Taste the bean imported caribbean coffee

Although representing only 0.02% of the world market volume, Blue Mountain Coffee or ‘Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee’ is a special classification of coffee grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. The Jamaican coffee farmer earns one of the highest returns per box of coffee cherries sold worldwide.

The coffee was introduced to Jamaica in 1728. The best lots of Blue Mountain coffee are noted for their mild flavour and lack of bitterness. Its sophisticated, wet-processed (washed), silky smooth, well-balanced, excellent full body, with a classic and refined mild taste encompasses a slightly (and unusually) sweet flavor that is extraordinarily rich (sometimes almost creamy). Just describing it makes you want to… drink it!

-It has been claimed that coffee is second to oil in terms of world commodity trading and that it provides employment for around 20 million people!

-The name ‘coffee’ may be derived from the Arabic “qahwah”; or alternatively may have arisen due to the connection with the province Kaffa, in Ethiopia.

-The coffee tree is indigenous to Ethiopia, not Arabia as many tend to think and belongs to the genus Coffea of the Rubianceae, or madder, family.

-The Blue Mountain itself, in Jamaica, is approximately 1,500 hectares

-Only the ripe cherries are accepted for processing after being hand-picked and sun-dried in the
traditional way.

-Japan imports 85% of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, and in 1997 its retail price [in Japan] ranged from US$ 100 to $130 per kilogram!

-A blend must have a minimum of 30% Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee once the name and logo trademark is used.

We should always research and consider the products’ practices and economics to be better informed on the quality and ethics of your coffee purchase, especially when it comes to very high-end coffee. This will not only help improve sustainability and working conditions, but also the quality of life for people around the world in the coffee industry.