St Helena Island coffee is renowned for Napoleon's praise, and the coffee beans produced on this isolated Atlantic island are considered the only island treasure in Napoleon's heart. The cultivation history of St Helena Island coffee can be traced back to 1732, when it was introduced from Yemen and flourished on this isolated land. In the 1980s, David Henry launched a coffee improvement movement, insisting on purely natural cultivation, without machinery, and even recycling miscellaneous trees. This article will delve into the quality and flavor characteristics of St Helena Island Napoleon coffee beans, and analyze the various reasons for their high price, taking you to understand the story behind this rare coffee.

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St Helena Island

Napoleon once said that the only good thing from this small island is coffee.

St Helena is located in the Atlantic Ocean, about 2,000 kilometers from Africa and about 3,500 kilometers from Brazil, with a population of about 5,000. The island is famous worldwide because Napoleon was exiled here after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and died on the island in 1821.

In 1732, coffee was first planted on St Helena Island, with seeds transported from Yemen by a ship named Houghton. Although most other introduced plants did not survive from the 1860s onward, coffee took root in this land and thrived.

The island also experienced a coffee improvement movement. In the mid-1980s, David Henry began to devote himself to promoting the development of the island's coffee industry, with the goal of producing the highest quality coffee. The coffee trees on St Helena Island rely entirely on natural conditions for cultivation, with no machinery, no tractors, and even the miscellaneous trees cut down to make room for young coffee trees were recycled.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.