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Old Tavern Coffee Estate
About 1.5km southwest of the hamlet of Section and some 1200m above sea level, there’s a small, anonymous cottage that you would surely pass by if you didn’t know that its occupants, Alex and Dorothy Twyman, produce the best of the best of Blue Mountain coffee. Alex immigrated to Jamaica from England in 1958 and started growing coffee a decade later. Dorothy oversees the roasting, meticulously performing quality control by taste. The environmentally conscious Twymans keep their use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers to a bare minimum and compost all by-products before returning them to the soil. Although the Twymans’ coffee is widely acclaimed as the best on the …
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Flamstead
Guava Ridge is the site of a ridge-crest junction for Content Gap and sights to the north. A road to the right, signed for ‘Bellevue House’ 50m east of Guava Ridge, leads 6km through pine and eucalyptus forests to the coffee plantation of Flamstead. This former great house of Governor Edward Eyre was a lookout from which Horatio Nelson and other British naval officers surveyed the Port Royal base. Views over the Palisadoes and Kingston Harbour are fabulous.
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