Yunnan small grain coffee which tastes better? Yunnan coffee is the most famous small grain coffee.

Professional coffee knowledge exchange more coffee bean information please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style)

Qianjie-introduction of Coffee varieties in Yunnan

The climate of Yunnan has a large temperature difference between day and night; the seasonal temperature difference is small, such as spring all the year round, and high altitude. Negotiate to provide a very good growing environment for coffee. With the change of people's concept of coffee, Yunnan has begun to step into the stage of high-quality coffee. The climate types of the province are rich and diverse, including north tropics, south subtropics, mid-subtropics, north subtropics, south temperate zone, middle temperate zone and plateau climate zone.

Average altitude

The elevation is generally 1500 mi 2200 m above sea level, and even up to 3000 mi 4000 m in the north. Only in the southwestern border area, the terrain is gradually gentle, the river valley is open, generally at an altitude of 800-1000 meters. The highest point is Kagbo Peak (northwest) in Deqin County on the border between Yunnan and Tibet, 6740 meters above sea level, and the lowest point is at the confluence of Nanxi River and Yuanjiang River in Hekou County (southeast) on the border with Vietnam, only 76.4m above sea level.

Small-grain coffee is suitable for growing in the mountains at an altitude of 800 to 1800 meters. If the altitude is too high, it will taste sour, and if it is too low, it will taste bitter. Small grains of coffee are mostly planted in dry and hot valleys about 1100 meters above sea level, so they are moderately sour, rich and mellow. There is a unique environment suitable for the growth of small seed coffee in many areas of Yunnan, and the quality of small seed coffee is excellent.

Main varieties

Today, the main variety in Yunnan is Katim, which is a natural hybrid of Robsta and Arabica and then crossed with Kaddura. Kaduai is planted in a small number of producing areas, but the current situation is only experimental planting.

Iron pickup is also one of the coffee varieties in Yunnan, is a genetic mutant in Arabica, inherited Arabica good flavor genes, even in Yunnan can still grow a pleasant aroma, mild sour coffee flavor.

Knowledge: as early as 1892, a missionary from France brought coffee to Yunnan and successfully planted the first coffee tree in a place called Zhu Kula.

In short: Qianjie is a coffee research hall, happy to share the knowledge about coffee with you, we share unreservedly just to make more friends fall in love with coffee, and there will be three low-discount coffee activities every month. The reason is that Qianjie wants to make more friends drink the best coffee at the lowest price, which has been Qianjie's tenet for 6 years!

END