Valenford, the oldest Blue Mountain Coffee Manor in the world.

Whether you know coffee or not, you must have heard of the name "Blue Mountain" and know that Blue Mountain Coffee in Jamaica is the most expensive and best coffee in the world. But not everyone knows why. Like Rolls-Royce cars and Stradivari violins, when something is called the best in the world, fame automatically steals the spotlight, so much so that fame often overlooks its content. So to find out what is good about Blue Mountain Coffee, be sure to walk into Wallenford Manor first, because it is the original source of the "Blue Mountain Myth".

Oldest Blue Mountain Manor

Coffee is Jamaica's main cash crop, this beautiful Caribbean small island has a mountain range, in a clear day will be blue water reflected a layer of light blue, so it is called "Blue Mountain." Blue Mountain sunny all year round and misty, unique environment so that the coffee grown here has a perfect balance of sweet, sour, bitter three flavors, so it has become the world's most famous top coffee.

But not all coffee produced in Jamaica can be called Blue Mountain Coffee! Although the island is dotted with coffee plantations, only coffee grown in the Blue Mountains above 2,000 feet above sea level certified by the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board (CIB) in the administrative regions of St. Andrew, Portland, St. Thomas and St. Mary is allowed to be called Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee. Wallenford Manor is one of the oldest and best quality coffee plantations.

In 1746, a British naval fleet arrived on Jamaica Island. The commander of the fleet, Sir Matthew Foran, a famous botanist, inspected the various plants on the island and bought a piece of land here. This is today Wallenford Coffee Farm. Since then, for nearly 300 years, the best Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee in the world has been grown here.

Blue Mountain, National Treasure of Jamaica

There is no doubt that the best Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee beans are born at Wallenford Manor, and in fact another reason why the estate is highly respected by coffee fans around the world is its national treasure status.

Wallenford Coffee Limited, founded by Wallenford Manor, is now a private company wholly owned by the Jamaica government, in other words the only "state-owned" coffee estate in Jamaica. Only the best Blue Mountain coffee is selected for processing; the quality process is particularly strict; the yield is very limited... These factors have shaped the image of Wallenford Manor as the "most stable and reliable coffee processing estate", and its products are designated as the highest level of Blue Mountain coffee, which is usually selected by the royal aristocracy due to its high price.

"Superior Quality" in the heart of the glutton

Why Blue Mountain Coffee Is So Expensive? This would probably be the question in everyone's mind, and the answer could be found at Wallenford Manor. Their coffee trees all grow on rugged hillsides, picking is very difficult, unless the local skilled female workers simply can not be competent; picking coffee fruit requirements must be strict, immature or ripe all give up, otherwise it will affect the quality of coffee; picked coffee beans must be shelled on the same day, fermented 12 to 18 hours after cleaning and screening, then natural drying, special storage, precision roasting... every procedure is not allowed to fail! In the evaluation of all Jamaica Blue Mountain estates by coffee lovers all over the world, Wallenford products perform best in management, stability, popularity and flavor, thus being praised as "Superior Quality" and "Absolute Quality" in coffee.