Primavera Coffee Roasters

Borgia

In modern American café parlance, a Borgia is typically some sort of orange and chocolate flavoured espresso beverage. Our particular incarnation is a ten ounce, orange essence infused version of our Mocha. As nearly as our extensive internet researching can discover, the name must come from that illustrious Spanish-Italian family whose infamy dates back to the Renaissance. The sound of the name Borgia does have a bit of Italian flair, as seems to be prerequisite for any espresso culture vernacular. Also, the family originated from Valencia, the region of Spain now famous for its excellent orange trees, thus connoting the orange part of the drink. As with any etymology whose bibliography is exclusively drawn from the pages of Wikipedia, this is not guaranteed to be completely accurate. It is our best guess and we are sticking to it (for now).

To make the drink we start by grating to order orange zest which is then placed in the organic milk that will be used for the drink. While this begins infusing, we pull our normal double ristretto shot into an old fashioned glass. Next we mix dark chocolate syrup into the expresso and garnish with sprinkles of Dagoba chocolate powder. We then steam the orange zest milk, which really brings out the aromatic orange oils into the milk, before straining out the orange zest. Finally we pour the exquisitely textured milk into the dark chocolate expresso mixture.

Our Borgias were available for a limited time at the price of $4.00. The response was so good that we decided to make the Borgia the first in a series of seasonal special drinks. If you missed out on the Borgia this time around, fret not, it will be back next year (or really the end of this year). We are currently finishing up the details of a new special drink to complement the beautiful warming weather so look for that soon!