Chinese Blue Mountain Coffee is all fake? How much is the authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee beans?

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"Blue Mountain Coffee Jamaica Blue Mountain", famous, should be the most famous boutique coffee in China.

In the early years, there were no formal import channels in China, and some unscrupulous businessmen concocted "Blue Mountain-flavored coffee beans" and "Blue Mountain coffee" with other coffee beans to confuse the public. As a result, claims such as "Blue Mountain coffee in domestic cafes are fake" and "Blue Mountain coffee cannot be bought in China" have spread to this day, which comes from a program on CCTV in 2010. Although the blue mountain flavor on Taobao still exists, the idea that there are no real blue mountains in China is a thing of the past 10 years ago.

Since 2011, Jamaica has attached great importance to the Chinese market, and even the conspicuous red five stars can be seen on the CIB (The Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica) home page http://www.ciboj.org/. Now it is not difficult to buy blue mountain coffee beans in China.

Where does the name "Blue Mountain" come from?

The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of the island of Jamaica, hence its name because it is surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. On clear days, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea.

The Blue Mountains is located in Jamaica, the highest peak is 2256 meters above sea level, is the highest peak in the Caribbean, located in the coffee belt, with fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, humid climate, foggy and rainy all the year round (the average precipitation is 1980 mm, the temperature is about 27 degrees) this climate has created the world-famous Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.

Raw bean grading of "Blue Mountain Coffee"

The Government of Jamaica established CIB (Jamaica Coffee Industry Council, the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board) in 1950, which is the government agency responsible for coffee affairs in Jamaica, which is responsible for supervising, regulating and guiding the cultivation, processing and trade of coffee in Jamaica. The committee has set quality standards for Jamaican coffee:

Only the qualified coffee beans in the above legal producing areas can be marked with the round mark of "Blue Mountain Coffee"!

In the past, there was a saying that "only coffee grown in the Blue Mountains above 1800 meters above sea level can be called Blue Mountain Coffee." In fact, on the top of more than 1800 of the Blue Mountains, there is only one manor, Amber (line 5 in the table below), which belongs to Lyn (Lin), a native of Guangdong, China. The manor has only 30 hectares of land and has very little yield. The legal producing areas of Blue Mountain Coffee are mainly distributed in 5 mountainous areas, such as John Crow,St.John's Peak,Mossman's Peak,High Peak,Blue Mountian Peak in the Blue Mountains, with 21 authorized dealers.

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