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FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to the World's Top Ten Coffee Rankings

Coffee has always been one of the most beloved beverages, and many coffee varieties with exceptional quality and character have emerged, making them relatively expensive. FrontStreet Coffee presents the following coffees for your understanding, and you can choose according to your preferred flavor profile.

Geisha Coffee

English Name: Geisha coffee

Honors: Most expensive coffee bean, three-time cupping champion

Origin: Ethiopia, Panama, Colombia

Taste and Characteristics: Raw beans are blue-green, roasted beans have some wrinkles, with floral notes, tropical fruits, and intense sweetness

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

English Name: Blue mountain coffee

Honors: World's second highest-priced coffee

Origin: Jamaican Blue Mountains

Taste and Characteristics: Very rich aroma with persistent fruity notes, perfectly balanced acidity, sweetness, body, and bitterness, aromatic flavor, and exceptionally smooth when drinking

Colombian Coffee

English Name: Colombian coffee

Honors: Emerald coffee, small bean coffee, second largest coffee producer

Origin: Colombia

Taste and Characteristics: Sweet fragrance with acidity balanced by sweetness, due to appropriate concentration, often used in premium blended coffees, the sweet light fragrance is understated yet elegant

Brazilian Coffee

English Name: Brazilian coffee

Honors: Largest coffee producer

Origin: Brazil

Taste and Characteristics: Lower acidity, combined with coffee's bitter-sweet taste, extremely smooth entry with a light grassy fragrance, sweet and smooth

Yirgacheffe Coffee

English Name: Yirgacheffe coffee

Honors: Settled wetland

Origin: Ethiopia

Taste and Characteristics: Petite and elegant form, unique lemon, floral and honey-like sweet aroma, soft fruit acidity and citrus notes, clear and bright taste with rich texture

Guatemala Coffee

English Name: Guatemala coffee

Honors: Cigarette coffee

Origin: Guatemala

Taste and Characteristics: Raw beans are blue-green, beans are small, one of the more acidic varieties, taste is acidic with a slightly wild character, most suitable for blending into mixed coffees, rich taste with tobacco notes, smooth with slight charcoal flavor

Mandeling Coffee

English Name: Mandeling coffee

Honors: Sumatran coffee

Origin: Indonesia

Taste and Characteristics: Raw beans are brown or dark green, very rich, aromatic, bitter, mellow with slight sweetness, also an indispensable variety for blended coffees, fragrant aroma, moderate acidity, rich and solid taste

Kopi Luwak Coffee

English Name: Kopi luwak coffee

Honors: Cat feces coffee

Origin: Indonesia

Taste and Characteristics: Extracted from civet feces and processed, civets eat ripe coffee fruits and excrete them through their digestive system. Due to stomach fermentation, the resulting coffee has a special flavor, making it highly sought after in the international market

Hawaiian Coffee

English Name: Kona coffee

Honors: Kona coffee

Origin: United States

Taste and Characteristics: Perfect appearance, exceptionally full beans with bright luster, considered the world's most beautiful coffee beans, smooth, rich aroma with enticing nutty flavor notes, well-balanced and moderate acidity

Yunnan Coffee

English Name: Yunnan coffee

Honors: Yunnan small bean coffee

Origin: Yunnan Province

Taste and Characteristics: Small, round beans, floral notes mixed with citrus flavor, acidity with berry notes, extremely dry taste, rich malt flavor, feels understated, all flavor characteristics are strong yet well-balanced

Knowledge Extension:

Many coffee enthusiasts don't know how to choose coffee, but actually, you can choose according to your preferred flavor profile.