Puerto Rico Coffee Heritage
Heritage and protected-origin designations for Puerto Rican coffee, including historic haciendas and the Café de Puerto Rico designation.
Hacienda Buena Vista: The Living Coffee Museum of Ponce
Hacienda Buena Vista is Puerto Rico's most complete surviving window into the 19th-century coffee...
Café de Puerto Rico: Denominación de Origen and Protected Heritage
Café de Puerto Rico is not just a label — it is a protected designation that guarantees where the...
Hacienda Caracolillo: The Jewel of Maricao Coffee
Hacienda Caracolillo is one of the most important specialty coffee farms in the Caribbean. Nestle...
Coffee of Kings and Popes: Puerto Rico's Vatican Connection
Puerto Rican coffee was sold to the Vatican. That much is documented, and it is genuinely unusua...
Yauco Selecto: The Premium Puerto Rico Coffee Brand
Yauco Selecto is a coffee brand, not a historical designation. It is a commercial name applied to...
Puerto Rico Coffee Exports: The 1890s Peak to Modern Decline
Puerto Rico's coffee industry reached its export peak in the final decade of Spanish rule and nev...
Corsican Immigration and the Founding of Yauco Coffee
Corsican immigrants arriving in Puerto Rico beginning in 1815 under the Spanish Cédula de Gracia...
Hacienda Lealtad: The Revolution Coffee Hacienda of Lares
Hacienda Lealtad was founded in 1830 by French immigrant Juan Bautista Plumey in Lares — one of P...
Coffee and the Grito de Lares: Puerto Rico's 1868 Independence Revolt
The Grito de Lares — the "Cry of Lares" — was Puerto Rico's first armed uprising against Spanish ...
The Old Yauco Coffee Estates: Hacienda Caracolillo, the Mariani Mill, and the 19th-Century Origins of Alto Grande
Yauco is remembered as Puerto Rico's coffee town, but it was never the island's largest coffee p...
Café Yaucono: The Brand in Every Puerto Rican Kitchen
For most Puerto Ricans of the 20th century, "café" did not mean specialty single-origin coffee f...