A Yemeni port that once monopolized the world's entire coffee supply — until the Dutch smuggled plants out and broke the monopoly forever.
A type of fine coffee originally exported from the Yemeni port of Mocha, or a flavoring combining coffee and chocolate.
From Mocha (al-Mukha), a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen that was the primary coffee export hub from the 15th to 18th centuries Key roots: al-Mukhā (Arabic: "Yemeni port city").
The port of Mocha once had a global monopoly on the coffee trade — all coffee in the world passed through this single Yemeni harbor. The Dutch and French eventually smuggled live coffee plants out of Yemen, breaking the monopoly and establishing plantations in Java and the Caribbean that ended Mocha's dominance.