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C Story / Yujia Photo / Yunnan Specialty Coffee Community

DISCOVER THE

WONDERS

of Speciality Coffee in Yunnan

In fact, the story of Yunnan coffee began 130 years ago. contributing to 98% of the country’s total production. The
Reputedly, Typica variety came to settle down in local previous thriving Typica and Bourbon have given way to
minority villages of the border province from neighboring Catimor and T8667/T5175 (a cross between Timor Hybrid
Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos through Western colonial 832/1 and Caturra), which account for 90% of the total
moves and civil marriages. Historical records say that planted area. Villages and enterprises dedicated to coffee
Alfred Liétard, a French missionary who arrived at Yunnan growing and producing flourish along the basins of Lan-
via Vietnam in 1904, grew a coffee plant he had brought cang and Nujiang Rivers. Eight prefectures and cities –
In recent years, Yunnan coffee has been a frequenter with him from the church in Zhukula Village. Irrigated by Pu’er, Baoshan, Lincang, Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Dali,
on the bean menu of coffee shops, no matter in the gurgling Yupao River, the little plant thrived and Nujiang and Wenshan – are co-listed as major coffee-pro-
quenched the thirst for coffee for all the Catholic church- ducing regions of Yunnan.
China or beyond; big chain names have also launched es across Dali Prefecture in the next half century; some
campaigns for the category which was stuck in a a thousand offspring are still alive in Yunnan today. Small-
plight. For the once nameless Yunnan coffee whose scale plantings started in the 1950s, when China’s first
Arabica coffee plantation was established in Lujiangba,
existence was even unknown to many locals, its Baoshan City to supply the Soviet Union and Eastern
stereotypes such as a synonym of shabby instant Europe. Today, many “old varieties” of Typica and Bour-
bon coffee plants can still be found in the city. Yunnan
coffee seem to have somehow been diluted. has now become the largest coffee producer in China, 77

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