Glossary of Coffee Terminology - U-V

 

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Varietals

Humanist who traveled for years in Middle East, and wrote from Istanbul in 1615 about Turkish coffee, coffee-houses and medical attributes of coffee.

The term used for the coffee that comes from a geographical region. A Sumatra, Kenya, Costa Rica or a Java are varietals. As in wine, soil, climate and cultivation methods affect the taste of your coffee. The term varietals is actually a misnomer, since Arabica coffee plants are basically of the same species, unlike wine grapes which come from different species of grape vines.

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