St. Helen Island Coffee Green bourbon Elaraby Coffee introduction

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Helen Island, with an area of only 121square kilometers and a population of no more than 10, 000, is a volcanic island in the vast Atlantic Ocean, belonging to the United Kingdom, 1950 kilometers from the west coast of Africa and 3400 kilometers from the east coast of America. Cyan bourbon coffee grows here, with a typical South Pacific coffee soft fruit aroma and strong caramel flavor characteristics, due to scarce production, expensive.

In the past, you could taste the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world only on an isolated island. This green bourbon Elaraby coffee originally from Yemen has been grown on Saint Helena Island in the South Atlantic since 1733. This coffee, which Napoleon called "the only valuable thing on this volcanic island", has been forgotten for a hundred years. It was recognized at the Crystal Palace World Expo in London in 1851.

Like coffee, St. Helen Island is also an undesirable tourist destination for travelers. It takes five and a half days to travel from Cape Town to St. Helen Island by boat, and the construction of the airport is still being postponed indefinitely. Although the development of local tourism is slow due to geographical constraints, the coffee industry is experiencing a strong recovery. Coffee trees planted in the inland mountains of the island produce a unique flavor, unlike coffee from other producing areas. St. Helen Island coffee genes remain primitive and very pure.

In September, Starbucks Reserve officially introduced St. Helens Island Coffee (previously served only by Harrods, a cafe in London). Overcoming the difficulties and obstacles, Ann Traumann, head of raw bean purchasing at Starbucks, finally brought the mysterious coffee back to the world, describing that when she first arrived there, all the recently picked raw beans were sold out.

St. Helen Island currently has two small plantations, but the local coffee industry is gradually expanding. The production process of coffee requires 100% love. Starting with the fruit, the cyan fruit ripens from December to January of the following year. After being picked by hand, the fruit is fermented in a container, washed with the clear springs of Mount St. Helens and dried in the warm sunshine of the island.

After careful roasting, the coffee has a soft aroma of fruit and caramel, perfect interpretation of its Yemeni origin and South Pacific region characteristics, like other Starbucks Reserve coffee, each cup of St. Helens Island coffee tells people the origin story, its taste not only reflects the unique climate and geological features of St. Helen Island, but also shows the unique processing technology of coffee. And the long history of St. Helens.

Even so, it's not easy to drink St. Helens Coffee, says Traumann. Starbucks produces just 220lb of St. Helen Coffee (accounting for 1 pound of annual local coffee production), which is literally an once-in-a-lifetime rare coffee. If you miss out on this precious coffee that costs $80 / 8.8 ounces, you may have to cross the ocean like Napoleon to find St. Helens, a volcanic island hidden in the South Pacific.