Nescafe Black Gold Coffee

Advantages: It's coffee
Disadvantages: Nothing special

Black Gold? No, this isn't a hard-hitting social commentary on the shameful history of the slave trade. Nor is it a whining moan about the revenue from the thick viscous stuff that flows from the North Sea down to London and vanishes quicker than WMD's in the Middle East. No, rather less contentious...possibly, the subject matter of this review is a coffee called Black Gold from those wonderfully altruistic people at Nescafe. Now I'm not going to ...
...of) concerning Nescafe's business practices. If you want to know more about that sort of thing, go and google! Me? I like coffee. But I'm not a coffee snob - it's not as if it's beer, right? Anyway, as long as it's a decent coffee, I don't give a roasted bean who makes it, or where, or when, or how. Or even why. As long as it tastes good, I don't much care. Usually, this means that I buy a ginormous jar of anything that's on offer. Not Mrs P though. ... Read review

Advantages: Taste, quality, versatility
Disadvantages: Price, can disolve badly

...of the huge variety of coffee's produced by Nescafe. Nescafe was first introduced in Switzerland in 1938 and has since grown to be one of the largest and most well respected brands on the market. oOoOo THE JAR oOoOo The jar I have sitting in front of me is a 200g jar. Its a bulky rectangular clear glass jar with sides that curve in. It screams quality at you. The label on the front is cut to fit the wavy design of the har and is varying shades of gold. The label simply says Nescafe Gold Blend in large white writing and 'Fresh taste and rich aroma' in smaller black writing at the bottom of the label. There's a large drawing of a gold scoop filled with coffee beans emblazoned with the Nescafe logo. Turn the jar round and you have the same label as on the front except the label is a rich brown colour and all the writing is gold. You... Read review

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Advantages: Full of flavour, Intense aroma, Very relaxing and soothing drink
Disadvantages: High on caffeine

...What a staggering statistic. Can you imagine it. 3,000 cups of Nescafe are drunk every second throughout the world. Out of this amount a large proportion would be of the Nescafe Original type and this happens to be the type that I regularly consume. Nescafe produce many varieties of coffee including Gold Blend, Blend 37, Black Gold, Fine Blend, Alta Rica, Cap Columbie, Kenjara and several others. The differences between all of these variations are based on the mixture of coffee beans used. The higher priced coffees use the less common coffee varieties, which are naturally more expensive. There are around 25 different species of coffee but the most commonly used ones are Coffee Arabica and Coffee Robusta. The Arabica variety makes up 70% of the total coffee produced and all coffees use this variety as it main mixture... Read review

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Advantages: Smooth To Drink, Quality Aroma
Disadvantages: Stigma Of The Old Gold Blend Ad's!

...the taste and the packaging have changed very little, I do feel that our attitudes as consumers has changed towards to coffee and this has only served to benefit brands like Gold Blend. Gold Blend is made by Nescafe and I would suggest that Gold Blend is still one of Nescafe's premium instant coffee's despite all the new varieties that have been launched in recent years. Still packaged in a glass jar with a shaped gold twisting lid, the packaging is identical to many of the other premium coffee's made by Nescafe at the present time. The packaging is not offence nor is it unique. The main body of colour is a black with a gold bean on the front of the jar and aside from the Nescafe logo, all text is in a gold colour. So, down to the nitty gritty, hands up who wants a cuppa? Opening the jar you get a wonderful aroma of ground coffee... Read review

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