Who doesn’t like a piping hot cup of coffee? Coffee for a normal person is a cup of beverage made by mixing coffee bean powder with milk or water. But for the bon vivant the beans must come from specific regions and cherished for their distinctive characteristics. Cultivated in small areas, these are pampered by farmers caring more for quality than quantity. Here is a list of the costliest coffees in the world.
1. Kopi Luwak
Kopi Luwak is grown in Indonesia costing $160/lb. It is made from coffee beans excreted by common palm civets. The civets use their intense sense of smell in selecting the choicest and ripest beans. After having passed through the animal during the digestion process and defecated, beans are hand-collected. These beans yield an aromatic coffee with much less bitterness.
2. Hacienda La Esmeralda
Costing $104/lb is grown in the shades of guava trees. It is cultivated on Hacienda La Esmeralda, situated on the slopes of Mount Baru, of Western Panama near Boquete. The uniqueness of the coffee is impressively aromatic with prominent jasmine fragrance. Also mind-blowing blueberry and orange like citrus flavors are available.
3. Island of St. Helena Coffee Company
Costing $79/lb is a very exclusive coffee grown on the island of St. Helena. Its uniqueness includes bright acidity with citrus-berry but not sour, medium light and distinctive spicy-peppery taste.
4. El Injerto
Grown in Huehuetenango, Guatemala costing $50/lbs is a hard bean having full body with crisp acidity, deep affluent aroma with a taste of spice, often giving way to the chocolate, complex fruit and caramel flavors.
5. Fazenda Santa Ines
Grown in Minas Gerais, Brazil, costing $50/lbs is sweet in taste with bright color. Outstanding in flavor, the coffee holds the essence of clove and lemon. The luscious and delicate taste with a chocolaty body and creamy feel having a sweet finish tempts everyone to have a delight.
That’s not the end. Others in the list are Jamaica Blue Mountain for $49/lb, Los Planes for $40/lb and Kona for $34/lb.