Puerto Rico Manor Coffee Grind Taste Characteristics Variety Price Introduction

Puerto Rico gourmet coffee has been exported to the United States, France and Japan. Coffee in this country is generally carefully cultivated, pure taste, aroma, heavy particles, which are among the best brands in the world. The best coffee is Yauco Selecto, which means "select." Grand Lares Yauco is grown in the south-west of the island and Lares coffee in the south-central part.

Grown only on three farms in the south-west of the island, Yocote Coffee has a strong aroma and a long aftertaste. This coffee sells at a high price and its aroma rivals that of any other coffee variety in the world. In the Yauco region, the coffee is owned and operated by local planters. The mountain climate here is mild, the plants have a long maturity period (from October to February of the following year), and the soil is of high quality clay. Some older varieties of Arabica coffee are grown here, although their yields are lower than those of other varieties, but they are generally of high quality. The people here have been adopting an ecological, intensive farming method, using only low toxicity fertilizers and chemicals, and adopting mixed crop cultivation measures to make the soil more fertile. When it was time to pick the beans, people walked back and forth between the trees, picking only the fully ripe beans, and then washing them in a roller for 48 hours.

Yocote Select beans are kept in their shells until they are shipped, and the skins are not removed until the order is shipped to ensure optimum freshness. U.S. government officials, such as the FDA and USEA, are also present at the time of shipment submission and work to monitor compliance with federal regulations. There are also staff from local evaluation committees who take samples of one bag out of every 50 bags and qualify them using international gauges.

Jaime Fortuńo, president of the agency Escogido Yauco, silently attends to all this work every year, even the smallest details. Fortuno is an investment banker who graduated from Harvard Business School. He was determined to seize every opportunity to carve out a market for premium coffee in Puerto Rico. He expects a maximum annual production of 3000 bags of 45 kilograms each, less than 1% of the island's total coffee production.

Yocote Choice is a mesmerizing coffee that is full of flavor, bitter, nutritious, fruity and worth tasting. Even Taylors in Harrogate, England, imported 50 bags of Yocote Choice coffee