Green Mountain Coffee Holiday Flavors
Green Mountain Coffee, if you don’t know, is a coffee company that takes it’s coffee seriously. They deal in organically grown, fair trade, and shade grown coffees and their flavors and blends are spectacular. Hand crafted is all over the coffee from the first sniff to the final slurp.
I like flavored coffees. Marc can take them or leave them, but to me, sitting in front of the fire with a mug of pumpkin spice coffee, generously colored with rich cream and sweetened with my favorite stevia is almost a spiritual experience.
I have described the coffees to the best of my ability, and suggested some desserts that I feel would be a compliment to them.
All images that follow are from Green Mountain Coffee.
Fair Trade Holiday Blend: A blend of light and dark roasted coffee, with a spicy aroma. It finishes with a lingering bittersweet chocolate taste. Perfect with your Christmas Eve Buche de Noel and other rich desserts.
Fair Trade Spicy Egg Nog: Cinnamon and nutmeg, with a creaminess that is difficult to describe. This coffee is perfect with the spice cakes, gingerbread, cookies, and apple pies of the season.
Fair Trade Pumpkin Spice: Light body, spicy with a vanilla -nut aftertaste. Definite pumpkin pie flavor comes through in both the aroma and then taste. Would be great on it’s own, or with bittersweet chocolate truffles on the side.
Fair Trade Gingerbread: Warm ginger-spicy flavor brings the holiday kitchen of your childhood to mind with this coffee. Top it with some whipped cream dusted with freshly grated nutmeg and sit by the fire watching it snow. Or, like me, pretending that the dust blowing around outside is very tiny snowflakes. :) Would be awesome with panna cotta, creme brulee, or vanilla pots de creme.
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7 opinions for Green Mountain Coffee Holiday Flavors
Julie
Dec 3, 2007 at 5:24 pm
I adore Green Mountain. A while back I wrote many different coffee companies for samples to try out. Not for reviews, just to try, instead of buying a ton and not liking it.
Green Mountain sent me a box full of samples. Each was enough for a full pot and I totally fell in love with them.
I love that the very first post I read here covers coffee flavors with spices. Thanks for the info because my catalogue hasn’t come in yet and I haven’t seen these flavors.
Deb
Dec 3, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Marye,
Love your blog, as usual. BTW, I love a coffee that I get around here that is a Southern Pecan. It’s yummy!
And you probably didn’t know this about me, but I want to start a coffee shop. We have a college around here and a real need. But……it’s just a dream for now.
Love ya dear
Deb
Oh, and I don’t really blog, know how to..so I’m not sure how to blog about you somewhere else. I will try, cause I want to enter your contest….hint, hint : )
Marye
Dec 3, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Julie-
I am glad you stopped by…keep talking nice about me and I may put your name in the basket twice…
Deb-Of course I knew that…I know everythignbaout you, twinsie… ;) I need to send you some of my bourbon pecan dark roast…
She Knows Parties
Dec 3, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Hi. I’m using my code name because there’s another Julie. Hi Julie! :)
I’ll take one cup of that gingerbread coffee. I love flavored coffee too. I’ll be stopping by here often…as if I don’t drink enough coffee. Your blog is going to make my addiction worse. *sigh*
Julie
Dec 4, 2007 at 12:02 am
Hi Julie! I’d be punny and say ‘I Knows Julies’ but that would be silly.
Marye, twice? Woot! Mayhap I make you your own lolcatz in a basket.
Liberty
Dec 4, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Yum! These all sound delish. I adore flavored coffees.
I can just see a bunch of us girls sitting around, cozied up in fuzzy slippers and fleece blankies, trading stories and sampling different flavors. Mmmm…
So, uh, your place or mine? ;)
Marye
Dec 4, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Yours..I will come up through Howell and Lapeer and see relatives… :)
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