Is it that time of year again already? Time for our stockings to be hung with care and our cups to be filled with Christmas Blend? Indeed, it is. Christmas comes early to the Starbucks coffee tasting room. Every year we begin the process of putting together the current year’s version of this customer favorite in March, when we taste samples of all of our aged Sumatra coffees, determining which lots are ready to be included in Christmas Blend. There were some very special lots we identified this year, and they are showing nicely in the final cup. When we talk about ‘aged’ coffees, we are talking about coffees that are aged for three to five years as green coffee, prior to being …
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