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Pamela M.
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
This is the best coffee I’ve had in a long time
Aminah
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2025
Loved the taste of these beans!
Rosa
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
I prefer bustelo tho. It’s the Hispanic in me I guess. It has a very nice soft taste. It is sort of light. I can drink it any time because it is not too strong for me and that’s because I’ve been drinking dark roast coffee since I was 5.
Bev
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2025
In a house full of coffee snobs, this made a hit. I bought it for a stocking stuffer and it was really enjoyable on Christmas morning. We'll buy it again
Ralph T Femiani
Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2024
These coffee beans make a great coffee.
Nancy Z.
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2024
I purchased the whole bean and grind the beans myself. I love the aroma of this fresh ground coffee. It is extremely smooth and delicious to the taste. I buy the NIZZA Medium Roast.
Tom M.
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023
Purchased for use in French Press and Pour-over. I grind my own beans, then use. The LaColombe Winter Roast beans smelled good during grinding, but to me were very bitter in the French Press. I love fresh coffee and medium roasts with a strong rich flavor. However, after reading the wonderful reviews, I was a little disappointed. I have spent much more on whole fresh beans, so the cost was not an issue. Rich taste and smooth flavors draws me to 'the perfect bean'. Even with my pour over, the La Colombe Winter Roast beans had a bite and were acidic. I clean my Burr Grinder between each bean grind as well. I will not purchase this variety again.
Chambolle
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2023
A few years ago I handled an arbitration in Manhattan and ended up living at the Tribeca Grand hotel. That turned out to be a short stroll away from a very comfortable La Colombe café, where I satisfied my espresso habit for a few months. Nizza is the blend the La Colombe cafés use for the standard espresso pull.While I have tried dozens of single origin and blended beans for espresso at home, Nizza has been my ‘house blend’ since then. Until recently, I ordered direct from La Colombe, but discovered that amazon will do prime delivery and sells the 24 ounce format for less than buying direct. I’ve ordered dozens of times now; never have I received ‘old’ coffee, ground coffee instead of beans, or less coffee than I paid for.I drink straight shots, pulled from an ECM Synchronika, ground in an ECM V-Titan grinder. My wife drinks her espresso with milk. Each of us goes through two or three 20 gram dose/40 gram pulls a day.Nizza is NOT ‘very dark roast’ as some have said here. It is a Full City to Full City+ roast, well before the beans begin to get oily and turn toward black. The Nizza flavor profile is exactly what I look for in my straight shots: dominant tones of creamy milk chocolate and toasted hazelnut, moderate acidity. My wife tells me Nizza goes well with steamed milk — I don’t touch the moo juice, although I have had shots of Nizza marked with a tablespoon or so of foam and that’s a perfect macchiato in my book.I shoot for a 1 gram dose: 2 gram shot ratio, 200F at the brewhead, about 32 to 36 seconds extraction with a few seconds of preinfusion. I use a puck screen to minimize my maintenance needs, along with a stainless steel portafilter, VMS shower screen and VST 22 gram ridgeless portafilter basket. For some reason, I always find it is uncommonly easy to dial in grind, tamp and time with Nizza beans; and I always get a pretty reasonable head of crema. I don’t think there is robusta in the blend, as often is the case with blends from Lavazza and other Italian commercial blends, so you won’t obtain the kind of crema —or the blast of caffeine — you may expect from those.I’m pretty serious about my coffee and have been for about half a century. I see some very negative reviews of Nizza here on amazon and have to wonder whether the reviewers had one of those now and then bad experiences that occur with any product, or with fulfillment of an order — or whether they just don’t have a clue what they’re doing.In any event, I’ve never been disappointed with this blend; or with amazon fulfillment of my order. And at around $20 for 1.5 pound of beans of this quality, buying the 24 ounce format Nizza whole bean coffee from amazon is a very good deal.
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