Grupo Mayan Resorts: Specialty Gourmet Coffee
After an exciting day of water-sports fun and other activities in our Grupo Mayan resorts all along the coasts of Mexico, our guests would like to wind down towards the end of the day, lounging about and drinking a wonderful cup of coffee. Coffee lovers among our various guests would insist in getting only the best gourmet coffee available. Our Grupo Mayan staffs are more than happy to oblige.
Gourmet coffee has become a specialty and a very hot commodity for consumers with very discerning tastes. According to our Grupo Mayan staff, as more sophisticated tastes of gourmet coffee are developed, so does the number of coffee lovers consuming the rich and aromatic beverage derived from gourmet coffee beans. The following are some interesting facts about gourmet coffee that our Grupo Mayan staff has brewed up.
- Gourmet coffee is specialty coffee made from coffee beans that are grown only in certain ideal climates. Also called premium coffee, gourmet coffee beans derive their distinctive flavor, aroma and other unique characteristics because of the type of soil they grow in. According to our Grupo Mayan experts, gourmet coffee provides a more balanced flavor than ordinary coffee mass produced around the world. The richer taste and very high quality comes only through a very rigorous process of certification that gourmet coffee beans undergo.
- The term “specialty coffee” was first used in the 1974 issue of the Tea and Coffee Trade Journal. According to our Grupo Mayan experts, Erna Knutsen first coined the term and used it to describe unique coffee beans with exceptional flavors and grow only in special climates. It was in 1982 that the Specialty Coffee Association of America was established. It is an organization sets quality standards for the specialty-coffee trade industry.
- The nineties saw the booming popularity of specialty gourmet coffee retailers and coffee houses. With an approximately $8.5 billion sales a year in the US alone, gourmet coffee is definitely one of the fastest growing food markets in the world.
- Our coffee experts in Grupo Mayan resorts say that some people even compare gourmet coffee with fine wines. With their distinct aromas and flavor, gourmet coffee and wines have developed a certain following and a connection among consumers. However, according to our Grupo Mayan experts, coffee can even be more complex than wine. Gourmet coffee beans are more demanding and dependent on the type of altitudes, climate and soil variations from which they can grow.
So, if you want the best aromatic and flavorful coffee drink, get yourself a cup or two of a steaming hot cup of gourmet coffee and explore a new world of aroma and flavor.
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