The Tierra beans instead of being Fairtrade still have that feel-good factor thanks to this initiative, and this is reinforced by their use of 30% Rainforest Alliance certified beans in the Tierra blend. The communities are in medium to high altitude areas and produce only Arabica beans, resulting in a blend that, on paper at least, is about as good as it gets.

What they’ve done is single out three disadvantaged coffee producing communities in Honduras, Colombia and Peru and then provides technical assistance to help make their farms sustainable. Lavazza Tierra is a sustainable development project combining product quality with improved living conditions for the three small-scale coffee growing communities involved. Lavazza don’t have a Fairtrade coffee in their range, preferring instead to have control over where the money is going and doing it their own way. Like all Lavazza blue coffee beans, it’s suitable for making pretty much all espresso-based coffee drinks, but is particularly suited to straight espresso or macchiatos. There are hints of spice and chocolate, brought out by the roasting process. It’s blended from Central American, Highland South American and Asian beans to give it a balanced flavour and is medium roasted to produce a coffee that has a stronger than average taste. This is one of the best sellers here in the UK. If you’re looking for Lavazza coffee beans, we would always recommend this blend unless you have a specific reason to be using anything else. It’s medium roasted as you’d expect, so it’s neither too mild nor burnt and bitter. Super Crema is blended from washed Brazilian coffee beans to give it depth, and other varieties from Central America and Indonesia, to give it the creamy texture it’s known for. Make an espresso with it and you’ll get a thick crema (as the name would suggest), but try a long latte with two sugars and a shot of caramel syrup and it will still taste of coffee, unlike some other blends that get overpowered. It’s also a bit of an all-rounder in that you can make pretty much any type of coffee with it and it will still work. Super Crema has always been our best selling coffee beans as it offers the best balance between price and quality. There are also some newer blends which are in coloured bags, including Alteco and Brasile Arabica. We only sell the Lavazza blue range so we’ll only be talking about those in this article.

Lavazza blue is a more premium range aimed at coffee shops, restaurants, hotels and so on. Lavazza red tends to be found more in cash and carries, supermarkets and high street shops. Lavazza coffee beans are broadly split into two different categories, those in red bags and those in blue bags. We’ll therefore stick with the facts rather than try to tell you how great we think it tastes to us. We can of course use quality as a guide, but as an example, my personal favourite and the blend often recommended by Lavazza is not the most expensive in their range. We are often asked whether one blend tastes better than another, and the answer always has to be that taste is a subjective thing, what one person loves another may dislike and vice versa. The only thing to factor in is the price – you may be prepared to pay that little bit more for what you drink at home, for obvious reasons.Īnother point to make before we describe these great Lavazza coffees is that taste can’t be measured. To be honest, it doesn’t really matter whether you are buying coffee beans for use in your coffee shop or just to enjoy at home, the principal is the same – if it tastes good to you, it should taste good to your customers too. Please note this isn’t an advert or a buyers’ guide, simply an explanation of the origins, flavour and suitability of the range of Lavazza coffee beans. We therefore decided to put together this easy-to-follow guide to help you choose the right Lavazza coffee for you. We stock a range of premium brands of coffee including Lavazza, and we are one of the leading distributors in the UK. Shopping for espresso coffee beans can be a baffling experience unless you already know what you’re looking for.

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