The Coffee Industry Regulation Act
The Coffee Industry Regulation Act specifies what coffee may use the Blue Mountain label. Additionally, it restricts the use of the Blue Mountain trademark to those authorized by the Coffee Industry Board. Broadly speaking, coffee harvested from the parishes of Saint Andrew, Saint Thomas, Portland and Saint Mary may be considered Blue Mountain coffee. The specific boundaries are defined as follows:
- Starting at Skibo and proceeding in an east-south-easterly direction to Swift River;
- thence east-south-easterly to Chelsea;
- thence east-south-easterly to Durham (Samba Hill);
- thence south-easterly to Belleview;
- thence south-easterly along the western slope of the John Crow Mountain to Cedar Grove;
- thence westerly to Font Hill;
- thence north-westerly to Ramble;
- thence westerly to Good Hope;
- thence north-westerly to Dallas;
- thence north-westerly to Industry Village;
- thence north-westerly to Maryland;
- thence north-westerly to Golden Spring;
- thence northerly to Brandon Hill;
- thence north-easterly to Tranquility;
- thence east-north-easterly to Skibo.
Traditionally, only coffee grown at elevations between 3,000 and 5,500 feet (1,700 m) could be called Jamaica Blue Mountain. Coffee grown at elevations between 1,500 and 3,000 feet (910 m) is called Jamaica High Mountain, and coffee grown below 1,500-foot (460 m) elevation is called Jamaica Supreme or Jamaica Low Mountain. (All land in Jamaica above 5,500 feet (1,700 m) is a forest preserve, so no coffee is grown there.)
Read more about this topic: Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
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