Starbucks Komodo Dragon Blend®: love!

Well, everybody knows that I LOVE everything that has or match with pepper, or just is spicy. If you didn't knew that, now you do. That's one of the main reasons that made me fall in love with this Starbucks® coffee: Komodo Dragon Blend®. So, let me tell a short story!

The Dragon as I see it! :)

When I was learning and studying to become a Starbucks Coffee Master, I saw a Komodo Dragon. And I love Komodo Dragons. The Dragon was the symbol of one coffee that, sadly, we didn't had at the Brazilian market for sail. So, I could only imagine how should be its flavor and aroma.

The more I was learning about coffee, the more I was falling in love for it. Then I've decided, by reading the the Komodo's description and curiosities, that that should be my favorite coffee ever! C'mon, a Komodo Dragon!

When the great day came, (a year after starting my "coffee-studies") I did almost cryied. It was not a sunny day, but still a perfect day for an Indonesian Coffee Tasting, though it was not a very hot or a cold weather. When I first felt the spiced aroma, I felt like I was walking through an Indonesian spices's market; and then, suddenly, I felt that peculiar "rainy and earthy aroma", and when I've closed my eyes I saw like I was walking deep in a forest, and I was been watched. The coffee body made me feel like Komodo Dragons were looking at me!

My first Komodo Dragon's tasting was scary, spicy, beautiful, and unpredictable!

Today, after waiting for four years (!) we have this amazing coffee at our market. And everytime I prepare a Komodo coffee, I have to use... Pepper! Preparing this coffee became like a ritual.

And I love rituals, for this is one of my favorites!