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„I've seen this firsthand in Jamaica, where 100 percent Blue Mountain Coffee, grown only on one side and at certain altitudes of the fabled Blue Mountains, fetches $35 and more a pound, with most of it sold prior to harvest to Japanese and European dealers. Yet many of the farms seem to be out of another century: donkeys traverse tiny dirt paths through lush jungle; teenage boys in bare feet use handmade wooden rakes to spread the green beans on concrete slabs to dry; little girls and women package the roasted beans in burlap bags, working on treadle sewing machines; older women sit for eight hours a day pasting labels on tins with a toothbrush and bowl of white glue. Yes, these jobs feed their families and afford security--many of the families have worked on the same coffee plantations for generations.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„However, this Blue Mountain exhibited almost every characteristic of the great BlueMountains of years past: tremendous, ringingly deep dimension, perfect balance of sweetnessand acidity, and absolutely cleanly expressed fruit, a kind of essence of coffee fruit. I admit that Idid register a couple of missing elements: The body was excellent, but not quite as big andbouillon-like as the Platonic Blue Mountains of memory, plus a slight, slight astringency mayhave imbalanced the finish. But these are quibbles, occasioned more by my lust for BlueMountain perfection than by any failing of pleasure generated by that particular cup at thatparticular moment in time.“

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The Coffee Review - the world's leading coffee buying guide (#)

„In the mid-1970s, when I first tasted Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee from a mill that exported a famous mark called Wallensford Estate, it was indeed a splendid coffee: without drama, perhaps, but extraordinarily rich, balanced, resonant and complete. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, the Coffee Industry Board began investing in Jamaica Blue Mountain with money provided by Japanese interests. New mills were constructed that use a short-cut version of the wet-processing method called aquapulping or mechanical demucilaging, and volume increased dramatically while quality decreased despite the Coffee Industry Board's efforts to maintain it.“

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Café Forum | Jamaican Coffee Companies (#)

„James Amber Estate GRADE 1 Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Beans $38.00/lb; Wallenford Estate 4lbs for US$95 inclusive of shipping to the USA. Mavis Bank and many more Jamaican delights - Island Mailboxes #3063, Half Moon PO, St. James, Jamaica - Tel: 876-973-4910 - Fax: 413-691-7177 - Email: lucidcafe@caribbeantreasures.com - Url: www.caribbeantreasures.com Michael Joseph - Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee - Mavis Bank Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee from Mavis Bank.“

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Coffee Storage (INeedCoffee.com) (#)

„by Ryan Jacobs  | Print Friendly Version  | Email This Article Imagine the following scenario: You have just come home from your favorite coffee shop with two pounds of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee, freshly roasted. Normally, you wouldn't buy so much at one time, but it was a steal at $20 a pound! Realizing that you won't be able to drink this within a week, you decide that you need to find a better place to store your highly prized (and priced) coffee to best preserve its flavor.“

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Amazon.com: Books: The Devil's Cup: Coffee, the Driving Force in History (#)

„For instance Steward Allen Lee writes that Japanese companies purchase the entire crop of Blue Mountain Coffee and another high quality specialized ground called Monkey Coffee collected from the droppings of a palm toddy cat that lives mostly an alcoholic bean but also particularly ripe and succulent coffee and its acidic bowls produce a very high grade ground. While THE DEVIL'S CUP is neither a travelogue or coffee history, it has changed the way I drink a cup coffee.“

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Coffee around the World... - coffeecrew.com - victoria, b.c. canada (#)

„Since the early seventies only coffee processed by Mavis Bank Central Factory and three other processors can legally be termed Blue Mountain Coffee. One must be careful when finding their Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee! I received a bag of Mavis Bank 100% Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee and all I can say is that I was stunned by the sheer purity and clarity of the flavor.“

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Virtual Coffee - The Hottest Online Coffee Zine! (#)

„Hawaii Kona and Jamaica Blue Mountain may be better known than Kenya among casual coffee drinkers, but among those who genuinely know coffee and buy for quality as well as name, Kenya is much more respected. Hence the relatively high prices commanded by the three Kenyas in the review, higher, in fact, than either of the reviewed fair-trade coffees. False Alternatives?“

