
Blends
"Toby is a coffee lover's hero, a boutique master blender"
Vogue Entertaining and Travel, Mid-Winter 2000
Toby chooses very distinctive high altitude coffees from a great variety of beans from around the globe. Similar to the wine industry, certain coffee plantations or estates produce their own individual qualities due to climate and processing. It's these single origin coffees that stand on their own, ie. they don't need blending. You can distinguish one from another, and also notice subtle changes that occur each year, as in the vintage wine industry.
From these single origin coffees, Toby creates blends that are particularly unusual and unique. For example, he would blend a Central American coffee for its bright and snappy fullness, a vintage Indian for its velvety body and spice, with one of the African coffees for floral sweetness and berry-like flavours. The art is in "balancing" the individual but sometimes extreme characteristics.
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