Our French Medium is one of our more popular blends. It is a very dark and oily bean, but not as bitter as our Italian High Roast
Best served through espresso although does well through cafetiere/filter for those who enjoy dark oily coffees.
n.b Some ‘Bean to Cup’ machines may be designed in a way that oiler beans are not recommended for use, please check machine manuals before using.
Clarinda Chant –
I love this coffee – it is not as powerful as some, but full of flavour.
Dr. David Woods –
Our long-held favourite but this particular tranche / batch / lot seems to have a somewhat BITTER after-taste which is a surprising novelty and not exactly welcome. Nevertheless, I will continue to order this faithful old friend for its richness, fullness, generosity and finesse and assume it just had an off-day.
C Hamilton (verified owner) –
Lovely
Gerald Watson (verified owner) –
The medium french roast is the best French Roast i’ve had, anywhere; and i live between the UK and France. Simply stunning
Christopher Underwood (verified owner) –
This is a delicious coffee roasted to perfection for espresso. It leaves a lasting deep coffee taste with no bitterness. Please don’t taint it by adding unnecessary fat or other rubbish – it’s perfect on its own from the thick crema to the last drop. Temperamental to get a consistent grind like most oily beans but that adds to the pleasure of experimenting with different grind amounts and grades – I get excellent results with a hand grinder.
Sam newman (verified owner) –
The best strong full flavoured espresso
PAGC (verified owner) –
I keep coming back to this coffee because of its traditional smooth and strong taste and crema. I use it for latte using a bean-to-cup espresso machine.
Christopher Underwood (verified owner) –
This is the best coffee I’ve ever tasted for the double espressos I drink all the time. Superb; not bitter but well-balanced with an enduring rich taste. My only criticism is that’s it’s rather temperamental to get the grind refinement and quantity consistently right for optimum extraction.
David Johnston (verified owner) –
About the best coffee you can buy, in my view.
Richard Swinney (verified owner) –
Although I generally prefer a medium roast, I like to try a dark roast from time to time, and this one seems to capture perfectly that “continental cafe” flavour.
Allyson Savage (verified owner) –
Really nice coffee. Really nice dark roast, very smooth, great flavours
Onduk (verified owner) –
Would never have thought I would try a medium roast as always bought the dark roast. I would always and still do but a coffee I haven’t tried just to see what’s out there and I decided to try the French roast.
Wow this is one of the best coffees I have had. Full of flavour and not a bad strength either and has now become my go to coffee of choice.
Try it and you might just be surprised
Michael (verified owner) –
Confusing labels. Said it was medium but it was very dark roast. Almost undrinkable. Disappointed.
David Yates (verified owner) –
Made in a Rancilio espresso machine. I didn’t like the taste, the crema was thin, and then after a few brews the oiliness of the beans proved too much for my Sage grinder, so I had to throw away most of the 250gm bag.
John Upton (verified owner) –
Favourite coffee so far – will definately be buying again
Barbara Brownlee (verified owner) –
These coffee beans are very dark in colour and when ground produce beautiful strong coffee. I use an Italian coffee pot. Highly recommended