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4.0 out of 5 starsGo for the Gusto?
Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018
We order this coffee every month, and enjoy it for the most part. Coffee flavor is affected by air; purchasing it in a small brick such as this one is certainly a benefit to the picky coffee drinker. We do a pour over for ourselves, but our friends did a brewed /drip style with it and everyone seemed to really enjoy it. The only complaint we have is the flavor and quality of the coffee is inconsistent between bags - something we noticed on most Lavazza products. For example, we recently ordered three bricks, and two arrived intact and airless, but the third the seal must have been broken, because it was not a brick at all and it had air in it, resulting in an acrid and stale tasting coffee. When we ordered other Lavazza products, such as Super Crema,the Grans, Perfecto, or others, the first couple of bags were fresh and wonderful, but the third and fourth were terrible, stale and very acidic or lacking flavor - we found this in both the beans and coffee we have tried. In fact, the last bag was so bad we still cannot drink it. We do not use sugar in our coffee, just a little cream or whole milk, so the taste is more pronounced to us. This being said, we still order the Gusto each month, and it is small enough that if the bag is bad, we mix it with something else not to waste it. We ordered the Crema beans (lacked flavor) the Gusto and Illy coffee (very acidic) and compared them. The less expensive Gusto surpassed them for a daily coffee. Hope this helps someone.
