Lavazza Gran Riserva Whole Bean Coffee Blend, Dark Espresso Roast, 2.2LB Bag Authentic Italian

Best coffee bean for a Super Automatic Espresso Machine for the price. Low acid with bold flavor. I get this automatically delivered every 3 weeks.

This is an excellent coffee and works perfect for self grinding coffee machines (they need a dry coffee bean or will jam). Taste is phenomenal. Smooth, rich and silky. Wife has Keurig machine. Not even close.

If you like a nice espresso or latte, I highly recommend these coffee beans. Not bitter, but full-bodied flavor!

This coffee is the best I have found for the use with my full automatic JuraC9 espresso/coffee maker. If you are looking for a robust coffee, I would highly recommend.

Absolutely love this, and pretty much always keep some at home. Mainly use it for my moka. It's a good, strong, dark roast that's absolutely delicious. You can find stronger and darker roasted coffee but those do not tend to do well in a moka, and i would argue that this is as good as it gets there. To me it's well worth the price, especially relative to other coffee of similar quality.

The absolute best!!!

Awesome

Before my review below, is it just me or does Lavazza, Amazon, and other authorized Lavazza resellers tend to sell Lavazza whole beans that were roasted almost a year ago? I realize they "nitrogen-flush" their beans for freshness, but once the Lavazza bag is exposed to air, the decomposition naturally continues, and logic says, beans professionally roasted 2 weeks ago will taste better than the same beans that were also professionally roasted a year ago? Thus, year-old "fresh" beans will go stale sooner than 2 week old beans? Discover the layers of flavor profiles WITHOUT any burnt undertones. I prefer Gran Riserva (and not "Gran Riserva Filtro") over Sinfonico in that Gran Riserva has more toffee, chocolaty and maple sweet layers whereas Sinfonico has a bold strong woodsy chocolaty coffee. Brewed in a Breville Barista, this lesser-oily dark bean also keeps the grinder easier to clean / brush, without sacrificing oily coffee layer characters. This bean is wonderful for steamed milk coffees. Now the negative: The 2.2 pound Lavazza whole bean packages I have received from Amazon and other webstores, despite Lavazza nitrogen-flushing and vacuum-sealing the beans, tend to have "older" roast dates (sometimes almost a year ago). The "Best By" dates are still about 6-9 months out but I swear, the whole beans tend to lose some of the character flavors (and crema) a bit faster than fresher, locally roasted beans. But it doesn't taste stale. Plus, Lavazza price point is also significantly lower than say, Peet's (Forte) beans at my local Peet's store. If you're searching for excellent dark whole beans (from Italy!), I'd say a freshly roasted bag of Lavazza Gran Riserva is still a winner and worth making it into your coffee bean rotation. It's a total crapshoot on how "fresh." or old. of a bag, you will actually receive. The good news is if you get year-old coffee beans, Amazon's customer service is tops. 2/23/22- Sadly, I’ve pulled this product OUT of my rotation. The older roast dated bags I have received lately seem to be much older and happen more often. I’m not sure if it’s because of the pandemic procurement issues or if Lavazza beans are on the warehouse shelves longer, so I had to remove one star.. Great bean blend, just not as fresh as I prefer to grind. Ciao!

Ce café est le meilleur de tout ceux que j'ai essayé depuis 2 ans :)

So good! I’d buy again and will.

Tiene un sabor espectacular. Totalmente recomendable.

Ottimo prodotto, GUSTO ECCEZIONALE, rispecchia le aspettative e quanto scritto nel sito. Consigliato

hatte Produkt schon in Italien gekauft und Verbraucht, für den täglichen gebrauch zu teuer. Qualität gut aber zu teuer.