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St. Helena coffee can be traced back to 1733, brought into the seed cultivation by the British East India Company, exiled from the island after Napoleon's defeat, and praised St. Helena coffee, even on his deathbed, wanted to taste it again, contributing to the reputation of St. Helena coffee.

Wind: the color is amber, the flavor is between wild and mild and bright, with a rich fruity shadow of mocha beans and a spicy and chocolate finish.

Bouquet: stone fruit, hint of tea and chocolate.

It: the remote location makes St. Helena Island retain a pure ecology, volcanic geology provides extremely fertile soil, coupled with the concept of organic cultivation and preservation of the original small bean species, St. Helena Coffee has unique characteristics.

In the 15th century, the great navigation era began with the rapid development of world trade. In order to compete for unknown trade opportunities in the world, various explorers were driving their majestic sailboats, adventurous spirits and desirable commodities. Embarked on the voyage of conquering the sea.

In the 17th century, the British discovered coffee as a magical plant as far away as Yemen, and its charm conquered the proud British Empire. In order to get this magical bean, the British learned from France and the Netherlands, and also took the coffee tree from the port of Mocha in Yemen. Smuggled out, south through the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of good Hope of the storm waves to St. Helena Island to plant. Because there is no experience in growing coffee in Holland and France, the coffee planted here grows naturally. At that time, they did not know that the coffee tree they had stolen was another variety-Bourbon.

After Napoleon, 26, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Italian Front Army of the French Republic in 1769, he led the army of the French Republic and made many outstanding achievements. But the outstanding record did not bring the great strategist a glorious second half of his life. After the defeat of Russia, the great man fell to the bottom from the peak. After the defeat of Waterloo in 1815, Napoleon completely came to a dead end. after his defeat, Napoleon was sent to exile on St. Helena Island by the British. Napoleon tasted the coffee beans on St. Helena Island.

The Island of St Helena (St. Helena Island)

On May 21, 1502, the Portuguese Admiral Joao da Nova discovered the island of St. Helena. He landed in present-day Jamestown and built a chapel. For more than 80 years, the Portuguese did not make the island public, but used it as a replenishment site for their East Indian fleet.

In 1588, the captain of HMS Desire, an Englishman, Thomas Cavendish, also discovered St. Helena on a voyage around the world, which was often visited by British and Dutch ships. When the Dutch tried to take St. Helena Island for themselves in 1633, the British East India Company began to garrison and established a permanent colony in 1659.

In 1673, the Dutch occupied St. Helena Island, but it was retaken by the British four months later, and the East India Company was granted the right to operate the island until it was directly administered by the British royal family in 1834.

The light is dim

Although St. Helena coffee enjoyed high praise in the 19th century, the popularity did not continue, and even St. Helena Islanders seldom drank it afterwards.

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When David R.Henry visited St. Helena in 1986, he was honored to have a taste of the island's coffee with the Governor of St. Helena. This batch of coffee is grown in Plantation House, the Governor's residence on St. Helena Island, where a 260-year-old land turtle also lives, witnessing the origin and long history of St. Helena Coffee.

The source of the seed

On February 10, 1733, a ship from the British East India Company (The East India Company) from the Yemeni port of Moka brought Green Tipped Bourbon Coffee seeds, which began to be planted all over St. Helena and grew luxuriantly, even if neglected.

Once, the French proudly announced to the world that they have their own coffee, which is not from Arabia, but from their native "Bourbon". Their coffee is naturally different from Arabian coffee-round, whether it is intentional or ignorant by the French at that time, and really makes most people think that Bourbon Coffee is really the origin of Bourbon. It was not until the British planted round coffee with the isomorphic characteristics of Bourbon Island that the French lie came to light, because St. Helena's coffee in England had nothing to do with Bourbon Island at all. and the source is actually the same place-Yemen Mocha. Subsequently, this coffee, which was completely different from Tibica, quickly spread to Central and South America with colonial expansion.

Napoleon, as a coffee fanatic, came ashore and lived in Longwude Manor, where he began to write memoirs, dictated by him, and recorded and sorted out by the adjutant brought with him. During his exile from 1815 to 1821, the French dwarf praised St. Helena's coffee, which began to attract the world's attention and became popular in Paris. Beg for St. Helena's coffee before Napoleon's exiled Helena Island is about to die. His adjutant, Marshal Bertrand, said: I can't help but turn red when I see this once awesome man begging for a spoonful of coffee.

A man who has conquered the world is conquered by a cup of coffee and does not forget such a cup of coffee even when he is dying. Perhaps only those who have drunk this cup of coffee can really realize the secret of it, right?

cut a striking figure

When Napoleon was exiled on the island of St. Helena from 1815 to 1821, he praised St. Helena's coffee. St. Helena caffeine began to attract the world's attention and became popular in Paris.

It is becoming popular.

In 1839, Wm Burnie & Co, a London coffee merchant, said: "We introduce St. Helena Coffee to the industry, and its quality and flavor are consistently respected."

