Do you have any idea how many varieties of coffee exist in the world? Do you care? Well, as I enjoyed my first cup of guess what, Kona Coffee this morning, I found this article from the Maui News, fun and informative.
Of course, I knew that Hawaii is most likely the only state in the union, to produce coffee commercially, and we all know, that you can’t call it Kona Coffee unless it’s grown in a specific region. I have tasted coffee from other regions of the Big Island, Kau, Paauilo, but I never guessed there are actually 80 varieties of coffee beans around the world. http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/539755/The-cup-runneth-over-with-coffee-culture-trivia.html?nav=12
Now, I didn’t know how coffee arrived in Hawaii, and when I read that Don Francisco de Paula y Marin, (the Great Manini”), planted the first seedlings on Oahu in 1813, it added a whole new dimension to the Hawaii coffee connection. I can’t imagine why no one has named a coffee brand after this amazing man. I can very clearly imagine the label …….Don Francisco de Paula y Marin, 1813. Wow! an instant success.
So now we have a name, a label, a theme song, as I learned this morning, Bach, very kindly composed in 1734, “Coffee Cantata”. Imagine lyrics that included “coffee is more delicious than a thousand kisses and sweeter than muscatel wine” …hmmm….
Okay, you didn’t think I would leave you with just the concept, did you? To quote, the Maui News article, “500 billion cups of coffee are sipped every year”. So, if you could live on the Big Island, have a coffee plantation, give it a great label, a theme song and be fairly confident that if Bach loved it in 1734, that coffee is not leaving us any time soon, what would you do next? 
Well, I put my cup down, called all my Kona Coffee experts and discovered this amazing opportunity! Now,imagine sitting on this lanai, watching your 2000 already mature coffee trees flourish……of course, while enjoying your own brew………
Dodie MacArthur
MacArthur and Company/Sotheby’s International Realty
http://www.bigislandreale.com/Kaupulehu_Real_Estate/Spectacular3acre!_230763.aspx
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