Revival of Bourbon Pointe Coffee
Japanese Asahi.com reported the revival of this French coffee once loved by Louis 15th and Balzac.
I could not find any other web page that reports this news, so below is the quick and dirty translation using Google Translate Beta (Japanese to English.) I will keep improving the sentences on this page so it will make more sense to human.
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Bourbons Pointe is a legendary coffee kind that Louis 15 world and great writer Balzac had habitually drunk. It was forgotten for a long time, but, it revived in the French territory Reunion island, the birthplace. Obtaining the cooperation of the Japanese coffee company, harvesting continues towards the first shipment of this spring.
Vicissitudes of Pointe are history of ups and downs of the Reunion island. Pointe was discovered in 18th centry, when the island was called the Bourbons island, taking the name of the royal family. It was around 18th century, the island was base of Cape of Good Hope route where the east Indian company made their fortune. The island lost geographical importance after the opening of the Suez canal. Pointe cultivation was difficult, and it could not be turned into mass production. Production continued minutely, but record of export stopped in 1942.
To the UCC Uesima coffee (head office Kobe city) the technician and Kawasima Akira and others cooperated the coffee bean revival of vision well. Every year 1 times it visited the same island from 99, care of the wood and it devised the place where it plants.
The french government from 01 began support in the technical aspect. The french national agricultural research and development international cooperative center (CIRAD) dispatching the research worker for cultivation guidance. National research and development center (IRD) research of the gene was started and test cultivation was begun. Reunion prefecture the European Union (EU) from obtaining fund, it decided the help of 2,000,000 Euro.
[goran] of production union length of local end originally the sugarcane farmer. You say that the coffee where the ancestor raises is made to revive it makes also our prides revive.
As for Pointe which is harvested form of the bean is a special feature. Small pieces and density are hard high at depth. Also the point, the caffeine quantity half or less of the other kind is large. The sweet fragrance the research worker of CIRAD which test drinking is done like the flower of the lemon. Being light, you feel aroma. High quality unique taste and guarantee are pushed.
UCC which continues cooperation at the locale begins the sale for the Japanese market from the spring. It diversifies also the coffee e.g., the difference of the taste by the area of production and meteorological condition is enjoyed. And this taste is agreeable to the Japanese. Reunion Coffee is not the simply unusual sufficient bean??, that you expect. As for simply, this year arriving approximately 300 kilometers. For a while, still it may become the coffee of vision.
Keyword: The Reunion island it floats in the Indian ocean of east approximately 800 kilometers of the Madagascar island. With population approximately 780,000 person area 2512 square kilometers. But sugarcane cultivation and sight-seeing main industry, unemployment rate exceeds 30%.