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Why don’t you sell Jamaican Blue Mountain or Hawaiian Kona? |
Come late autumn we will resume the search for an outstanding Hawaiian Kona. Konas are typically prettier to look at than most coffees but, nevertheless, as is the case with all the other coffee origins, very few Konas have much substance, particularly since they are low-grown.
Jamaican Blue Mountain was fetching the highest coffee prices already in the 1880’s. Many great producing countries, such as Kenya, were not even growing coffee back then. A lot has happened to infrastructure and maintenance of quality standards since those days. I once did cup an extraordinary Jamaican Blue Mountain. Once…! This was quite a few years ago. It was floral, sweet, full bodied and unique. So we will search diligently for what we know Jamaica can be, but hardly ever is. The fact is that almost all Jamaican coffee is purchased by Japan, which pays very high prices often, frankly, without much discrimination. Those who buy Blue Mountain in the US rarely do so on the basis of samples but simply to sell a legend, taste untested! In this case you don’t get what you paid for!
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