Where are Blue Mountain Coffee Beans Grown and How Much Does a Cup of Authentic Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Cost

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FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Blue Mountain Coffee

Jamaica has three coffee varieties: Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, Jamaica High Mountain Supreme Coffee Beans, and Jamaica Prime Coffee Beans.

The beautiful Blue Mountains of Jamaica

According to the standards of the Jamaica Coffee Industry Board (CIB), only coffee beans grown from the slopes to the peaks above 2,200 feet in the Blue Mountains can be called Jamaica Blue Mountain. These beans are then screened based on size and classified into three grades: NO.1, NO.2, NO.3, plus PB (Peaberry).

Coffee grown below 2,200 feet in the Blue Mountain region is called High Mountain Coffee; coffee planted outside the Blue Mountains is called Jamaica Coffee. Blue Mountain Coffee is mainly distributed in five mountainous areas of the Blue Mountains: John Crow, St. John's Peak, Mossman's Peak, High Peak, and Blue Mountain Peak.

Taste and Cost-Effectiveness of Jamaica Blue Mountain

Currently, with the continuous popularization of specialty coffee, more and more coffee enthusiasts are questioning the taste and corresponding price of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee.

Pure Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee originates from the parent coffee tree in the Paris Botanical Garden in France. After hundreds of years of cultivation, it has remained unchanged. It can be said that Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is expensive because of its pure lineage and heritage, allowing people to taste the flavor and traces of history within it.

Jamaica is the only country that still uses wooden barrels to package coffee beans. The second reason for the high price of Jamaican coffee is the Japanese people's special fondness for Blue Mountain Coffee. Not only have they made this coffee popular, but they have also selflessly helped the local Jamaica Blue Mountain area improve coffee cultivation levels and overcome difficulties time and time again. For a long time, Jamaica Blue Mountain was monopolized by Japan, and prices naturally rose.

Because Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee is expensive, in early years, most Blue Mountain Coffee in China was fake. Nowadays, even in China, drinking a cup of genuine Blue Mountain Coffee can cost over a hundred yuan, depending on the situation.

Key point: For high-altitude Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, High Mountain Coffee, and Jamaica Coffee, different grades also determine different prices.

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