Fair Trade Organic Whole Bean Coffee - French Roast, 4 lbs

Fair Trade Oganic French Roast is dark and complex. Roasted and blended for a bold, but sweet intensity. Tasting NotesDeep, dark and satisfying, our Fair Trade Organic French Roast arrives at its rich taste and complex flavors through the artful blending of multiple roast styles. Its flavors are a reflection of the warm days, cool nights and high elevation along the volcanic shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala"s most famous ? and arguably its most beautiful ? crater lake.Flavor ChartWe find coffees from the Atitlan region to be naturally sweet and lushly aromatic, and more than able to meet the rigors of this demanding dark-roast blend. Notes from OriginLa Voz Que Clama en el Desierto (The Voice that Cries Out in the Desert) is the name of a Guatemalan coffee cooperative begun in 1977 by the indigenous Tzutuhil men and women of San Juan de La Laguna, near Guatemala"s Lake Atitlán.The drop in coffee prices in the late 1990s forced many La Voz families to stop sending their children to school. With the higher incomes that Fair Trade provides, families now maintain well-equipped schools with high academic standards in the communities of San Juan, San Pedro, and Palestina. Three hundred children of La Voz members presently attend school in the area. The cooperative recently presented each of the schools with 150 desks, purchased with Fair Trade revenue from the 2002-2003 harvest."Every single child of the members of La Voz is in school. Income from Fair Trade has helped send our children all the way through to university and helped them obtain professional positions such as agronomists and doctors. The children come back to work to help their parents in whatever way they can. The best inheritance parents can give their children is education."?Benjamín Cholotío,La Voz General Manager

A versatile coffee that lends itself to most any method of brewing. A French Press will reveal a truly muscular cup.