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Blue Mountain coffee is the most superior coffee in the world, and the yield is small, and the substance is rare. The Blue Mountains are located in the eastern part of Jamaica Island. They are named because they are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea. Whenever the weather is clear, the sun shines directly on the blue sea, and the peaks reflect the bright blue light of the sea. The highest peak of Blue Mountain is 2256 meters above sea level, which is the highest peak in the Caribbean and a famous tourist attraction.

Located in the coffee belt, it has fertile volcanic soil, fresh air, no pollution, humid climate, foggy and rainy all year round (average precipitation is 1980 mm, temperature is about 27 degrees). This climate has created the world-famous Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and also created the highest price coffee in the world. This kind of coffee has all the characteristics of good coffee, not only the taste is rich and mellow, but also because the sweet, sour and bitter flavors of coffee are perfectly matched, so there is no bitterness at all, only moderate and perfect sourness.

There are three varieties of coffee in Jamaica: Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica High Mountain Supreme Coffee Beans and Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans. Among them, Blue Mountain Coffee and Alpine Coffee are divided into four grades.

From the top to the bottom of the quality points are: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3 and PB, PB is round beans. According to CIB standards, only coffee grown above 666 meters above sea level is called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee; coffee grown below 666 meters in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica is called Alpine Coffee; coffee grown outside the Blue Mountains is called Jamaica Coffee. It turns out that Chinese coffee industry generally has a wrong understanding that only coffee grown in the Blue Mountain area above 1800 meters above sea level can be called Blue Mountain Coffee.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is the best variety of Arabica with low quantity and good quality. The harvest period is from June to November every year. Generally, it is picked by hand. After picking, it goes through washing, peeling, fermentation, dehydration, drying, shelling and baking in order to get a good quality ripe blue mountain coffee bean.

In the green bean processing process, each step has a special person responsible for quality supervision. For the very precious Blue Mountain coffee, the packaging and transportation methods adopted by the Jamaica government are also different. Blue Mountain coffee is not packed and transported in bags like other coffees, but in barrels with a standard of 70 kg/barrel. Jamaica was also the last country to still ship coffee in traditional barrels.

Brazil, the world's largest coffee exporter, produces 30 million bags of coffee a year, while Blue Mountain produces only about 40,000 bags a year.

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