A highland zone across parts of San Cristóbal, Peravia and San José de Ocoa provinces whose coffee holds an EU protected designation of origin.
Café de Valdesia comes from the provinces of San Cristóbal, Peravia and San José de Ocoa and is registered as a protected designation of origin. The production area lies between 600 and 1,300 m, and the coffee is Arabica of the Typica and Caturra varieties. The specification says bean size and average sucrose and caffeine content run higher than in coffees grown elsewhere in the country.
Field notes
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The Dominican Coffee Council announced the protected designation on National Coffee Day, 11 April 2016, and it was entered in the EU register on 29 June 2016.
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Coffee sold as Café de Valdesia must be both grown and processed inside the protected area, and the designation is reported to originate in Peravia (Baní) province.
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The UK recognised the name in its own protected-names scheme on 31 December 2020.
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- Cafe de Valdesia is recognised in the EU as Protected Designation of Origin · oriGIn (Organization for an International Geographical Indications Network)
- Cafe de Valdesia - protected food name · GOV.UK
- Café de Valdesia designation of origin · DR1