The story of Blue Mountain Coffee begins in the early 18th century. Coffee once it arrived, flourished in Jamaica, especially in the cool, misty climate of the Blue Mountains that rise up behind Kingston. Though production is much reduced from the 20 million pounds of coffee produced in Jamaica in the early 19th century, it remains the finest coffee in the world. The story of how coffee arrived in Jamaica is somewhat mundane, so we start our story a little earlier, with the arrival of coffee to the Caribbean.