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THREE GOLD STARS, GREAT TASTE AWARDS 2021
"perfect balance..." "fruity with cherries and red fruits ..." "glorious..." "long, long finish..." "transported to coffee heaven" Amazing. The most coveted accolade; three gold stars at the Great Taste Awards. The judges described it as follows: Great Taste Judges: "Balanced. Fruity with cherries and a basketful of red fruits that fill the mouth in a glorious fashion. Clever roasting - all separately, all the same level of roast. This delivers perfect balance and a long, long finish and when milk was added, we found ourselves transported to coffee heaven. Such skilled blending into a coffee that will always please." "There's an excellent light touch here with the different profiles working well together to produce a delicious, light fruity note. Milk rounds off all the flavours beautifully." Torero is a serious coffee. It's exceptionally good. The flavour is REALLY big and immediate, it's strong in caffeine and it's delicious any way you serve it. This is a darker roast than any other Dreambeans blend, so be ready for a change if you're used to our medium roasts. It might take you a little while to adjust. Whether you drink it black, white, espresso or long, Torero always delivers its flavour. If the truth be told, we based this coffee on the espresso we used to drink al banco in a fantastic little bar in Milan when a friend lived there years ago. It's a long time ago now but the flavour was so memorable we blended, cupped and tasted until we got it right. Torero is so full of flavour that we use a little less coffee per cup than with other Dreambeans blends. We reduced the dose from 18g to 16g in our espresso machines and we use a little less in a French press or Moka Pot. Be prepared to play around a little with this to find the sweet spot for your taste. It's worth doing. -
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Two Gold Stars, Great Taste Awards
Jaggy Loko is a very special coffee. Don't take our word for it, the judges at the Great Taste Awards, the most prestigious of all coffee awards gave it two gold stars in 2019, saying: "Good looking beans, individual varieties seem to have been roasted separately. We tasted it as espresso then with milk and the rich fruitiness is suddenly developed. Such a good chocolatey, malted biscuit finish. You set out to create a great flat white and that's exactly what you've done." The inspiration for Jaggy Loko came when we found its primary constituent, a lovely rich dark Colombian with the longest finish we’ve seen in a long time. A broker from The Hague tipped us off to a small consignment and we snapped it up straight away. We have since secured a regular supply of this lovely bean. We rounded out the top notes with a very smooth Sumatran Mandheling to counteract its tendency towards astringency and added some big high-grown Brazilian beans to make it more amenable to milk. Touches of Honduran and Mexican Arabicas complete the picture. It's a terrific coffee and a great favourite for many of our customers. -
Sweet, smooth and strong, gourmet coffee blend
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Sweet Sorrento won two gold stars in the 2018 Great Taste Awards. The judge's commentary was: “Lovely crema and very light, silky and refined without milk. Add the milk and the caramel sweetness sits on your tongue giving warm chocolate notes. A silky tongue filler.” Sweet Sorrento is smooth and sweet with a pleasing bite in the finish. On the nose it is smooth, rich and sweet but in the cup, the smoothness is complimented by a subtle caffeine kick towards the end. The bite comes late in the taste notes, adding considerable length to the finish and letting the flavour linger in your mouth for a few seconds longer. Despite its smooth taste, Sweet Sorrento is relatively strong in caffeine, making it a very versatile blend, ideal as either a morning or evening coffee. -
Two Gold Stars Great Taste Awards 2025
"a bolder body that allows the acidic integrity of the coffee and a rich milky chocolate note. A delicious coffee that's intelligent and unexpected." "This has a sweet fruity nose and brown sugar sweetness that is balanced and elegant on the palate." "This is clever coffee, and a combination of great crafting and cunning flavour harmonies." "a great tasting blend and beautifully crafted. Milk marries all the qualities together, giving a balanced and refined taste." Cinco Jalisco has bags of flavour and good caffeine levels to kickstart your day. There is plenty of body and great balance bite but no bitterness. It's very good with milk and it's also great black, either as an espresso or Americano. We love its big flavour and the lovely bite. It takes a lot of tasting and roasting to get the balance right between bite and mouthfeel but when you get it right it's fantastic. Like all Dreambeans coffee, you can drink it as strong as you like without ever crossing the line into bitterness. The caffeine hit is a welcome bonus first thing in the morning or when you need a mid-afternoon boost. The Great Taste Awards judges notes are here in full: "This has a sweet fruity nose and brown sugar sweetness that is balanced and elegant on the palate. Adding milk pulls through a lychee sweetness and adds a bolder body that allows the acidic integrity of the coffee and a rich milky chocolate note. A delicious coffee that's intelligent and unexpected." "This has good consistent condition and level of roasting on the beans. The grind held chocolate, biscuit and nuts. Tried black first, we found the aroma to agree with the flavour, balanced and full and very tasty indeed. Then with milk, all of the previous is enhanced with richness and texture. This is clever coffee, and a combination of great crafting and cunning flavour harmonies." "This coffee has an acidic bright character upfront. There is complexity in this combination of origins, a great tasting blend and beautifully crafted. Milk marries all the qualities together, giving a balanced and refined taste. A really enjoyable product and cleverly put together." "Big notes of muscovado and tropical fruits are present for this well-balanced coffee that has gentle acidity and good balance. We feel this is very approachable,an excellent blend.... We actually preferred it black, where the profile was more prominent." We couldn't have put it better ourselves! -
Beautiful balance with decent bite and citrus topnotes
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Great Taste Award Winner 2021
High Segovia won a Great Taste Award in 2021. The judges praised the "lovely inviting aroma" and "thick crema" saying it was "very bright to begin with" and that it has "interesting flavours in the finish". We're delighted to add this award for High Segovia to our growing list of accolades. The backbone of this coffee is a beautiful strictly high grown (SHG) bean grown high in the mountains of Segovia, Nicaragua. These bright, hard beans create a delicious citrus fruity topnote that softens into an almond-nougat sweetness in the finish. The smoothness of High Segovia is typical of these slow growing beans from the high altitudes of the Dipilto mountains but the crisp acidity of this batch is untypical. This acidity gives the coffee a very satisfying bite and kick, without ever crossing the line into bitterness. We added a really good Brazilian Bourbon to this blend, to open up the flavour profile and allow it to cut through the creaminess if you drink it with milk.
