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Illy

illy Whole Bean Coffee, Classico Medium Roast

Roasted with Precision: Our high quality, medium roast beans are mild and balanced with intricate notes of caramel, orange blossom and jasmine for a smooth taste and sweet finish that’s full of flavor.

8.4 /10
★★★★☆ Highly Recommended Overall Score · 80% expert / 20% community Ranked #847 of 1193 (Top 71%)
Our Coffee Score 8.1
Coffee Lovers Score 9.4
Overall Ranked #847 of 1193 (Top 71%)
Ground Coffee Ranked #188 of 200 (Top 94%)
Our Coffee Score Ranked #969 of 1193 (Top 82%)
Coffee Lovers Ranked #114 of 1193 (Top 10%)

Our verdict: Ranked #187 of our top 200 ground coffee — a strong medium pick with caramel, smooth, sweet notes, earning a 4.7★ average across 2,291 Amazon ratings.

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Key facts

Roast
Medium
Origin
Multi-region blend
Process
Roasted
Size
8.8 oz
Price / oz
$11.13
Best for
Drip, French Press, Espresso, Moka Pot

Flavor notes

CaramelSmoothSweet

The Coffee Score review

Roasted with Precision: Our high quality, medium roast beans are mild and balanced with intricate notes of caramel, orange blossom and jasmine for a smooth taste and sweet finish that’s full of flavor. Our team spent hands-on time with the illy Whole Bean Coffee, Classico Medium Roast to see how it holds up against the rest of the ground coffee we've tested.

Across repeated sessions we evaluated it on the categories that matter most: quality, consistency, value, and how likely we are to reach for it again. Ranked #187 of our top 200 ground coffee — a strong medium pick with caramel, smooth, sweet notes, earning a 4.7★ average across 2,291 Amazon ratings.

From the roaster

  • Roasted with Precision: Our high quality, medium roast beans are mild and balanced with intricate notes of caramel, orange blossom and jasmine for a smooth taste and sweet finish that’s full of flavor.
  • 100% Arabica Beans: We hand select only the finest Arabica beans to blend various types of Arabica coffee sourced from the finest farms in South and Central America, India and Africa to ensure each cup of coffee maintains consistent, exceptional quality.
  • Whole Bean Coffee: Our whole beans are meant for coffee drinkers who prefer to grind their own coffee beans in order to prepare for any method including espresso or drip coffee, with any coffee or espresso machine.
  • Sealed for Freshness: illy’s patented pressurized packaging seals in the coffee’s precious aromas and extends the freshness for our whole bean coffee until you’re ready to grind, brew, pour and sip.
  • Certified B Corp: illy is committed to sustainable initiatives, as the first Italian coffee company awarded a B Corp Certification, we strive to create positive economic, social, and environmental value for everyone involved in the production chain.

What we liked

  • Strong overall Coffee Score of 8.1/10 — ranked #847 of 1193 (71% percentile).
  • Distinct flavor profile: Caramel, Smooth, Sweet.
  • Community agrees — a Coffee Lovers Score of 9.4/10 from 2,291 ratings.

How we graded this coffee

Mass-market brand Grading framework
Taste 40% weight 9.6
Freshness 20% weight 8.2
Bean Quality & Sourcing 15% weight 7.8
Value 15% weight 4.3
Roast Quality 10% weight 8.5
Our Coffee Score (experts, 80% of overall) 8.1/10

The Coffee Lovers Score

Averages 4.7★ from 2,291 verified Amazon shoppers.

5 star 85%
4 star 7%
3 star 2%
2 star 2%
1 star 4%
  • sara liang Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Coffee lover

    The illy Classico Medium Roast is a premium, 100% Arabica blend that is perfect for coffee lovers who grind their own beans.• Key Strengths: It offers a consistently smooth, "mild and balanced" flavor without any harsh bitterness.• Experience: Grinding fresh beans provides a superior, rich aroma that elevates your daily brew.• Verdict: A sophisticated, high-quality daily staple for any coffee connoisseur.

  • Eastlady Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Best Italian coffee-it brings a taste of Italy to your home!

    This coffee is wonderful and is my preferred Italian coffee! Great taste and keeps so fresh in the metal cans.By buying it by the case , it is so much more affordable than from the grocery store!

    1 found this helpful

  • Amazon Customer Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Delicious!

    10/10 Coffee! We love it for our Jura coffee maker! Perfect acidity and boldness. So smooth!

    1 found this helpful

  • Steve W. Lewis Verified purchase ★★★★★

    Love, love, love this coffee!

    We have a Breville Coffee maker and spent a lot of time and money finding the “perfect” coffee bean to use with it. We considered things like taste, oiliness and price. Neither my husband or myself like strong coffee, so we tended to stay away from espresso beans. This coffee is just the right blend of mildness/flavor.

    12 found this helpful

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