La ColombeNizza Medium Roast Whole Bean Coffee - Notes of Milk Chocolate, Nuts & Brownie with Honey-Sweet Roasted Nuttiness, 12 Ounce (Pack of 1)

I’ve been using La Colombe’s Nizza blend as my everyday coffee for a few weeks now, and overall I really enjoy it. It’s a medium roast with a super smooth flavor. lots of chocolate, caramel, and nutty notes that make it perfect for lattes and cappuccinos. It’s not bitter at all, and there’s no weird aftertaste, which I really appreciate.When I use it for drip or French press, it’s mellow and easy to drink—definitely more on the comforting side than bold or complex. If you like coffees that are bright or fruity, this probably isn’t it. But if you’re after something warm, rich, and classic, it’s a solid pick.For espresso, it pulls nicely once you dial it in, It’s also amazing in milk drinks—the sweetness really comes through and the texture is velvety.Final thoughts: This is a great “comfort coffee.” Not flashy or fancy, but really reliable and delicious especially if you like your coffee with milk. I’ll definitely keep it in the rotation. Not cheap but tastes like it’s not cheap, which is good IMO.

Wonderful, rich, full bodied flavor!

A few years ago I handled an arbitration in Manhattan and ended up living at the Tribeca Grand hotel. That turned out to be a short stroll away from a very comfortable La Colombe café, where I satisfied my espresso habit for a few months. Nizza is the blend the La Colombe cafés use for the standard espresso pull.While I have tried dozens of single origin and blended beans for espresso at home, Nizza has been my ‘house blend’ since then. Until recently, I ordered direct from La Colombe, but discovered that amazon will do prime delivery and sells the 24 ounce format for less than buying direct. I’ve ordered dozens of times now; never have I received ‘old’ coffee, ground coffee instead of beans, or less coffee than I paid for.I drink straight shots, pulled from an ECM Synchronika, ground in an ECM V-Titan grinder. My wife drinks her espresso with milk. Each of us goes through two or three 20 gram dose/40 gram pulls a day.Nizza is NOT ‘very dark roast’ as some have said here. It is a Full City to Full City+ roast, well before the beans begin to get oily and turn toward black. The Nizza flavor profile is exactly what I look for in my straight shots: dominant tones of creamy milk chocolate and toasted hazelnut, moderate acidity. My wife tells me Nizza goes well with steamed milk — I don’t touch the moo juice, although I have had shots of Nizza marked with a tablespoon or so of foam and that’s a perfect macchiato in my book.I shoot for a 1 gram dose: 2 gram shot ratio, 200F at the brewhead, about 32 to 36 seconds extraction with a few seconds of preinfusion. I use a puck screen to minimize my maintenance needs, along with a stainless steel portafilter, VMS shower screen and VST 22 gram ridgeless portafilter basket. For some reason, I always find it is uncommonly easy to dial in grind, tamp and time with Nizza beans; and I always get a pretty reasonable head of crema. I don’t think there is robusta in the blend, as often is the case with blends from Lavazza and other Italian commercial blends, so you won’t obtain the kind of crema —or the blast of caffeine — you may expect from those.I’m pretty serious about my coffee and have been for about half a century. I see some very negative reviews of Nizza here on amazon and have to wonder whether the reviewers had one of those now and then bad experiences that occur with any product, or with fulfillment of an order — or whether they just don’t have a clue what they’re doing.In any event, I’ve never been disappointed with this blend; or with amazon fulfillment of my order. And at around $20 for 1.5 pound of beans of this quality, buying the 24 ounce format Nizza whole bean coffee from amazon is a very good deal.

These are the best coffee beans we've found in the past few years. Our previous favorite coffee roasters appear to have not survived the pandemic, and every brand we've tried since has tasted so thin, flat and bitter -- with some that didn't even taste recognizably like coffee -- that we were considering becoming full-time tea drinkers. But this coffee has restored our faith that it's still possible to find delicious coffee at a non-prohibitive price.Brewing the coffee using the pour-over method resulted in a lovely, full-bodied, non-acidic brew that actually tastes as the flavor notes described -- chocolaty, nutty, mellow yet robust, and not the least bit bitter. The only disappointment was that the item was delivered with a Whole Foods order on August 29, but the best-by date on the package was August 17. But that's not a major complaint, as the beans are the best we've had since the end of the pandemic. We'll continue to buy this La Colombe Nizza, but next time will visit our local Whole Foods to choose a package with a best-by date that hasn't already passed.

Nice mellow flavor - no acidity and great aroma. Beans are fresh and stay that way after package is opened. Our family really likes it.

Great coffee. Fantastic taste. I drink my coffee black and it isn't bitter at all.

Purchased on August 23, best buy date October 25. Literally no aroma. Almost tasteless. $16 for this? What a ripoff.

I have been drinking Nizza for about a year now. When this coffee is fresh or decently fresh it's absolutely amazing, but here lately it's been a gamble. I've noticed that coffee sent two to three months from expiration slightly smells like an ashtray when grinded and tastes bitter and burnt. I can't drink it like that. So, if you're lucky enough to get a fresh bag, you will be blessed with an amazing cup of coffee! Otherwise, you're better off getting it from one of those rest stop instant coffee dispensers. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your flavor!