I don't care for coffee. It's hot. I prefer cold. It's bitter. I prefer sweet. I am not in the market for an $11,000 Mr. Coffee.

Granted, some bottles of wine sell for thousands of dollars. A few for even more. Good wine is an acquired taste. Good coffee is not.

What would you expect from an $11,000 coffee maker? Very, very good coffee. The Clover 1s is an expensive coffee maker at $11,000. It makes coffee one cup at a time.

Mass production hasn't been a hit at the small Seattle company that produces and sells the hand-built Clover 1s coffee machine. The Clover makes perfect coffee every time, from bean to brew.

Variables in coffee making are the norm. Everyone makes coffee a little bit different so the taste i always a little different, but it's always coffee. Hot and bitter.

The Clover limits the variables to what a true coffee lover loves; the coffee bean, the grind, the 'dose' of coffee, the brewing time, the temperature, and the choice and amount of water. Those variables are more than enough for a drink that is mostly hot and bitter.

Did you ever wonder why coffee drinkers add sugar and milk?

Hot water goes on to coffee grounds which steeps for a specific amount of time, then the grounds are separated from the water with a vacuum. The end result is a clump of coffee grounds and a perfectly brewed cup of coffee.

Perfect? If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then a rose by any other name is still a rose. Coffee is coffee.

Modify the variables, beans and water and heat, and suddenly coffee becomes a cooked wine full of brightness, floral aromas, notes.

My God, people. It's coffee. Or, rather, it's coffee from the $11,000 Clover 1s.