Coffees Are Like Fine Wines
Coffees like fine wine? Well let's see how can we compare a caffinated beverage to wine. Let's consider how today's Coffees are similar or like fine wines. My wife and I have belonged to several coffee clubs over the years. Still it really wasn’t until we traveled together and through parts of Costa Rica with some dear friends before I can say I started genuinely appreciating fine coffee. Oh, I had been enjoying some good coffees, but a coffee tour while visiting this beautiful country with a good friends of ours got that call Costa Rica home me looking a bit more seriously at coffee.
I realize I am probably not the first to compare fine coffees with fine wines. Coffee that delightful brew as I knew it, is more than just the warm caffeinated beverage, to enjoy every morning. Oh, believe me, I look forward to a nice warm cup each morning. Likely you already know coffee beans, are really the seeds from the fruit of the coffee plant. Coffee plants much like wine varietals and vines themselves, are significantly affected by where they are grown and the conditions soil where they are grown. Have you heard the saying; “you are what you eat?” Well the same goes for a lot of living things. Wines and coffees certainly share similarities as to the terroir from which they came.
The Terroir –