Bond Street by Veneziano Coffee Roasters, the winner of the 2012 Golden Bean espresso category, was named after the street that’s home to its roastery, First Pour café, training premises and equipment showroom, in Melbourne’s inner city suburb of Abbotsford.
Veneziano Coffee Roasters developed and launched their seasonal blend, Bond Street, a little over two years ago.
The first release of Bond Street at the end of 2010 earned a silver medal at the Golden Bean awards of that year and won another silver medal in the milk-based coffee category in 2011, before taking out the gold in the prestigious espresso category last month.
“The initial idea behind Bond Street was to utilise some of the exciting but very small volume bean producers we had the pleasure of sampling in our visits to coffee origins. These micro-lots are not viable in our normal production schedule, but are coffees we wanted our customers to be able to experience,” says Craig Dickson.
“It’s a great opportunity to showcase our expertise in roasting and blending and offer our customers the chance to try something new and different when it’s available.”
The winning blend consists of a natural processed Costa Rica Las Lajas Black Pearl for its bright, acidic qualities, a fully washed Guatemala Puerto Verde for its soft, sweet melon notes and a natural processed Brazil Tanque to bring in some weight in the mouthfeel and some base notes of almond.
Bond Street is available for purchase online from Veneziano’s website and it gives Veneziano’s First Pour cafés the exclusive opportunity to offer their customers something special in addition to the dependable Veneziano staples.
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