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 coffe...
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 th...
Hacienda Caracolillo: The Jewel of Maricao Coffee
Hacienda Caracolillo is one of the most important specialty coffee farms in the Caribbean. Nestl...
Coffee of Kings and Popes: Puerto Rico's Vatican Connection
Few coffee origins can claim a heritage as distinguished as Puerto Rico's, and the phrase "coffe...
Yauco Selecto: The Premium Puerto Rico Coffee Brand
Yauco Selecto is Puerto Rico's premium estate coffee brand — an internationally marketed special...
Puerto Rico Coffee Exports: The 1890s Peak to Modern Decline
Puerto Rico was the world's sixth-largest coffee exporter during the 1890s — a golden age when 8...
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 ...
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
Long before Alto Grande Super Premium became famous as the coffee of popes and kings, the founda...
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...