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Tiny Joy July 2000 Home Coffee Roasting Newsletter (#)

„Well, how about this: an experimental program between a Kona coffee farmer with one of the highest altitude, prime coffee gardens in Kona and the University of Hawaii coffee project growing 100% pure Jamaica Blue Mountain seedstock (which as you may know IS its own var. of arabica typica). The coffee is perfectly prepped, not the JBM Wallenford with pale old coffee and berry-boring bug damage.“

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The Coffees of Jamaica (#)

„There are only 4 trade names that can legally call their product Blue Mountain coffee: Wallenford, Mavis Bank, Old Tavern and one other I can never remember. True Blue Mountain is actually grown at higher altitudes than most other island coffees, and much of Mavis Bank's farms are at 5000 feet. Nonetheless, it has the soft cup profile.“

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Timeforcoffee.com (#)

„The Blue Mountain coffees shipped today retain the body and richness, but lack the acidity; they are smooth, well-bodied, moderately rich coffees deserving to be drunk, but not to be carried on about.“

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Coffee Cultivars (#)

„Blue mountain - A famous cultivar favored for its resistance to the coffee berry disease and ability to thrive in high altitudes.  Grown in Jamaica and now in Kona, Hawaii. This cultivar, however, cannot adapt to all climates and maintain its high quality flavor profile.“

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Tea & Coffee 05/00 - A Roaster's Own Story (#)

„This elegant little cart presents Paradore dinners with a choice of a half dozen choice brandies and cigars and four highly select coffee origins: Jamaica Blue Mountain'Wallenford,' Papua New Guinea'AA Sigri,' Guatemala'Volcan d'Oro,' and a decaffeinated blend of 100% Arabica under the name of Gran Altura.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„According to the Grahams of Palace amusement fame, the hand-picked beans, grown and packaged exclusively by Greenwich Mountain Estate Limited, are unlike any other Blue Mountain crop of coffee as its size, # 19 on the classifier (used to sort the beans' size) is unique.“

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Tea & Coffee 04/01 - St. Helena: The Forgotten Coffee (#)

„Helena bean, there is nothing to surpass it - even Jamaica Blue Mountain, which for 70-odd years has dominated the gourmet coffee scene. A 17 gram-shot of St. Helena Green Tipped Bourbon Arabica at Harrods last year would have set you back £4.74.“

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It's All About Coffee (#)

„Coffee producer, Jablum Jamaica yesterday launched an instant coffee product and a cold coffee beverage in a major diversification of its world premium roasted and ground Blue Mountain coffee.“

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Global Exchange : U.S. AID, roaster agree to help coffee growers (#)

„Leahy and the officials who signed the memorandum -- AID administrator Andrew Natsios and chairman Robert Stiller of Green Mountain, a speciality roaster -- saluted the pact by sipping fair-trade coffee from blue "U.S. Senate" mugs.“

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About Coffee (#)

„ Connoisseurs pay dearly for Mocha from the Yemen region of Arabia, Blue Mountain from Jamaica, Kona from Hawaii, or other so-called speciality coffees from Africa, Indonesia, or Latin American-all premium Arabica varieties.“

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Tea & Coffee 09/04 - Dominican Republic Gets Serious About Quality Coffee Exports (#)

„Rodríguez claims that the chairman of a large specialty coffee association has said that “Dominican coffee is much better than Jamaica’s Blue Mountain” - which retails for upwards of $90 a pound in Tokyo.“

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Coffee by Country | Page 1 (#)

„The Blue Mountain coffees shipped today retain the body and richness, but lack the acidity; they are smooth, well-bodied, moderately rich coffees deserving to be drunk, but not to be carried on about.“

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BBC - Video Nation - COFFEE by Maxine Walker (#)

„All over the world people ask for Blue Mountain coffee, and though she doesn't really drink it herself, she's very proud to say she works there.“

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Roasting (#)

„ Some coffees with a delicate flavour like Jamaica Blue Mountain are at their best when medium roasted.“

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Coffee: Resources for home espresso (#)

„They are then sold as KopiLuwak, which beats out Blue Mountain as the most expensive coffee in the world.“

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