Just finished my supply of 100% arabica Carte noir and purchased a new pack.only to find it's changed to a blended version at the same price! Issue is that it now tastes like a cheap Aldi coffee. There is a bitter after taste that lingers in your mouth. The smell is just not there. It looks like cheap coffee, it tastes like cheap coffee. Therefore it must be CHEAP COFFEE. I will be returning this pack. Don't get caught out!

I cannot recall any product degenerating as drastically as Carte Noire. It is a disgrace for French coffee makers and generally French public. You must be very talented to manage to turn the best coffee into the worst one. Where is its marvellous aroma? Where has its irresistible flavour gone? Obviously into the pockets of some greedy and dishonest "people". The original producers are also to blame. Decent businessmen should not sell their brand to some Scoundrels.

We always drank Carte Noire decaf instant. It was the nearest thing to fresh ground coffee we'd ever found. I bought a jar recently and noticed the different label so I did a taste test on my husband between the dregs of the old jar and the newly opened one. The dregs won hands down. I won't buy this product again in the UK but I will have a look in France to see if they still sell the real thing.