🌿 Indian Estate & Global Flavor Explorer
Discover the unique terroir of Indian estates alongside international profiles.
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Barista Insight: Indian specialty coffees are gaining global recognition for their balanced, low-acidity profiles. Estates like Araku and Attikan offer unique spice and chocolate notes rarely found elsewhere.
How to use a coffee flavor wheel
A flavor wheel helps you put words to what you taste. The best-known one is the Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel, published by the Specialty Coffee Association and World Coffee Research. Its descriptors are based on the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon.
- Taste the coffee once it has cooled slightly. Many flavors are easier to pick out when coffee is warm rather than hot.
- Start in the centre with a broad family: fruity, floral, sweet, nutty or cocoa, spicy, roasted, or sour and fermented.
- Move outward to narrower notes. For example, fruity leads to berry, and berry leads to blackberry.
- Write down two or three notes, and compare them with the roaster’s description.
Tips for tasting
- Taste two coffees side by side. Differences are much easier to notice than single flavors.
- Use the same brew method and ratio for both, so the coffee is the only thing that changes.
- Treat origin notes as tendencies, not guarantees. Processing, roast and brewing change flavor as much as origin does.