The oldest coffee in the world-- mocha coffee

Some people say that in coffee, Blue Mountain can be king and mocha can be called queen. Mocha coffee is the "oldest" coffee in the world, and its taste is consistent with antiquity and mellowness. Mocha coffee with a long history is synonymous with coffee. Its unique aroma and sour taste have attracted many coffee lovers.

Mocha coffee has the most unique, richest and most fascinating complex smell in the world: red wine, wild game, dried fruit, blueberries, grapes, cinnamon, tobacco, sweet spices, log, and even chocolate. Mocha coffee has a special taste and varied levels, like a woman's mood. When you taste it slowly, the feelings you can experience will not be repeated and change constantly. The more you taste, the more you drink a glass of red wine. Someone once said that if Mexican coffee can be compared to dry white wine, then Yemeni mocha is Bordeaux wine.

In his most authoritative book, Coffee World, historian Uks wrote: "for many years, Yemeni mocha coffee has been considered to be the best coffee available to people in the world. It is unique, fragrant and sour. At the same time, it has a distinctive spicy taste." The Yemeni mocha has distinct taste characteristics, it has a strong sour taste, and it has an obvious chocolate taste, the stronger the coffee, the easier it is to taste the chocolate. Naturally, adding hot chocolate to the coffee to make fancy mocha coffee will make people more aware of the unique taste of mocha.

Yemen is the first country in the world to produce coffee on a large scale as a crop. Today, Yemeni coffee farmers still produce coffee in the same way as they did 500 years ago. Some coffee farmers still use animals (such as camels and donkeys) as a source of stone grinding power, compared with those Central and South American countries that use advanced machinery and equipment to deal with coffee beans in large quantities, and even Kenya, which has a short history of coffee. Yemen Mocha is the only living monument in the coffee world! So the Yemeni mocha you drink today is basically not much different from the "Arabian coffee" enjoyed by aristocratic European businessmen hundreds of years ago in Europe's oldest cafe in Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy.

The Origin of Mocha

In 575 AD, the first coffee bean from Ethiopia took root in Yemen on the other side of the Red Sea. From then on, the coffee business around the world: mocha Coffee.

What exactly is "mocha"?

There are many answers to this question. some people say that mocha is from a certain place of origin; some people remember that mocha is sweet chocolate coffee. In fact, the authentic "mocha coffee" is only produced in the Republic of Yemen in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula and grows on the steep side of the mountain at an altitude of 900m to 2400 m. It is also the oldest coffee in the world. It is even doubtful whether the red coffee beans eaten by the sheep of the shepherd Gardi are mocha coffee. According to the place and time of the story, this possibility is very great.

More than 500 years ago, Yemen produced coffee in an ancient way. At the beginning of the 17th century, the first Yemeni coffee sold to Europe was exported through the ancient port of Mocha, which amazed Europeans. The delicious coffee shipped from the port of Mocha was called "mocha coffee", which is the origin of the name "mocha coffee".

Neighboring Ethiopia, across the Red Sea, also sells coffee through the port of Mocha, so Ethiopian sun-treated coffee is often referred to as mocha (such as Mocha Haral EthiopiaHarrar). Today, the old port of Mocha has long been abandoned because of sediment deposition (today's place name AlMakha) and is exported to the northwestern port of Hudaiida (Hodeida). However, people have long been accustomed to the name of Mocha, because the name of Mocha has reached the sky.

Deep-roasted Yemeni coffee often shows a chocolate-like bitter sweet flavor, affecting today's fancy coffee seasoned with chocolate sauce is also known as the word "mocha". So when you see the word "mocha coffee", it may refer to pure Yemeni coffee, or neighboring Ethiopian coffee, or simply fancy coffee flavored with chocolate sauce. In any case, for picky coffee lovers, only real Yemeni coffee is qualified to be called "mocha coffee".

It is worth mentioning that as there are many meanings of mocha, there are various spellings of mocha in English: Moka, Moca and Mocca are all common spellings. However, there are four spellings on the sacks and documents of Yemeni coffee: "Mokha", "Makha", "Morkha" and "Mukha". Although they are spelled differently, they all have the same meaning.

The Yemeni mocha is the originator of the world coffee trade and plays an important role in promoting delicious coffee all over the world. In the 17th century, the Yemeni mocha, known as "Arabia" (the origin of the later "Arabica species"), drifted across the ocean to European Catholic countries such as Italy, and for more than 150 years, Yemeni coffee has been the only coffee producer sold to Europe.

In ancient times, in conservative Catholic countries, extraordinarily good things were often considered evil, and coffee was once burdened with inexplicable evil. It was not until the Vatican Pope, who also loved coffee, announced that coffee was a Catholic drink and blessed coffee drinkers that coffee began to spread widely in Europe. Although Ethiopia was the first country in the world to discover coffee, it was Yemen that carried it forward. Today, there are still traces of coffee on the national emblem of Yemen. The national emblem of Yemen consists of an eagle and a national flag. The eagle symbolizes power, and the shield on its chest is painted with the famous monument Malibu Dam and coffee trees. The words "Republic of Yemen" are written on the ribbon in Arabic.

The price of Yemeni coffee in the international market has not been low, mainly because Yemeni coffee is very popular in countries and regions where "Turkish" coffee is popular. In Saudi Arabia, the Yemeni mocha is so spoiled that people there are willing to pay a high price for low-quality mocha coffee. This special fondness for mocha keeps the price of mocha coffee high in the world coffee market.

Today, mocha coffee has long been familiar to people, but how many people know that ships came to the bustling port before the 18th century and today's "mocha" will have such an origin.