The Coffee World Tour is going on holiday after 6 months of fine, fine coffees. The World Tour may be stopping but our Quick Coffee service will continue on!

We think it’s time for the tour to head off to a tropical region for a while (maybe one of our fantastic past destinations?), get a nice tan on its branding, pump some business-model iron and come back bigger, better and prettier than ever! The last few months have been a fantastic experience for us at the CWT. We’ve seen some fantastic coffees, met some fantastic customers, gathered a wealth of excellent feedback from our tour takers and had a good time doing it all.

With more things happening at Melbourne Coffee Review than you can poke a stick at, we will be keeping the Quick Coffee side of the business open for all of you who are just crazy about that MCR Signature Blend, but have decided to close down the Tour side of the business. With the Tour side of things closed down we can direct our energy towards other ventures.

So thank you for coming along with us for the ride, we hope you’ll stick around for a bit to provide some final words of wisdom here, or get your CWT fix through the Quick Coffee form here.

Something is brewing… something big.

What’s going to happen when the CWT gets back from it’s holiday?

The Bourbon Collection is a blend of the fruit from both red and yellow bourbon trees. A pulped natural blend with remarkable and complex characteristics, creating a high quality single origin estate cup, with a delicate and clean finish. When just right, the coffee is harvested during the dry season at 3800 ft above sea level, producing a consistently high-quality bean every year – can you taste the difference here?

What to look out for:

• Mild, well balanced acidity
• An intense body
• A quite delicate flavour of clean, light lemon
• People rushing into your house asking you to pull them a cup!

Map of the growing region:

There are primarily three coffee producing areas ranging in elevation from 3,500 to 6,500 feet, with Boquete as the oldest and best known. What makes this mountaineous area so unique is that it’s many valleys create micro-climates, with most spanning less than six square miles. The winds blowing over the mountains from the north, create a fine mist called bajareque that acts as a huge air conditioner slowing the ripening of the coffee cherries, you can see it in action blurring out most of the satellite map below.

The bean is wet-processed and is composed of 100% old-growth Caturra and Typica plants. Growing between 1100 and 1800 metres above sea level, the rich volcanic soils ensure these beans are in their prime before picking.

Overall, the Panama Single Origin is a balanced coffee with medium to high acidity, and a low to medium body.

What to watch out for:

• High nutty-ness factor
• Maple flavours
• Hints of vanilla
• Faint whispers of caramel and white chocolate beneath

Map of the growing region:

For the Jun/July rounds, the Coffee World Tour is inviting your tastebuds to Quetzaltenango, south of Huehuetenango in Guatemala.

Grown at over 1200 metres, this is a washed Arabica (mostly of a youger-than-5-years-old Caturras variety) bean processed with water-reducing technology for that extra pinch of energy saving.

It all comes from just two farms to the West of Antigua who process in Chimaltenango and ship from San Jose, south of Guatemala city to Australia. The use of organic micro organisms as fertilizers and wholly organic pesticides contribute to the bean quality as well as the local community in which they are grown.

To further the quality of the beans, these plantations are maturing, yet are kept at low yield per hectare in order to achieve better cup. Quality over quantity – that’s what we like to see!

What to look out for:

• Uniquely sweet and satisfying flavour with a mildly strong aroma.
• Rich, yet soft on the palate with fig/raisin notes breaking through.
• Chocolate tones and a medium to light body.
• Also a lively citrus acidity.

Map of the growing area:

To grab a copy, just try out the Coffee World Tour!

Normally, coffee of the calibre we deal in could be selling for a lot more than $29.95, but this just makes the world tour a ridiculously ridiculous no-brainer for even the most dense of coffee aficionados!

That makes it just $29.95 for:

• 250gm of MCR’s Signature Blend
• 250gm of Single Origin coffee from our current destination
• AND a copy of the MCR Guide!

You can take the world tour by clicking here or the link on the top menu bar over there.

Once you’ve got the form up, just type “GUIDE” in the referral code box and you’re done! Your delicious world tour experience will begin with the arrival of a book you can browse as you sip coffee and become a master taster!

The offers good for as long as we have copies of the guide sitting in our warehouse so hurry up, they’re taking up space (Oh, and of course they won’t last long)! We’ll let you know when we run out by updating this post. See an update yet? Hurry then!

Map of growing region:

This months single-origin slice of heaven hails from a series of four farms in the Waghi Valley, located in the Western Highlands Province. Exported to Australia by Carpenter Estates, this exceptionally aromatic bean is grown at 1555m above sea level, consists of Arusha and Typica varieties and was washed and twice hand-sorted before export.

The Coffee World Tour’s Sigri Coffee is the perfect follow-on from last months Bluebird with a looooooong, sweet finish. As the “Redbird” beans are immersed in water for a full day after washing and then sun dried (no machinations or drying-boosters involved here) every sip breaths the life of the rich Papua New Guinean soils.

What to watch out for:

Map of growing region:

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It’s no secret that the Coffee World Tour is straight from the brain-stem of Melbourne Coffee Review!

This single origin coffee (grown on the map below near Acevedo, Garzon and Gigante, all centred around Guadalupe) is a Columbian Supremo 18 “Blue Bird”, a sweet, intensely rich Columbian that needs to be tasted to be believed. Mild and well balanced all the way through, this large, deep-mountain bean is washed in pure mountain water and carefully sun dried. Believe us, it shows!

Map of growing region: