Tea & Coffee 03/04 - American Espresso: The State of the Rage (#)
„A handful of high-quality, direct-from-Italy import espresso blends, exemplified by Illycaffe’s (www.illy.com ) 1980s introduction to the U.S., lead an invasive wave of lackluster Italian espresso products into the North American market. Some of Italy’s very best roasters of exquisite coffee are all but unknown here, as is Caffe Corsini (www.caffecorsini.it ). Most of the Italian imports we see are blended with filler Arabica and Robusta coffees.“
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„The foundations of illy philosophy are ethics and passion for excellence. In pursuance of these, illycaffe has devised very high standards, for itself and its partners, to ensure that an illy espresso is always perfect. In this endeavour illy adheres to and attempts to improve every aspect of the standards of quality, in production, in processes and customer services.“
http://www.indiacoffee.org/newsletter/2004/jan/ events_illy.html
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„In the past 10 years, illycaffè, the world leader in innovation and technology, has helped identify the quality growing regions, educated growers on planting and production methods, conducted field trials of new coffee varieties and through Pensa (Program for Studying the Agricultural Business System, South America's largest university, University of Sao Paulo, has joined forces with illycaffè to carry out coffee production development studies. In 1999, illy published a pocket manual of coffee growing guidelines to guarantee the quality of the crop at the growing and production stages. In the first half of 2000, also in association with the University of Sao Paulo, the company inaugurated the Illy University of Coffee to teach coffee planting, production and marketing—the business of coffee.“
http://www.illyusa.com/pr/the_search.htm
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„In addition to the refined Illy Medium Roast, the other champions of the roast-and-ground category are well-established on supermarket shelves. The Yuban 100% Colombian is, as always, a fine, consistent canned coffee that offers a sturdy, versatile version of the classic American breakfast cup. And the MJB Hawaiian Blend is a continuing coffee miracle: A canned coffee so aromatic and complexly fragrant that, on the cupping table, I invariably mistake it for a fine whole-bean specialty blend.What the Illy Caffe Medium Roast, Yuban 100% Colombian and MJB Hawaiian Blend demonstrate is that there is no technical impediment to delivering a good, even fine, coffee in a roast-and-ground, canned format. The real impediment is a mutually reinforcing alliance of nickle-and-diming, cost-rationalizing commercial roasting companies and palate-dead consumers who have been fed grainy, cloying robustas for so long that theyve forgotten what coffee tastes like.“
http://www.coffeereview.com/articles/print/ 52.cfm
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„illycaffè, an international market leader in the finest-quality coffee, is proud to announce the launch of its latest contribution to the illy collection, the name given to special artist designed sets of espresso cups. In connection with its significant sponsorship of Minimalia, an important exhibition of 20th century Italian art on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York in 1999, illycaffè commissioned the renowned Italian artist Mimmo Paladino to create seven unique art works for a limited edition of illy espresso cups.“
http://www.illyusa.com/pr/mimmo.htm
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