Yunnan katim coffee is the status quo of yunnan coffee katim varieties?

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Katim Coffee beans _ Yunnan Katim Coffee beans

Yunnan coffee is to carry the banner of Chinese boutique coffee, coffee varieties are mainly Arabica species, in more detail, more than 90% is Catimor.

Let's first take a look at the consanguinity of Timor, which is a cross between Timor and Caturra.

Timo is a cross between Arabica and Robusta, and it can be called "Arabica bean" because its chromosomes are 44 of Arabica rather than 22 of Robusta.

In 1959, the Portuguese moved Kaddura of Brazil to East Timor to cross with Timo, who was of Robusta descent, and successfully developed a disease-resistant and highly productive Katimo.

Between 1970 and 1990, leaf rust affected coffee producing countries around the world. With the help of international organizations, various producing countries vigorously promoted Katimo species to fight leaf rust and increase production capacity.

Cartimo coffee is characterized by low tree height and large fruit.

Although the Katimo species inherits the advantages of Robusta's strong disease resistance, it also inherits the gene with poor flavor.

Therefore, Yunnan beans can only be medium-and low-grade commercial beans for a long time.

Over the decades, many botanists have studied the improvement of katimo varieties, and dozens of new varieties have been cultivated. The quality of Yunnan coffee has also improved by leaps and bounds.

Since 2014, Ted Lingle, co-founder of the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) and the Coffee quality Research Institute (CQI), began to pay attention to Yunnan coffee. First, as a judge of the Pu'er Raw Bean Competition, and then as a senior adviser to the Yunnan Coffee Trading Center, he devoted himself to docking with SCAA and CQI from the source. He proposed that "the foundation of fine coffee lies in curry farmers", which has really promoted the upgrading of Yunnan boutique coffee.

In the two Yunnan raw bean competitions in 2016 and 2017, the quality of coffee has reached a new level every year, which is impressive.

The score of the champion of the second Yunnan Coffee Raw Bean Competition in 2017 broke last year's record of 85.5455, with the top 12 all above 80.

What is the concept of 80 points? 80 points define the "threshold of boutique" among all coffee makers.

I'm not taking it personally, but maybe the beans used in many stores don't reach this baseline.

It is also interesting to say that there are also some local varieties of raw beans, such as Rosa, Itsuka, Bourbon, etc., but they can not shake Katimo's dominant position, and it also reflects Yunnan's success in adapting to the improvement of Katimo, and at the same time, it can also see the development potential of other varieties.

This answers the second question: China, especially Yunnan, also has good coffee.

The first Banan coffee I tasted during the 2017 Shanghai Exhibition, very high quality sour fruit, sweet aftertaste.

At the global promotion meeting of "Open China: charming Yunnan World sharing" held on February 20, 2017, Foreign Minister Wang Yi praised Yunnan's Pu'er tea and coffee, especially Hougu Coffee. "it's the best coffee I've ever had in many countries all over the world."

On April 22nd, the Yunnan International Coffee Trading Center will open an auction of the top 12 winners of the raw bean competition at the SCA boutique coffee show in Seattle, sharing with Ted Lingle's words for Yunnan coffee-good coffee.

Introduction to the taste characteristics of the variety flavor description of Katim coffee beans