KONA CAFÉ, REVIEWS AND DESCRIPTIONS

Kona Coffee Cherries
Kona Coffee Cherries

Our latest review from The Coffee Review of Berkeley, California described Kona Café as having a "delicate, sweet toned dark chocolate in aroma and cup," with an overall score of 90. In their Summer Selections of 2010, Den Davids and Ted Sachura of the Coffee Review called Kona Café "the classic Kona." Both reviews were of our Viennese roast."

In July, 2010, Kona Café was a finalist at the Hawaii Coffee Association's cupping competition. Our coffee was descr4ibedf as having"very sweet, fruity flavor with strawberry notes." It was rated among the "elite coffees."

Other awards have been:

. HONORABLE MENTION in the November, 2011 Kona Coffee Cultural Festival's cupping competition
. 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, 2012 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.