Botanical identity
Coffea canephora. Robusta is a familiar commercial name; Coffea canephora is the botanical species. Its catalog contains named clones and selections as well as groups of planting material. Evaluate the actual lot rather than treating the name as a quality score.
Reading a coffee label
Record the species, cultivar if known, producer or cooperative, country and region, processing method and roast date. A bag labelled with a country alone does not identify a cultivar.
Taste the coffee in front of you
Compare coffees with a repeatable recipe and clean equipment. Write down aroma, acidity, sweetness, body and aftertaste in your own words. A species is not a promise of a particular flavour.