Why do we taste coffee? Different coffees from different places in the world have different
flavor nuances, so we are really looking to capture and benchmark those flavors and really
looking at coffee quality. I'm Leslie Wolford, and I work on the coffee Quality Team and
I get to taste coffee for a living. So, the first thing is smell the coffee. It is a good
indication of what you're going to get to taste. So if you're excited about something
you're smelling, chances are it's going to be really good when you get to taste it. Step
Number 2 is slurping. You can't evaluate what you're tasting until you slurp. And so, when
you slurp, I'm going going to be pulling air into my mouth. And the idea with that, is
that it's going to coat the whole inside of my mouth and really help me create an impression
of the coffee. So, I'm just going to drip my spoon in there...I just kind of chew it
up a little bit, roll it around, it helps me get a really good impression of the coffee.
And then we're going to actually use words to describe what we're tasting! I get a little
bit of a chocolate flavor, fresh green herbs, earthy, syrupy, flavors of citrus, floral
notes, and it has a very nice, pleasing sweetness to it. The idea is to explore all of the great
flavors that are out there in coffee. Enjoy it. Taste it. Share it. Because coffee is
fun! Coffee always surprises.