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Dominican Coffee: The Best In All The World
By Jane Goodwin | March 29, 2007
When Christopher Columbus first stepped onto the New World, which, as you know, wasn’t the United States at all, but the Dominican Republic, he was incredibly impressed with the beauty of this new land.
In his diary, he wrote, “This is the most beautiful land that human eyes have ever seen.” He was right, too. Nowhere on earth will you see sights such as can be seen in the Dominican Republic.
Nowhere on earth will you taste coffee such as can be tasted here, either. Dominican coffee is famous, and for a very good reason. Its origins and its current cultivation both contribute to the distinctive flavor of Dominican coffee.
Three hundred years after Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered the Dominican Republic, coffee seeds from a plant that came from Louis XIV’s private royal stock took root in Hispaniola (now the Dominican Republic) and the rest, as they say, is history.
Dominican Republic coffee is so fantastic that most of it is not even made available for export: it stays within the country’s borders. Dominican Republic coffee is a symbol of the tranquil lifestyle of the people here. However, Dominican Republic coffee is also one of the main things tourists request. Its reputation precedes it, and the coffee here is one of the most popular things the island produces.
Coffee here is not like coffee grown anywhere else. For one thing, the Dominican Republic’s climate varies, and the terrain changes; therefore, coffee is grown year-round here, and the flavor, which is altered by soil and terrain, has a flavor unlike coffee grown anywhere else in the world. The Dominican coffees are in a class by themselves, and that class, bar none, is fantastic.
There are four mountain ranges in the Dominican Republic, and if you remember your geography, mountain ranges have microclimates. In these microclimates are nestled small coffee farms, and no two farms produce the same flavor of coffee.
King Louis XVI would probably not recognize this coffee, even though all Dominican coffee is descended from one of the French king’s own private stock of plants. It’s even better now than it was back then. Every day it gets better.
It’s already the best, and still it gets better. Have a cup. You can order it from specialty shops and from the internet, of course, but wouldn’t it taste a lot better from the balcony of a Dominican hotel?
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