The bag opens with a soft rustle, and even before the beans hit the grinder, the kitchen already smells like coffee from Modena: a round, sweet, barely lively espresso that one drinks without sugar because it doesn't need any.

First sip, and I am in Modena. It begins with the scent, warm and rounded, even before the cup touches my lips. Then the sweetness arrives, natural, with a little spark of acidity that wakes everything up without ever biting. The body is light, almost silky, and keeps the aroma in the foreground. Around the table, no one says a word for a moment. It lingers, sweet and clean, and I already know I’m going to pour myself another one.

There are coffees that are just a hot drink you swallow to wake up. This is not one of them.

In Modena, early in the morning, the grinder turns even before the metal shutter is fully raised. The regulars lean against the counter, no one is in a hurry, and the cups arrive one after the other, small, dark, capped with a fine golden crema. No one asks for sugar. The coffee is already sweet enough to keep a conversation going.

Extra Dolce is Molinari's answer to that morning. A fine blend, built around sweetness and aroma, with a delicate cup and a pleasant acidity that keeps everything alive without ever becoming sharp. The body remains light and elegant rather than heavy, so that the sweetness and the fragrance can have their say. It arrives in beans, in a generous 1 kg bag: you grind it at the last moment, and the aroma is yours before the first drop.

You don't buy this to "have coffee at home." You buy it for the moment when the beans fall into the grinder and the kitchen changes, for the cup you hold with both hands before saying a word, for the slow Sunday coffee that becomes a second because no one feels like getting up.

And on a January morning, anywhere in Canada, when the windows are white with frost and the thermometer refuses to climb, a bag of this does something quietly remarkable. The beans are ground, the aroma fills the room, the first sip arrives sweet and warm, and for a few minutes, it is no longer an ordinary winter morning. You are somewhere in Emilia-Romagna, leaning against a zinc counter, and the day can wait.

Why our customers love it

A fine blend, with a sweet and aromatic character, for a delicate cup
Aroma ★★★★★

 Sweetness ★★★★★

 giving it that Italian morning coffee feel
Acidity ★★★★★

 lively and pleasant, never aggressive
Body ★★★☆☆

light and elegant rather than heavy
In beans, in a 1 kg bag: grind on demand for an aroma at its best
Molinari, roaster from Modena, Italy
The kind of coffee that transforms a weekday morning into a little trip to Italy
A bag you open telling yourself "just one cup" and which always ends up promising a second