pretty small shoes

Now is the time to open your first Christmas present!

Log on to our website and discover our special gift of 10% off all your purchases until January 7th 2009.

Whether you prefer whole beans, ground coffee or our gourmet instant, you can enjoy the unique taste of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee at a very special Christmas price! With an additional 10% off our 56.7g / 2oz bags of either whole bean or ground coffee you can buy the coffee lover in your life a stocking filler of the world's most exclusive coffee for less than £5.

Happy Christmas from all at the Blue Mountain Emporium!

The perfect Christmas Present!

We all know someone who is hard to buy for! You know, they are always the one who either has everything, or likes nothing! For those of you who are already racking your brains trying to find a unique gift for that special someone look no further!

Why not buy a Blue Mountain Emporium gift certificate and give them the taste of true coffee luxury? Your friend or loved one can choose for themselves whether they would like some of our Jamaica Blue Mountain whole beans, our ground coffee, our Espresso roast or our Instant coffee made from 100% Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee.

Whatever they choose, you can be assured that this is one Christmas present that won’t get left at the back of a cupboard!

First we massage and then we drink Blue Mountain!

I couldn't resist this shot.

Take a leaf out of the squirrels book!

Make time for yourself, unhook the telephone, lay back and relax. You may even want to have a massage while you prepare yourself for your Blue Mountain coffee.

Think I'm exaggerating? Think I'm going to far for a coffee?

For those of you who drink Champagne, would you throw it down in one glugging mouthful?

We are not just selling coffee! This is the Rolls Royce of the coffee world. You need to make time to enjoy and appreciate all the effort that goes into producing our Jablum Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee.

This is not just a drink, it's a taste experience!

Drink and enjoy,
Carole.

Christmas shopping already?

It has to be that time again! The shops have all their Christmas packaging on their boxes of chocolate and some are even starting to decorate! I have to admit that I too have actually bought a Christmas present for a friend. I just couldn’t resist when I saw something that I knew she would like.

Are you trying to think of what to buy your friends and family?

Why not treat them to some Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee, the very best coffee that money can buy?

At just £6 our 2oz bags of either ground coffee or whole beans are the perfect size to pop in with your gifts as a stocking filler or why not splurge and provide the coffee lover in your life with the ideal way of indulging their passion with a larger pack of either ground Blue Mountain, whole beans or our espresso roast.

Whatever you decide to buy, happy shopping!

Carole.

Welcome to the Blue Mountain Emporium, the home of 'Coffee With Conscience'.

http://www.bluemountainemporium.co.uk/

As it is currently impossible to buy Fairtrade Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, we wanted to provide an ethical alternative for the discerning shopper and I felt that this blog would give me the perfect opportunity to share the thinking behind the ethos of our business.

I first visited Jamaica 20 years ago, a few months before we were married, at a time when the British pound was worth about 8 Jamaican dollars. As the years have gone by, we have watched the rapid decline of the Jamaican economy and have been horrified to see just how little a Jamaican dollar is now able to buy. With the current exchange rate at £1 to $129 Jamaican dollars, (it was 140 dollars to the pound last summer), you must appreciate that it can be very difficult for some families to find the money to put their children through High School. Up to quite recently Junior Schools were also fee paying but the Government are not currently in a position to abolish them in secondary schools as well. We look forward to the day when this will be possible. In addition to the fees, parents have to provide their children's books as well as uniform, an even bigger expense.

We love Jamaica and its people and want to help to invest in its future. We believe that a prosperous nation needs to be a healthy and well educated one. Throughout the year we will be placing 10% of our profits into an account ready to be paid into a scholarship fund for the beginning of the academic year 2009. As the years pass we hope to be able support children not just through High School, but through college as well. If the time comes when the Goverment is able to provide free education for all, we hope to divert our 10% into funding for medical treatment.

I am sorry if the tone of this blog seems unduly solemn to you, but we are serious in our commitment to the children of Jamaica and we hope that you are too. Some coffee blogs seem to be very serious about the technical side of roasting coffee beans; we, however, want you to thoroughly enjoy drinking it. We leave the technical details to the experts in Jamaica and concentrate on putting a smile on your face when you taste Blue Mountain Coffee the way it should be roasted. Keep an eye on the recipes on our website. You might just find a new way of enjoying your favourite drink!