Development History of Blue Mountain Coffee in Jamaica

In 1728, coffee was first introduced into Jamaica. Due to the suitable soil, climate, light and other conditions in Jamaica, the quality of coffee was excellent. Andrews extends to other areas.

In 1737, Jamaican coffee production reached 83000 pounds per year.

Over the next 40 years, a large number of private landowners appeared, and until 1800, there were 686 coffee farms in Jamaica.

As a result of the serf trade, labor costs rose sharply, and the landowners were overwhelmed by the cost. By 1850, the number of coffee plantations had decreased to 186.

By 1900, the Jamaican government established the first coffee quality standard, but the standard was boycotted by many private landowners and was not implemented.

Since then, due to the lack of quality standards, the export quality of Blue Mountain coffee was uneven, which greatly affected its international reputation. in 1943, Canada, a big importer of Blue Mountain coffee, refused to import Blue Mountain coffee.

In 1944, the Jamaican government realized the necessity of regulating the blue mountain coffee industry and reformulated three regulatory suggestions for the blue mountain coffee industry: ① concentrated on the processing of blue mountain coffee beans, ② established the blue mountain coffee quality standard, and ③ established CIB, which was responsible for the organization and management of the market and the role of export supervisor.

In 1948, the world-famous Jamaican Coffee Bureau (CIB) was formally established, and the Jamaican government enacted the regulations on the Management of Jamaica's Blue Mountain Coffee Industry. The main responsibility of CIB is to improve the quality of Blue Mountain Coffee through management and supervision and regain its global reputation. At this time, the definition of Blue Mountain Coffee has been strictly stipulated in the law: ① has given four statutory coffee farms, including wallenford, to concentrate on processing Blue Mountain coffee beans to ensure the quality of Blue Mountain Coffee. ② grows in the Blue Mountain area of 3000-5000 feet. ③ Blue Mountain Coffee Export Grade: No.1,No.2,No.3, Round beans

Since 1960, the hurricane hit the blue mountain area of Jamaica, destroyed most of the manor facilities and coffee trees, foreign capital, including Japan, provided help, but also obtained the shares and preferential import rights of most of the estates. at this time, in order to maintain the reputation of the national treasure Blue Mountain coffee, the Jamaican government still retained the wallenford manor as the state, and made part of the regulatory function of CIB Wallenford, Wallenford manor as a synonym for CIB. Charged with the mission of managing and innovating the coffee industry, the manor manager is also appointed by the government.

Quality Control of Blue Mountain Coffee

① Jamaica Coffee officially registered Logo for certification inspection of exported Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee

② Jamaica Coffee Bureau (CIB) officially registered BLUE MOUNTAIN COFFEE ®trademark, marking authentic Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee outer packaging

The early registered trademark of ③ WALLENFORD COFFEE COMPANY marks the outer packaging of WALLENFORD Blue Mountain Coffee.

With the globalization of the reputation of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and the global introduction of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee cultivation, there are many fake Blue Mountain flavor coffee on the market, which has seriously affected the excellent reputation of authentic Blue Mountain Coffee. In recent years, the Jamaican government has strongly advocated the export of Blue Mountain coffee in its roasting and original packaging, rather than in the form of raw beans, in order to avoid the impact of counterfeit Blue Mountain flavor coffee. The importance of this measure is that the Jamaican Coffee Bureau can monitor every link of the Blue Mountain Coffee export to ensure the purity and high quality of Blue Mountain Coffee.

Wallenford quality standard

In the Blue Mountain region, the legal production area for Blue Mountain Coffee is 3000-5000 feet, and Wallenford only selects Blue Mountain Coffee fruits grown above 4000 feet above sea level for processing. Not only that, Jamaica's four statutory Blue Mountain coffee processing plants Wallenford and Mavis Bank,Silver Hill,Moy Hall account for 90% of Blue Mountain coffee exports, and the Blue Mountain coffee produced by Wallenford,Moy Hall is known as "Superior Quality" (absolute quality).

The extremely stringent quality control of Wallenford Manor is also reflected in the product shelf life, which is usually 12 months for a single roasted coffee, while the most stringent 8-month shelf life set by Wallenford obviously gives up its economic benefits, while wallenford has won the high popularity of coffee glutton all over the world, in their evaluation of all the Blue Mountain estates in Jamaica. Wallenford performs best in quality management, stability, popularity and flavor.

Limited Blue Mountain Coffee Export quota

According to Jamaica's CIB export statistics as of 2004, 85 per cent of the limited Blue Mountain 1 quota was allocated to Japan, 5 per cent of the United States, 5 per cent of Europe and 5 per cent of other countries. However, in the global consumption distribution of authentic Blue Mountain No. 1, according to the International Coffee Association (ICO), China accounts for 15% of the consumption of Blue Mountain coffee, which stunns the world. The reason is that some shares of Blue Mountain coffee in Japan, Australia and Europe are exported to China through direct branches.

The above differences in export quotas and consumption distribution are extremely embarrassing for the Jamaican government. The asymmetrical Blue Mountain coffee export quota keeps most of the profits in trading enterprises in countries such as Japan, and the Jamaican coffee industry has not benefited from it. The key to the shift was in 2005, when the Jamaican Minister of Agriculture made it clear that Blue Mountain Coffee should be more roasted in Jamaica, directly through quota allocation, preferring to circulate directly from Jamaica to consumer countries.

The means on which the Jamaican government relies on changing export quotas come from Wallenford estates, which are directly controlled by the government, and the wallenford Blue Mountain 1 quota means that the Jamaican Coffee Agency (CIB) endorses the quota target for the country or the company.