What tasting notes actually mean

Tasting notes are the roaster’s description of what the coffee reminded them of. There is no blueberry in the bag. The notes are useful because they are consistent within a roaster’s range, and broadly consistent across the industry.

Our flavour families

We keep every roaster’s original words and additionally map them into twelve plain-language families: chocolate, nutty, caramel, berries, citrus, stone fruit, tropical, floral, winey, spice, earthy and roasty. Filtering by “chocolate” shows coffees whose roaster used a chocolate-family word.

Notes are not ingredients and not health claims. If a roaster has not supplied notes, we say “Not provided” rather than inventing them.