This coffee with これ
Vocabulary Explanation: This with これ

Cocoa tries to show off her ability to recognize the three types of coffee Chino made for her.
- ココア:
- 「この上品な香
( り! これがブルーマウンテンかー」- “What a refined aroma! So this is Blue Mountain, huh?”
- チノ:
- 「いいえコロンビアです」
- “No, that's Columbian.”
Key Points
1これ points to the coffee Cocoa is holding
- これ means “this” because the cup of coffee is on Cocoa’s side of the conversation, close to her as the speaker.
2この modifies 香( り
- この上品
( な香( り means “this refined aroma”; この must attach directly to a noun, here 香( り.
3これが marks the item being identified
- In これがブルーマウンテン, が singles out this coffee as the thing Cocoa is trying to identify.
4かー shows Cocoa’s drawn-out realization or guess
- The ending かー gives the line a casual, drawn-out feel, like “So this is Blue Mountain, huh.”
- Chino’s immediate いいえ shows that Cocoa sounded confident enough to be corrected.
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