In 1845, St. Helena Coffee became the most expensive and unique coffee in the world at a price of 1 pence per pound.

In 1851, coffee grown on St. Helena Island was favored by judges at a coffee exhibition in London (The Great Exhibition).

The present St. Helena

St. Helena Island Coffee Company grows and handles coffee in a rigorous organic way and on its own basis. although it is remote and has not yet obtained official certification for organic cultivation, it is already in progress. St. Helena uses only natural fertilizers and livestock droppings are not used as fertilizers because feed or artificial farming processes may make their faeces contain non-organic matter. St. Helena is lucky to have plenty of bird droppings, which are collected from coastal rocks as natural fertilizer, dried and sprinkled under coffee trees at the beginning of the rainy season. St. Helena uses natural spring water from the mountains to wash and treat coffee beans.

St. Helena Green Tipped Bourbon coffee has a glossy surface after strict standard washing and, after moderate baking, has a bright, soft acidity and strong aroma, with citrus fruit aromas and caramel from Yemeni varieties.

"seeing this once awe-inspiring man now begging for a spoonful of coffee, I can't help but red my eyes." Napoleon adjutant Marshal Bertrand. St. Helena Island is located in the South Atlantic Ocean at longitude 5 °45 'west and latitude 16 °S. The southeast trade wind blows to the island on time every year. Although it covers an area of only 47 square miles, it is an island with a mountainous and subtropical climate. Its remote location preserves the purest ecological environment. On such a volcanic island, many legends were recorded and many beautiful legends were left behind.

The Coffee Story of Napoleon and St. Helena Island

Napoleon is a legendary man who knows how to enjoy. He likes to take a special carriage carrying his favorite Chambertin wine when he goes to war. He invented the brewing method of brandy coffee (that is, royal coffee) and carried a Turkish bean grinder with him, paying special attention to the quality of life while fighting the war. After his defeat, he was imprisoned on the island of St. Helena, and after the wine was no longer enjoyed every day, coffee became almost his only comfort. "Coffee is the only beautiful thing in St. Helena." Although this sentence has been proved to be not Napoleon's original words, it is still spread to this day. Decades before Napoleon was imprisoned on the island until his death, it was fashionable to taste the coffee shipped from St. Helena to Paris.

Napoleon did not fall in love with local coffee because of poverty and boredom. Although it was buried in a long history for more than a century, St. Helena's coffee regained the world's attention at the end of the 20th century under the re-operation of DavidR.Henry. The soil there is formed by volcanic eruptions, a large number of birds supply fertile bird droppings, and the Arabica bean bourbon seed is famous, which makes St. Helena Island has the potential of gourmet coffee even though it is not grown at high altitude.

In the past, only on the isolated island of St. Helena could you taste the rarest exotic coffee in the world-green pointed Bourbon Arabica Coffee (single strain Green Tipped Bourbon Arabica) (so complicated! Hereinafter referred to as "Green Tip bourbon" Coffee. Originally from Yemen, Green Tip bourbon was introduced to St. Helena Island (Saint Helena Island) by Captain Philips of the East India Company in 1733. It is the faithful companion of the last six years of Napoleon's life. Napoleon, who was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815, was exiled to this isolated island in the South Atlantic on October 16, and drinking St. Helena's coffee every day was his "only blessing on the island." Napoleon said, "with coffee, I would rather endure suffering than be numb all day."

Like the coffee here, St. Helena Island is also a fan of tourists. It takes five and a half days to travel from Cape Town to St. Helen Island by boat, and although the local tourism industry is developing slowly, the coffee industry is recovering strongly. Coffee trees planted on the slopes of St. Helena Island produce coffee beans with a unique flavor. Unlike other coffee producing areas, St. Helena Island is geographically remote and remote, so the genes of St. Helena Island Coffee can be kept in a primitive state. Very pure.

The prestigious St. Helena coffee was unveiled in the Starbucks selection series in September 2016 (previously only available at Harrods Cafe in London).

St. Helena Island currently has only two small plantations, but the scale of coffee cultivation on the island is gradually expanding. The production process of coffee is extremely fine. The green fruit gradually ripens and turns red from December to January of the following year. After hand-picking, the peel and pulp are removed, the fruit is fermented in a bucket, and then washed with the spring water of the volcano of St. Helena Island. Finally, it is dried on a set-up net bed.

After roasting, St. Helena Coffee has a slight fruit and caramel flavor, conveying its Yemeni origin and South Pacific growing characteristics. Like other selected coffee at Starbucks, each cup of St. Helena coffee not only reflects the unique planting conditions and processing technology of St. Helena Island, but also conveys the colorful history of St. Helena Island. it also tells people the sad story of Napoleon dying in the plea of "give me another spoonful of coffee."

