St. Helena coffee

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St. Helena Coffee ( English St Helena Coffee ) is the coffee of the Green Tipped Bourbon Arabica variety , which is only grown on the Atlantic island of St. Helena . In 2013 it was considered the most expensive coffee before Jamaica Blue Mountain and Kona (Hawaii).

history

On February 10, 1733, the East India Company imported this type of coffee from the port city of Mocha in Yemen on St. Helena . It thrived on the volcanic soil and in the island's mild climate. This coffee became particularly well known in the 19th century through Napoleon Bonaparte , who was banished to the island. He praised him in high tones and allegedly wrote: "The only good thing about St. Helena is the coffee". In 1839 the London coffee trading agency W. Bumie & Co. described St. Helena coffee as "the world's best quality coffee". In 1851, St. Helena coffee received a premium award at the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace in London. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, coffee cultivation was discontinued, because flax became the island's main export good until 1966, when the main customer, the Royal Mail , switched to nylon thread and elastic.

In 1994 coffee production was resumed by David Henry, a St. Helenian who lived in London. After that, other producers on the island began to grow coffee. At the end of the 1990s, coffee was being grown on 18 acres (about 7.2 hectares ). In the 2000s, however, coffee production declined again. In 2008 David Henry left St. Helena and coffee was only produced on an area of ​​two acres (approx. 0.8 hectares). However, just two years later, coffee production came about through a joint venture between St. Helena Trading (UK) Ltd and Solomon & Co. (St. Helena) Plc. back in motion. It is now restricted to the area around Sandy Bay Estates in the Sandy Bay District . The annual yield is between one and one and a half tons. The world's most remote coffee plantation on St. Helena is a tourist attraction.

Economical meaning

St. Helena coffee is highlighted by the St. Helena government in the 2018-2028 development plan as one of the country's three export goods. The volume in 2017 was 30% of the island's total export volume of £ 95,000 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Bracharz: My Appetite Lexicon: A product knowledge for connoisseurs. Haymon Verlag, 2013. ISBN 3709974577 , ISBN 9783709974575 . (Online at Google Books)
  2. ↑ The Story of St Helena Coffee st-helena-coffeecom accessed on February 6, 2019
  3. ^ A b Janet Clarkson: Food History Almanac: Over 1,300 Years of World Culinary History, Culture, and Social Influence, Rowman & Littlefield, 2013, p. 145 [1]
  4. ↑ Kurt Leopold Traxl: Barista know-how: Everything you need to know for the perfect coffee, Riva Verlag, 2018, p. 327 [2]
  5. ↑ Sea Island Coffee seaislandcoffee.com , accessed February 6, 2019.
  6. ↑ David L. Smallman: Quincentenary: A Story of St Helena, 1502-2002, Hypatia Publications, 2003, p. 37 [3]
  7. ↑ a b St Helena Coffee sthelenaisland.info , accessed on February 9, 2019.
  8. ↑ Stephen A. Royle: Geography Of Islands, Routledge, 2002, p. 351 [4]
  9. ^ Sue Steiner, Robin Liston, Richard Grundy: St Helena: Ascension, Tristan Da Cunha, Bradt Travel Guides, 2007, p. 18 [5]
  10. ^ The Story of St Helena Coffee st-helena-coffee.com , accessed February 6, 2019.
  11. ^ A Very Exclusive Coffee Kick on St Helena Island , Agence France-Presse , NDTV.com, April 17, 2015
  12. ↑ Why you should visit St Helena, home to the 'world's most useless airport: The most remote coffee plantation in the world and the most remote distillery in the world. , The Independent , December 28, 2017
  13. ↑ St Helena's Sustainable Economic Development Plan 2018-2028. St Helena Government, p. 20. Accessed February 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ St Helena's Sustainable Economic Development Plan 2018-2028. St Helena Government, p. 47. Accessed February 9, 2019.