St. Helena Coffee is famous for its Coffee Culture

History records that Napoleon had a passion for coffee trees, planted several coffee seedlings near Longwood Villa himself, and even wanted to harvest coffee fruits himself one day. However, due to the steep terrain and strong wind and rain, the saplings died in a few months, which seemed ominous to him. Napoleon was also fastidious about the water he used for his coffee. He personally inspected the springs on the island and pointed out that he wanted to use the beautiful spring of the Valley of Wisdom. Perhaps he thought that drinking coffee from the spring of the Valley of Wisdom would keep his mind clear forever. This is also a good story.

Napoleon has been addicted to coffee since he was young. When he courted his first wife Josephine in 1795, she often entertained Napoleon with coffee grown by the family on Martinique Island. Now a prisoner on St. Helena, he drinks coffee in a very different context, but fine coffee cups and coffee incense are still his only sustenance. Fortunately, St. Helena, which was blocked by nature, had coffee trees, so self-sufficiency was not a problem. Otherwise, due to the remote location of the island, Britain could not have specially transported coffee to Napoleon to relieve his addiction.

The governor of the island, Lowe, learned that coffee was Napoleon's favourite drink, and once visited him personally with freshly roasted St. Helena coffee. Napoleon asked for greater freedom of movement, not to go where there are a group of people watching, but was refused by Luo, both sides broke up. This was the first and last time the governor visited Napoleon. Napoleon was denied freedom of movement, and after the governor had left he cursed: "The governor is an abomination... to talk face to face with such a person is to lose one's appetite for conversation, and one does not even want coffee!" His housekeeper suspected that Lo was a weasel giving a New Year's greeting to a chicken, and that the coffee beans might have been coated with poison and intended to be discarded, but Napoleon prevented them: "Don't waste the good things." Good coffee is precious in this godforsaken place!"

A hundred years later, the phrase was changed to the current version: "Coffee is St. Helena's only good thing!" Although the meaning is similar, it is different from the original saying. St. Helena coffee is famous for Napoleon's words back to Paris, and has won many European tasting awards.