Sweet Maria's Altiplano Blend

We're rebooting another round of the ever popular Altiplano blend. This particular lot is balanced and bittersweet, with such a creamy mouthfeel as espresso. There's a hint of fruit to be found too, though far from a fruity blend. While intended for espresso, I think full immersion brewing will do well to highlight body, not to mention the syrup, bittersweet cup profile. Middle roasts are chocolatey through and through, the dry fragrance marked by smells of cocoa powder and a hint of dried date, the wet aroma more of a dark chocolate and molasses smell that's incredibly potent. As espresso, Full City shots have this dark, syrupy aspect underneath that comes off like a dark chocolate sundae topping, a flavor that really hangs around in the aftertaste. It also has a tangy aspect that fits in like shaved lemon peel on the rim of your demitasse (so '90's!). What I think you'll mostly find here are shots gushing with syrupy, thick chocolate bittersweetness, and flavor notes of high % cacao-chocolate bars, rich chocolate truffles, and dark chocolate syrup. I'm particularly fond of shorter espresso shots myself, my favorite results using an 18 gram basket, yielding around 20-25 grams of espresso over the course of roughly 25 seconds. The shots have such a creamy mouthfeel, allowing the rich chocolatey flavors to linger on your tongue. The flavors are incredibly intense, as if shouting all at once, finding space and identity in the middle and finish. The aftertaste is just so long and contemplative, and flavor notes hint at raisin, praline almond, 'cocoa crispies', Baker's chocolate, and so much more.