iCoffeeGourmet, LLC runs a tasty-looking website selling various kinds of coffee online. Going through the site, we can almost see and smell smoking coffees giving out heavenly aroma. The website has all ingredients of a good, popular site where users can interact with it or with each other, like blog, Facebook, Twitter, coffee house confessions, newletter, contests, contact us page with a phone number. As an online shop, it has the necessary components and pages, such as a shopping cart, search box, choose a category box, product search page, checkout, order tracking. It is VeriSign secured.
Available online are gourmet coffee, coffee blend, Espresso, decaf coffee or decaffeinated coffee, organic/Fair Trade coffee, Cuban coffee, Kona coffee, Mocha coffee and coffee specials. Each kind of coffees mentioned comes in a number of varieties, so customers have a lot of choices to pick from. The beans originate from Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, Sumatra (Indonesia), Yemen and Ethiopia. Among these, the most expensive is Kona coffee, coffee arabica grown and developed in Kona districts, Hawaii. The unique weather of Kona and its crumbly, mineral-rich volcanic soil have yielded the world’s much-sought-after Kona coffee. Its price is about double compared with the prices of other coffees.
Those who prefer to avoid the side effects of caffeine can choose decaf coffee or decaffeinated coffee. Decaf coffee comes in a long list of varieties, with mouth-watering sounding names such as Almond Amaretto Decaf, Chocolate Caramel Fudge Decaf, Chocolate Hazelnut Decaf, Coconut Macadamia Decaf, Cookies and Cream Decaf, English Toffee Decaf, German Chocolate Decaf.
Interesting among the list of coffees offered online by iCoffeeGourmet, LLC is organic and Fair Trade coffee. Organic coffee is grown without using harmful chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers. Organic agriculture is environment-friendly, making use of natural production systems to provide and sustain soil fertility, like using coffee pod piles as compost. Organic farmers have to abide by the law to get certification by third-party organizations. Fair Trade coffee is certified through an independently monitored system to warrant it has been grown under fair labor conditions. The basic interest of the Fair Trade movement is to guarantee that the world’s poor smallholding farmers in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean get a decent living from the fruits of their labor.