In fact, it's not easy to get a cup of St. Helena's coffee. At present, Starbucks produces only 220 pounds of St. Helena coffee (accounting for 1x3 of the local annual coffee production). It is no exaggeration to say that this may be a rare coffee that you can only drink once in a lifetime. If you miss this $80 (8.8 oz) bag of coffee, you can only imagine yourself crossing the ocean like Napoleon, gazing at the crater and tasting St. Helena's coffee on a beautiful isolated island.

St. Helena Coffee

St. Helena Island, belonging to the United Kingdom, covers an area of 121square kilometers and has a population of about 5000. It is a volcanic island in the vast Atlantic Ocean, 1950 kilometers from the west coast of Africa and 3400 kilometers from the east coast of America. It is the final destination of Napoleon's life journey. The green pointed bourbon coffee grown here, with the light fruit and caramel flavor of typical South Pacific coffee, is extremely expensive because of celebrity and scarcity.

History: in 1733, green pointed bourbon (Green Tipped Bourbon Coffee) seeds were brought from the Yemeni port of Mocha by Captain Phillips of the East India Company to several places on St. Helena Island for planting. Coffee grew vigorously, but no one thought of exporting St. Helena's coffee to the rest of the world, until Napoleon, who was exiled here in his later years, praised the coffee on the island. In the years since Napoleon's death, St. Helena's coffee has been popular in big cities such as Paris.

In 1845, St. Helena Coffee became the most expensive and unique coffee in the world.

Take a look at how the report at that time recorded:

"there is a small coffee forest in St. Helena Island Coffee Manor, with 286 coffee trees producing about 428 pounds. On average, each coffee tree produces only about 1 million pounds of raw coffee beans, but in Sandy Bay, each coffee tree produces twice as much. "

In 1851, coffee from the Sandy Bay Bamboo hedge Cafe (Bamboo Hedge estate) on St. Helena Island won the grand prize at the Crystal Palace Fair (Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace) in London. The Zhu Lei Coffee Garden is still growing coffee.

Since then, coffee exports have become the main source of income for St. Helena, peaking in the 1950s, then declining and wiping out over the next 15 years.

In 1994, coffee cultivation on the island began to recover. According to St. Helena News, David Henry, a saint living in England, came to St. Helena in October to try to revive the coffee industry on St. Helena. At first, he bought the Zhu Lei Coffee Manor to grow coffee for export, hoping to expand the planting scale in the future. As the St. Helena Island government funded the coffee revival, several other farmers joined the growing team the following year.

Everything looks very beautiful. It is estimated that at that time, the coffee planting area was 18 acres, there were 20000 coffee trees, and the estimated annual production was about 12 tons of raw coffee beans, of which about 1 pound 3 would be used for export. But not all planters were successful, and the island's coffee industry was in crisis after tensions between farmers and pickers intensified in 2005 and 2006. David Henry returned to London in 2008, when only two acres of coffee land were left on the island at the end of that year. Although the current output has increased, it is far below the peak of the mountain (source: http://www.sthelenaisland.info/st-helena-coffee/).

In 2009, Solomon, a listed company on the island, began to take over the bamboo hedge coffee plantation and gradually resume coffee cultivation.

Solomon currently produces only 1.5 tons of raw beans a year, all of which are exported to the UK. St. Helena Coffee is a drop in the ocean compared to the total global production of 8.5 million tons of raw beans in 2014.

Peter, director of British imports at St. Helena Trading, said: "this season's output is only 200kg (440 pounds). How long can we last?"

The rare coffee is popular with independent roasters in the European Union, Russia, Japan, the United States, South Korea and Taiwan. Online retailers sell for 50 grams (1.75 ounces) £10 ($15) and 125 grams £21, excluding freight. On St. Helena Island, some small shops sell St. Helena coffee for 125 grams and £6.75.

Bolton, a 74-year-old British retiree, has lived on St. Helena Island since 1991. He has a small coffee garden on the island and produces less than 400kg of raw coffee beans a year. Coffee is grown and processed entirely by hand.

His neighbor, an innkeeper, is the fourth coffee grower on the island. He also owns a small shop in the capital, Jamestown. He only serves St. Helena's coffee to his guests.

The coffee on St. Helena Island is all organic coffee, although it is not certified.

In February 2016, the airport on the island finally opened to traffic, running once a week, ending the 10-day arduous sea journey originally required by boat. With the increase in the number of tourists, coffee producers on the island want to expand production, and Solomon is developing two other new farms, and hopes that all goes well and continues to expand production to at least 3muri 5 tons per year.

(source: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/04/19/world/napoleons-exile-isle-boasts-worlds-best-coffee/#.WBfgJo8rLIV)

Status quo: today, you can certainly buy St. Helena coffee at many restaurants or seaside coffee shops on St. Helena Island, some of which sell St. Helena coffee beans. But it's hard to get St. Helena's coffee in other parts of the world. In August 2015, the Harrods Cafe in London, currently the only supplier in the UK, began serving St. Helena Coffee at £60 per 100g of beans.