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If you love the smell of coffee beans in the morning, then Lavazza is a great choice for you. Australians rated Lavazza highly for coffee bean aroma, helping it take out this year's Finder Award. Lavazza's beans also rated well for taste and texture.
The 2020 Finder Retail Awards recognise brand sentiment from customer feedback in different retail product categories. Finder worked with leading data, insights and consulting company Kantar to conduct thousands of interviews on customers' product purchasing history and their satisfaction with their purchased products.
Lavazza offers a variety of coffee bean lines such as ¡Tierra! Bio-Organic, Qualità Oro and Espresso Barista. The brand's ¡Tierra! Bio-Organic line offers coffee beans sourced organically, while Qualità Oro has blends from six different kinds of Arabica beans.
Apart from versatile flavours, Lavazza offers different coffee intensities, from level 5 to level 7. The brand also offers products with a mixture of both Arabica and Robusta beans.
ALDI
ALDI's Lazzio offers different types of roasts, including light roast, medium-dark roast and dark roast. The brand's coffee beans are craft roasted in Melbourne and come in 500g and 1lkg bags. You can also get ground coffee beans from the brand.
In 2018, Lazzio's Medium Roast Coffee Bean won the Golden Bean Competition's Chain/Franchise Filter Coffee category. The competition is the world's largest global roasters competition.
Established in 1895 in Turin, Italy, the brand now manufactures its coffee beans in various plants across the globe. Some of its products are manufactured in India, France and Brazil.
Lavazza's coffee beans come in bags of 100g, 500g and 1kg. Its Barista Espresso range offers professional drum roasted and espresso ground beans. Lavazza also offers instant coffees, ground coffees and coffee pods.
ALDI
In 2014, ALDI partnered with Black Bag Roasters to create the Lazzio brand, aiming to deliver the café experience to their customers' homes.
Apart from a variety of roasts, Lazzio offers single sourced coffee beans. Some of the beans are sourced in Peru, Colombia, Honduras and Brazil. The brand's products are also UTZ certified and 100% sustainable.
Vittoria offers a wide range of options, including espresso coffee beans, Oro coffee beans and Bianco coffee beans. The brand also has decaffeinated options that are 100% chemical-free. Some variants are 100% Rainforest Alliance certified as well.
Apart from Arabica beans, the brand has a 100% organic option. Vittoria coffee beans come in 200g, 500g and 1kg bags. The brand also sells ground coffee and coffee pods.
The 2020 Finder Retail Awards recognise brand sentiment from customer feedback in different retail product categories. Finder worked with leading data, insights and consulting company Kantar to conduct thousands of interviews on customers' product purchasing history and their satisfaction with their purchased products.
Disclaimer: Please refer to our methodology for more information on how we scored and judged Finder Retail Awards candidates. While we endeavour to assess the majority of product providers in the market, this is not always possible and it may be that not every brand in the market was included for judging.
Overall rating | Value for money | Taste | Texture | Aroma | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Caffe Aurora | 4.00 | 4.07 | 4.13 | 4.09 | 4.18 |
Campos | 4.04 | 3.71 | 4.07 | 4.14 | 3.82 |
Coles | 4.23 | 4.27 | 4.08 | 4.10 | 4.17 |
Gloria Jeans | 4.26 | 3.78 | 4.28 | 4.22 | 4.16 |
Grinders | 4.20 | 4.10 | 4.18 | 4.18 | 4.38 |
Harris | 3.98 | 3.94 | 4.02 | 3.96 | 4.00 |
Lavazza | 4.46 | 4.19 | 4.58 | 4.35 | 4.60 |
Lazzio (ALDI) | 4.42 | 4.44 | 4.51 | 4.40 | 4.44 |
Vittoria | 4.34 | 4.22 | 4.44 | 4.28 | 4.62 |
Woolworths | 4.02 | 4.08 | 3.90 | 3.90 | 3.98 |
Other | 4.58 | 4.34 | 4.62 | 4.50 | 4.64 |
Looking for more options? Our coffee-loving editorial team read hundreds of real customer reviews on Amazon Australia, Google Reviews and Product Reviews to curate the list below.
Lavazza Qualità Rossa Coffee Beans have a 4.7 out of 5 star rating on Amazon Australia from more than 4,700 online reviews.
Lavazza has been producing quality coffee beans since 1895, when the first Lavazza store opened in Turin, Italy. It has provided delicious flavoursome coffee beans ever since.
An all-rounder, Qualità Rossa Coffee Beans create a full-bodied coffee with notes of chocolate and dried fruit. Together with a golden crema, warm colour and unique aroma, they offer top-notch quality at an appealing price.
Campos Superior Beans have received many awards, in particular, 2020 Champion Australia Roaster at the Australian International Coffee Awards, the only international roasting competition in Australia.
As the Campos flagship blend, this product consists of medium to dark roasted beans that produce a full-bodied coffee with flavours of caramel, butterscotch and milk chocolate. It's the company's best selling product, and since hitting the supermarket shelves it's now more readily available.
Most coffee beans in Australia are medium to dark roasted, with lighter roasted options harder to come by. However, this Starbucks Veranda Blend has a 4.7 out of 5 star rating on Amazon from more than 10,500 online reviews.
The Starbuck Veranda Blend consists of the company's lightest roasted beans. This product provides a pleasant and mellow flavour with subtle hints of milk, soft cocoa and gently toasted nuts.
Grinders' Crema Coffee Beans have a 4.5 out of 5 star rating on Amazon Australia from nearly 200 online reviews. These beans are also the top-selling roasted beans on Amazon today.
Since starting out in Melbourne in 1962, Grinders has steadily grown in popularity throughout Australian cafes and restaurants. Medium roasted, these beans provide a soft and creamy coffee with hints of cocoa, malt and honey. They also offer a nutty, fruity aroma and a silky aftertaste. To top it off, they are certified organic and free from pesticides and additives.
These Sons of Amazon coffee beans have a 4.4 out of 5 star rating on Amazon Australia from over 300 online customer reviews, and they're one of Amazon's choice products.
Sons of Amazon coffee beans are not for the faint-hearted. Carefully selected, the beans are roasted to maximum caffeine levels to leave you with a bold strong coffee, with a soft crema and no bitter aftertaste.
The beans are ethically sourced from the Amazon, where farmers receive a fair trade price on the coffee and the land they grow it on.
In 2013, the original Industry Beans cafe opened in Fitzroy, Melbourne to rave reviews, with a rating 4.4 out of 5 stars from over 12,00 Google customer reviews. Now also open in Sydney and Brisbane, its beans are growing in popularity, with its signature blend, the Fitzroy Street Espresso Blend, ranked as the 7th best-selling coffee beans on Amazon Australia.
Industry Beans takes its coffee extremely seriously and prides itself on ethical business practices. The Fitzroy Street Espresso blend is the house espresso at the cafes in Melbourne and Sydney and is the most unique of all its espresso blends. Three different beans are brought together to create a distinguished flavour with tones of blackcurrant, blood orange and chocolate. It's a versatile espresso blend suitable for drinking black or with milk.
Keep an eye out for these factors to find the best coffee beans for your personal taste:
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