Top 10 Most Expensive Coffees

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download (3)These coffee’s are rare and unique and come from all over the world. There is an interesting variety of flavors to keep any coffee connoisseur interested. However not all of these are readily available, some are bought by auction, some are sold in small batches to select people, and some are only sold in far off places.

Starting with the least expensive here are
the top 10 most expensive coffees:

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Black Blood of the Earth $40/750ml
or $95 for Blue Mountain!
Philip Broughton, the man who invented this coffee, says most of the coffee beans come from the rift valleys of Ethiopia and Africa where the beans are loaded with oil.
Flavor Notes: The acid is lost during intense processing, so what you get in your cup is a strong flavored brew that is rich in caffeine, but lacks acid.
Fun Fact: Black Blood of Earth is prepared using cold vacuum extraction. During the processing stage, most of the bean oil is extracted, and this makes the coffee abundantly rich in caffeine. The caffeine content is about 20 to 40 times more than that of regular coffee.

Los-Planes-CoffeeLos Planes Coffee (Citala, El Salvador) $40/lb
Flavor Notes: A delicate balance of sweet chocolate citrus and a fruity acidity, with a mild body and a clean and transparent cup
Fun Fact: This remarkable coffee, has helped catapult this “no name” region of El Salvador into a star in the coffee-growing world.

 

roasted2Hawaiian Kona Coffee  $45-$65/lb
Flavor Notes:  Smooth, delicate, and full-bodied, and with a bright, clear flavor and rich aroma. It is also described as robust, and usually with medium acidity.
Fun Fact: The sunny mornings, cloud or rain in the afternoon, little wind, and mild nights combined with porous, mineral-rich volcanic soil create favorable coffee growing conditions.

Fazenda Santa Ines (Minas Gerais, Brazil) aprx. $50/lb5297-583x243Flavor Notes: Toasted hazelnuts, berry, and cocoa with low acidity and medium body
Fun Fact: This family operated business uses traditional methods in all stages of coffee production

tumblr_lqyk81lfmS1r2yvaro4_500Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee  $50/lb
Flavor Notes: The coffee has blue green color, good acidity, intense aroma, fairly good body, clean.
Fun Fact: A balance of floral aroma, acidity and full body.

 

Guatemala Finca El Injerto Pacamara (Huehuetenango) $60/lb
sobre-subasta1Flavor Notes: Tangerine, Cranberry & Dark Chocolate
Fun Fact: In an online auction held in 2012, Finca El Injerto coffee beans were sold for a record-breaking price of $500.50 per pound. Since then, the coffee has gained a celebrity status worldwide. It is one of the rarest coffees from Yemen.

download (2)St. Helena Island Coffee Company  $89/lb
Flavor Notes: Delicate Acidity, Great Balance, and Full Bodied.
Fun Fact: In 1815, the British government selected Saint Helena as the place of detention of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was taken to the island in October 1815. Napoleon stayed at the Briars pavilion on the grounds of the Balcombe family’s home until his permanent residence,Longwood House, was completed in December 1815. Napoleon died there on 5 May 1821.
 

c2Hacienda la Esmeralda Coffee aprx. $350/lb
Bought by auction only 2014 auction price was $350 a pound.
Flavor Notes:  Extremely complex aromatics and flavors, including jasmine and stone fruit . Brilliant and clear acidity. Bergamot notes in the cup. Try it for $35/ cup.
Fun Fact: Geisha Esmeralda is grown on the fertile farmlands of Hacienda Esmeralda, which is nestled on Mount Baru in the Jamarillo region in western Panama.

Kopi Luwak Coffee (Indonesia) $100 to $600
Just saw on amazon for aprx. $374/lb
Trung Nguyen Legendee Gold Coffee Enxym simulated (no animals used) aprx. $50/lb
Kopi-Luwak-CoffeeFlavor Notes: Diminished acidity and flavor and added smoothness to the body
Fun Fact: It is produced from the coffee cherries having been digested by a certain Indonesian cat-like animal called then palm civet or also civet cat. This is the reason kopi luwak is also called civet coffee. The feces of the cat are collected, finished, and sold as kopi luwak. In the coffee industry, kopi luwak is widely regarded as a gimmick or novelty item.

the-black-ivory-coffee-L-DGIl_wBlack Ivory Coffee (Thailand)
$66 +shipping for 35 grams! Transfer that into a pound and it’s $855/lb
Flavor Notes: Dark chocolate, a hint of grass, spice (particularly tobacco, leather and cinnamon depending on the water you use) and it will be very soft, almost tea-like without the burnt or bitter taste of espresso.
Fun Facts:  Only 150 kg are produced a year. The limitations are due to the availability of high quality coffee cherries, the appetite of the elephants, the number of beans destroyed through chewing, and the ability of the mahouts and their wives to pick the beans by hand (8800 beans equal one kg of Black Ivory Coffee).

Have you tried any of these coffees? Which ones do you want to try?

71 thoughts on “Top 10 Most Expensive Coffees”

    • I wish I was braver at trying weird/interesting things, but alas I am not 😦 I just don’t think I could get past knowing it was digested and pooped out… I kind of wish I could get passed it, just to try the last two and have the experience. I’m a wimp.

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      • My dad always the one thing he could count on with me -is I will try anything (food). It isn’t entirely true -but I will eat most anything. I refuse to eat anything that is nearly as smart as me -except for pork (as I was raised on it -oh, I feel badly about that)

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  12. I’ve had both Kona and Jamaican Blue Mountain but in both cases they were given to me as gifts. They were both good, but not good enought for the price considering that there are many other good coffees you can buy for much less. I have a hard time shelling out more than $20 for a pound of coffee.

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  13. At those prices I guess they give you the option of which major organ you will also be paying with besides money eh? Funny thing is I have had a couple of the brands you have mentioned and honestly… they’re not THAT great to me at least! Sure they’re good but not worth the price of admission, mostly because it all depends on one’s coffee palette obviously. To each their own of course but when you see coffee that expensive you have to remember what you like and if it’s within your taste range otherwise you will waste a lot of money on something. Caveat Emptor! lol

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  14. This was so interesting to read. I have had the civet coffee, but I don’t think I would pay that much for it! My favorite coffee though is Kona. Unfortunately, it has been a long time since I have had pure Kona coffee.

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