KONA CAFÉ, REVIEWS AND DESCRIPTIONS

Kona Coffee Cherries
Kona Coffee Cherries

Two reviews add their positive appraisal of our Kona Café.

In their Summer Selections section of the Coffee Review in August, 2010, Ken Davids and Ted Sachura of the prestigious Coffee Review, single our Kona Café estate coffee in their paragraph about Kona coffee, calling it the "classic Kona:" The overall score was 89.

"Those who buy Konas for the cup as well as for the name alone should recognize the classic Kona type in the Kona Café 100% Kona Medium Roast reviewed here…. A sensitive medium-dark roast develops these virtues well in the Kona Café sample, emphasizing the chocolate tendencies of the fruit."

You can read the article about our coffee and the summer selections at the Coffee Review.

The judges at the Hawaii Coffee Association's July 2010 cupping competition, where we placed as a finalist, said Kona Café had a "very sweet, fruity flavor with strawberry notes complemented by a nutty depth and spicy peppery tones." They rate it among the "elite coffees" with an overall score of 85.

These descriptions will seem unfamiliar to most coffee drinkers. They are a lot like the terms found in wine tasting. We are happy that fine coffees have taken their place beside fine wines. We take great care in our farming methods; we have our coffee graded and pay particular attention to the roasting, because we are serious about the resulting taste.

Other awards have been:
. Winners' Circle in the Gevalia Cupping Competition at the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival in 2006.
. Placing as a finalist at the Gevalia Cupping in 2004 and 1997
. First place in the Kona Spring Blossom Coffee Festival in 2003.
. Placing as a finalist with HONORABLE MENTION in the NOVEMBER, 2011 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival’s cupping competition.

Updates
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4/5/10

Coffee is related to the gardenia, and the flowers smell like gardenia. When our whole Kona coffee farm is covered in flower, it is very fragrant. Flower to green beans to red beans to our award winning estate Kona coffee, to you.
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3/15/10

Here is Allan pruning our Kona coffee trees. Many are in flower. He cuts oldest branches and selects the best of those that remain, to give the best possible yield of our award winning gourmet Kona coffee.
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2/21/10

This year's Quisine of Hearts Valentine's Day brunch had us serving our 100% Kona coffee to guests who came to sample the gourmet treats served by the best chefs in Kona and Kohala. The event benefits the local culinary academy and its program to teach good nutrition to school children.

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2/2/10

Our coffee trees are once again in flower, Kona snow, as they call it. The flowers are followed by green coffee beans, which ripen to red coffee cherry, which make the next crop of our fine 100% estate Kona coffee.

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12/3/09

Our 100% pure Kona coffee makes a perfect gift from your business. Your family and friends will also love this piece of Hawaii during this winter holiday season. Here on our Kona coffee farm on the Big Island of Hawaii, the harvest draws to a close, and we are thankful for one of the most bountiful coffee crops we have had.

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11/19/09

Our harvest of 100% pure estate Kona coffee is nearly complete here on our farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. It has been a very good crop, and we are very thankful. Allan has begun pruning. The bowed branch in the photo has borne coffee cherries for several years, and when picking is over, it will be cut away to make way for new branches.

10/15/09

It is harvest time on our Kona coffee farm on the Big Island of Hawaii. Here are the ripe, red cherries that are giving us a bumper crop of our outstanding Kona coffee. They go to the mill, to the roaster, and to you.

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8/1/09

Our Naupaka 100% Kona Coffee placed in the Winners' Circle in the Chef's Choice division of the Cream of the Crop Cupping Competition, sponsored by the Kona Coffee Council, this July 25, 2009. Naupaka combines a low elevation coffee, our own KONA CAFÉ, with coffee from a higher elevation farm, an estate we also manage.

Naupaka won the Silver Medal award in the same cupping competition in September, 2007.

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7/15/09

Here is one of our coffee trees in three stages at once, white flowers, green beans, and red coffee cherry. It looks like Christmas. Soon it will be all cherry, ready to harvest. The next crop of 100 % pure Kona coffee will start to come in late in the summer.