LavazzaQualità Rossa Whole Bean Coffee, Medium Roast, Arabica and Robusta Blend, 2.2 lb Bag (Pack of 1)

Italian roast coffee is my favorite coffee because it taste like Lavazza. In my opinion and taste. because one only knows what good coffee taste like when they’ve tasted good coffee. Until you drink Italian coffee like Lavassa than you only think you know what taste good in coffee in my opinion and experience drinking coffee.Lavazza definitely is one of the many reasons I like Italian coffees! Wherever I buy it when it taste this good I know it has to be Italian, but I’m still looking to see if that’s gonna change.I have found that drinking this coffee taste great and it also taste great cold as I iced coffee. When it started to lose its freshness, then it taste better as a nice coffee. I am so impressed with it that I am giving it to my mother for Mother’s Day as a gift because she too appreciates Good coffee!

Ever since living in Italy, I have loved Lavazza! We use the beans for daily use and get the pods for espesso in our Nespresso maker. Can't imagine using another kind!

If you drink espresso and have spent more than a few weeks in Italy, you may have noticed that the "caffe`" experience is amazingly consistent across *all* bars, from the humblest hole near the parking lot for ferry Fusina-Alberoni, to the five-star hotel in Venice. "Un caffe`" is how you order the ridiculously tiny shot of ridiculously concentrated espresso for a price between 1 and 1.10 euros (that is, if you stand; the seated price can be much higher). True espresso lovers drink it with no sugar and enjoy the aftertaste for the next 30 minutes or longer.So given that an entire country appears to have no trouble making good espresso, you'd expect that the same experience could be easily replicated here in the USA, right? Well, not so easily. American tastes appear to differ, and favor 100% arabica blends with a much darker roast. Brewing such beans in the same way as in Italy (with the same machines, indeed) results in a much more acidic and burned taste, which I cannot stand, and which explains why essentially no Americans drink their espresso plain but add large amounts of milk instead.Lavazza Qualita` Rossa is one way of bringing the experience very close to that of Italian bars. There may be others. Espresso made with these beans is smoother and fruitier than any local high-end brand (I have tried many), and has a great aftertaste. Notice (back of package) that this is a 60% Robusta / 40% Arabica blend. Most coffee sold here is 100% Arabica, and so is Illy, a competing Italian brand, which I don't like as much. Arabica is supposed to have a more complex flavor, but I find that blends such as this one are smoother and more pleasant. And I can't even say I grew up with that, because I started drinking coffee in my late 30s, after living in the US for many years.

I mean, I’m sorry? I’m not a snob or anything. Well, I drink Lavazza and illy so maybe I am a little? I love me some gas station coffee so you decide.Okay, so this coffee:-good packaging? Yes.-good size? Yes.-freshness? Yes.-quality overall? She real good. Two thumbs up.Flavor is the whole problem for me. I originally bought this for cold brew but ended up using a different Lavazza blend. Whatever. So homegirl has been sitting in a dry, cool space (my cabinet) for like 2 months-ish. Anyways, I run out of my illy Classico for moka pot and I’m like, “yes, party. New beanz. Let’s do this.” I blitz her up and the smell is good, the texture is legit, good amount of that good-good bean oil aka. I’m into it. Then I brew and I’m like, meh. Mind you, I inhale my coffee while rapidly preparing for work. (Wait wait wait.. I didn’t realize until right now but I’ve been drinking mediocre coffee at work.. maybe to compensate. In the words of Ted “Theodore” Logan, “WHOA.”)I’m writing this after brewing for a second day. It’s my day off so I think I’m paying more attention to what’s going on. I have no food cooking, my neighbors aren’t cooking, no smells coming from anything that I think would affect this aroma or flavor. I added 2 sugar cubes (my regular) and 2% milk (normal as well) - it’s an americano, if you will. To me, THIS TASTES LIKE BACON GREASE. For real. Okay, fun fact: I was a professional chef for like 12ish years so I KNOW WHAT BACON GREASE IS. This, this coffee has the initial flavor of chocolate I get for Hanukkah (chalky and artificial sweetener). The smell is savory and then bada bing, bada boom - bacon grease. Not fat, grease. Like someone has used it for shallow frying and now it’s bitter, slightly burnt.Summary: this is just me and my taste buds. Like I said, everything else is great. It’s truly (are you ready for this?) …….. a matter of taste. Hahaha!

Taste, of course, is a subjective thing. This is one of the 4 or 5 that I regularly buy. The quality has been consistent and I still order a few bags of this a year,,, after maybe 10 years, I still enjoy it.I use a French Press, filtered water at 185 F, for 4 minutes. I make it very strong and mix with lots of hot milk.

It's good coffee, especially for the price. But sometimes I get a batch that tastes like I'm sucking down mulch juice. (A woody taste means the beans are too old and shouldn't have been roasted.) I'd chalk it up to a quality control issue, but it's happened a few times now, so... who knows? Maybe I'll switch to a more reliable brand.UPDATE: In hindsight, every other bag of Lavazza has been gross and stale. I have decided to no longer buy this coffee. It's just super unpleasant to open a new bag of coffee and inhale the musty aroma of stale-ass beans. I'm probably gonna gift my leftover Lavazza to a family member whose coffee tastes are questionable anyway. (Sorry, Mom.) I've knocked off a star, leaving this coffee sitting firmly at 3 out of 5. Mid.

My favorite coffee! Taste amazing!

This was a good deal on an item we purchase regularly. I trust this seller and have used them several times with good results.