All coffee history is surrounded by incredible histories and legends, let’s talk a little about how the British and the Dutch formally introduced it in Europe when the maritime routes to the “Indies”, in 1640, broke the monopoly that Arab countries had on the coffee and started to bring coffee from Indonesia, specifically from the island of Java.

Was in 1723, when a French Army official named Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu took some of the coffee plants, given to Louis XIV in 1714, to the French Martinique in the Caribbean, in a few years the coffee was being harvested in other Islands as well as in mainland, being Cuba one of the most important areas. It is estimated that between 1785 and 1790 that the first coffee plants arrived to Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico, in the years, other manuscripts talk about a coffee shop established in the heart of Mexico City.

Mexico, is considered the 5th coffee producer in the world, 12 states of this beautiful country produce high quality coffee for the world; Chiapas, Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Nayarit, Colima, Jalisco, Queretaro y Tabasco and in that order of importance. Coffee… as we know it, has been worshiped, banned, satanized, criticized, symbolized, has served as inspiration for artist of all kind of arts, has been present before, during and after war times and also has served as peace offer, has been loved and hated…and all of this because of the caffeine.