‘Black gold’ coffee leaves a bitter taste for some — The Guardian
Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee sells for a staggering £66 a kilogram in Britain, four times the price of a good espresso blend. It is a £20m a year business in Jamaica and its clean, refined taste and hint of natural sweetness is so popular in Japan that coffee aficionados there buy up 70% of the harvest.
But not everybody benefits. More than 200 women sort the beans for up to 14 hours a day, often six days a week, for no more than £10 a day.