Cobblestone Blend Featured Products, Blends, Wholesale Customers

PRODUCT INFORMATION

A premium blend inspired by the cobbled streets of rural Latin America. Laden with caramel sweetness, berry fruit flavours and a roasted almond finish this seasonal blend changes through the year and the coffees are always fresh, delicious and Latino..

Blend: Blend: 62.0% Asociación De Productores De Cafe El Paraiso (Colombia); 38.0% Potosi (Colombia)

Cultivar: Caturra and Colombia; Catuaí and Caturra

Altitude: Range of 1400m to 1900m asl

Process: Washed and Natural Processes

Cobblestone is a fresh, juicy espresso blend with a medium body and harmonious balance of caramel sweetness, underlying berry notes and a bright citrus acidity. It's inspired by the beauty and diversity of Latin America, the ever-changing landscapes, cultures and people, the seemingly endless range of coffee flavours to be found throughout the region, and of course Latin vibrance. Throughout this diversity, a constant that harmonises the coffeelands bringing a sense of cohesiveness to the region are idyllic rural towns, draped in history with brightly painted houses that line ever present cobbled streets.Our first re-blend of 2023 returns for the fourth time to a luscious tropical fruit forward sourced completely from Colombian and seen annually since early 2020. Bringing a vibrant tropical fruit base to the blend the Potosi farm in Colombia’s southern Cauca region. Potosi is one of a group of small farms owned by Rigoberto and Luis Herrera in the Valle de Cauca, and this natural processed Colombia cultivar showcases their complete approach to quality.
We love the fruit forward tropical notes of ripe pineapple, mango and banana Potosi brings along with strawberry and a positive booziness. The dense creamy finish to this version Cobblestone is down to this ever excellent coffee as well.
Second up and the major part of the blend is our ever popular ‘La Virgen’ from the Grupo Asociativo Villa Esperanza producer collective in Colombia's Huila region. As ever it’s a coffee full of brown sugar, orange citrus, stewed fruit and milk chocolate like flavours. This coffee is a high grown gem and adds structure, flavour and complexity to the blend.

The Potosi roasts much faster than the La Virgen so to keep all the caramel and fruit flavours as the centre point of the blend we roast both coffees separately on a medium roast profile before blending after roasting. When brewed look for a pronounced sweetness and flavours of caramel, tropical fruit, strawberry and orange citrus. Cobblestone takes milk very well and delivers a lighter style of cappuccino or latte where toffee, milk chocolate and a red berry note come through with supreme balance.The blend is primarily designed for espresso but will work in other brew methods. We've put together some brew recipes with supporting tasting notes for different types of coffee maker to start you off. Please use these as a guide only:

Espresso
This espresso recipe for Cobblestone was put together in our quality lab. How much you put into the portafilter will depend on your machine and this particular recipe was developed on a La Marzocco GS3/VST20g basket/K30 grinder.It brews a caramel and tropical fruit like espresso with orange citrus on the finish and a dense creamy mouthfeel.
Ratio: 1 : 23 ratio / 18.5g : 41.3g @ 94.0°C
Brew time: 28 - 30 seconds
TDS: 9.20%
Extraction: 21.28%
If you’re not sure about ratios this means ‘dry coffee weight: brewed coffee weight’. Weight is a more consistent way of measuring than volume and we always recommend using an inexpensive set of digital scales that have 0.1g resolution when brewing at home.---

Espro Press (or French Press)
Brew Guide: Dose - 20g/Water - 280ml @ 94°C
Grind - coarse
Brew time - 4:00
Tasting Notes: Flavours of caramel, tropical fruit and milk chocolate, with a brown sugar sweetness
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Aeropress
Brew Guide: Dose - 20g/Water 250ml @ 94.5°C
Grind - Slightly coarser than filter
Brew time - 3:00

Tasting Notes: Notes of Milk chocolate, lush red berries and tropical fruit, with a grapefruit citrus acidity and dense creamy mouthfeel.