wine at one moment, at another tart berries, at another pipe tobacco, at still another a roasty but sweet chocolate."
