The French like Ethiopian coffee. I have been able to pick it up easily there from local supermarkets for some years. From what I have seen on the shelves, Ethiopian coffee seems to be the second most popular after Brazil. Carrefour is France's biggest supermarket chain, and one of the largest in the world. Unlike British supermarket coffee, which is sold in 227g (8 oz) packets, the French sell in 250g packets, giving slightly better value for money.
This is a slightly darker, clumpier powder than other Ethiopian coffee I've had, and the aroma is of slightly burnt coffee. The blurb on the packet doesn't give any particular region, only saying that the coffee is Arabica grown on high ground. The flavour is fairly robust with lots of dark notes and little in the way of acidity or fruit. It's a firm coffee flavour and has some lingering but not aggressive bitterness. It tastes like a basic coffee - no real character. It's drinkable and reasonably attractive, but holds no real interest.
Tasting notes
* Both oily and powdery. Creamy and mild with a decent body, though soft flavour. Moderately sweet body with a soft but lingering bitterness. No character, but drinkable.
* Initially powdery and bitter, this settled into a rounded coffee with some deep and dark citric notes - violets and lime. The bitter powdery feel returned at times to drag it down. Inconsistent, with an unpleasant bitter powder.
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