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:
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 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.
Hawaiian 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/lbFlavor 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
Jamaican 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
Flavor 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.
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.
Hacienda 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
Flavor 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.
Black 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?
Blue Mountains Coffee is really very nice but sadly very expensive even here in Jamaica. I like this post, thanks for sharing!
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I’d like to try it some day, just for the experience of it at least. 🙂
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I believe you! ☺We sent some to my mom to Europe and she tasted it with my bro who is an agricultural engineer and he said it’s very good and high quality.
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I’d like to try Los Planes Coffee. Sounds so amazing and good!
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Me too!
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I need to win the lottery first to afford it…
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Indeed!
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I am a real coffee lover but I do avoid nowadays and switched to green tea. You made me miss it more.
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Sorry! Green tea is pretty awesome too!
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I want to try each of them -but most especially the one where the cat is involved -I like that, weirdly.
I have to repost this -so I don’t lose it!
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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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That’s awesome, makes life more interesting and colorful. 🙂
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Reblogged this on my heartstrings… fiddledeedee.
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Interesting and I would like to try them, but I am not sure if I would want to buy a full bag of the beans.
Mostly I just buy Sprout’s Blend from a local Sprout’s Grocery.
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Love the Blue Mountain! Expensive but worth it!
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I want to try it out, gotta go for it one of these days.
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My all-time favorite once was the Blue Mountain. That was years ago – it’s now way out of my price range, but still good.
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I’d love to try it.
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Badfish Out of Water talks a lot about coffee beans. Some of the things he’s written about are enough to put me off coffee forever! lol.
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That’s what happened to me with milk!
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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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I agree with your assessment. Those are the 2 that I’ve tried as well.
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I feel ya on this. I would definitely like to get some one of these days, just for the experience of it. I don’t think I would make a regular habit of it though, even if it’s out of this world.
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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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I agree. It’s kind of like wine, an expensive wine does not necessarily always taste better than an affordable/less expensive one. There are a lot of really great wines under $30.
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Absolutely. I worked in a music store and saw guys come in and make a $150 guitar sound like silk when other people spend $2000+ on one and it sounds awful. It’s all in how you perceive and play and taste but it’s true. High price doesn’t always mean high quality!
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Exactly! 🙂
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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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I still haven’t gotten past the phrase “rich in caffeine” LOL…
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Blue mountain
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This was so cool. Thank you. Love coffee
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It’s a gem of a drink!
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Great post! I feel like I would be ruined on all other coffee if I tried one of these – my current addiction is expensive enough ;).
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I know what you mean 🙂 mine is too.
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Over $80 for a cup of coffee…wow…it would want to be fabulous.
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Indeed it would.
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Time to start saving hard for a cup.
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Who do we have to sleep with to get our hands & lips on these? Not suggesting anything, however………
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Pass on the elephant poop. I’d put in an order for the Rift Valley…I’ve always loved coffee from there. Or Blue Mountain 🙂
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Exactly, there are plenty of amazing coffees that have not been pooped by an elephant. Power to all those who want and do try it though!
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Haha! Exactly! Not sure if you’re a Seinfeld fan or not, but on his show Comedians Riding in Cars Getting Coffee he took Jay Leno, who doesn’t drink coffee, to a coffeehouse to get the Jacu bird poop coffee. Needless to say, Leno didn’t care for it lol.
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That’s awesome. 🙂
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I so enjoy morning coffee. I enjoyed reading this post. Thanks. Womenlivinglifeafter50.com
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I do as well, the smell as much as the taste helps get my day going. 🙂
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I love Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.. it has a rich smell which envelopes your senses even after consuming..it is rich and smooth, with a bitter twist…in my opinion. I love this coffee!
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Sounds lovely! 🙂
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A co-worker of my husband raves about the civet poop, but I’ll pass on all pre-digested food.
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Agreed 🙂
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A little rich for my blood, but if you’re buying, I’ll give it a whirl 😉
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🙂 The only one I actually considering buying is the Black Blood of the Earth. The others I would probably only try if someone had it or offered it. Mainly because Black Blood of the Earth is a completely different way of extracting the coffee, and I’d really like to know how it tastes. 🙂
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I’m a bit curious about that as well. Let me know if you take the plunge, because I might have to as well!
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I definitely will! 🙂
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Of course I would want to try the most expensive one 🙂
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Luckily it’s not just expensive but extremely hard to come by, it makes splurging on it more difficult 😉
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Wow I don’t know. Might have to go with the Hawaiian coffee…Have you tried any?
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I have not I really want to try the Black Gold of The Earth. The others sound good but I’m not sure I’d spend the money when there are other really good coffees for less, but maybe.
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I have had several over the years, some as gifts some as part of meals. I have a difficult time paying so much for coffee though when there are so many good beans available for so much less.
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I agree 🙂
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Love Hawaiian & Jamaican Blue Mountain.
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