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Jamaica Blue Mountain® Coffee is one of the most prized coffees in the world and we are so excited to be able to bring it to you!
Our coffee comes from the Blue Baron Estate in Buff Bay, in the Parish of Portland, which is one of the few parishes that produce certified Jamaica Blue Mountain® Coffee. The estate is owned by the Minott family of Mandeville, Jamaica, who have been in the coffee business for over 70 years!
Coffee is grown all across Jamaica but only coffee cultivated in the Blue Mountains at altitudes of 3000-5500 feet (900-1600 meters) can be certified as Jamaica Blue Mountain® Coffee. The growing zone is determined by The Jamaican Coffee Industry Regulation Act and currently covers about 6000 hectares total.
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Grab a bag from our eshop. Once these amazing beans are gone, they are gone!
What makes this small area so special?
The combination of rich, volcanic soil and the microclimate: mild temperatures of around 22ºC, abundant rain and the almost perpetual fog, also known as “the mist”, caused by the contrast between the heat of the ground and the cold mountain winds shielding the coffee plants from the direct sunlight.
The ripe coffee cherries are then picked by hand by a team of trained harvesters.
Only cherries that are perfectly ripe are picked and each tree can be revisited up to twenty times during one harvesting period!
These cherries are then pulped, fermented, dried on trays, cured, hulled and then once again carefully inspected by hand to ensure they are void of any imperfections before they can be approved by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica.
The coffee only receives the internationally renowned Blue Mountain Seal of Approval if all the requirements are met and the board is satisfied.
After this process the beans are carefully packed into traditional handmade wooden barrels for export.
Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee is the only coffee in the world that gets transported in wooden barrels instead of jute sacks.
These barrels are handmade from white wood and prevent outside odours and flavours from contaminating the coffee.
Another reason why this coffee is so rare in our neck of the woods is because Japan controls about 80% of the exports of this already scarce and desirable product.
With under 2 million pounds (just under 1 tonne) of coffee produced annually (under 1% of global coffee production), there isn’t much of it available for the rest of the world…
TASTING NOTES: BALANCED ACIDITY, ROUND BODY, NOTES OF FRUIT AND FLORAL OVERTONES.
VARIETAL: Blue Mountain
PROCESS: washed
ALTITUDE: 915 - 1100 masl.
ROAST LEVEL: medium
Grab a bag from our eshop. Once these amazing beans are gone, they are gone!
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