Talk:Uchunari coffee

actually unlike any of the editors i live here in peru and can attest to teh informtional veracity of this product, 15000usd per kilo, extremely difficult production etc.... previously there was only said coffee availale from, i believe indonesia and only recently has it come to market sourced in peru. I can attest to its availability is yorkville, toronto as well. verifiable? if wikipedia has money to send folks to the site please conatct me otherwise it is HIGHLY likely that the folks in production regions do NOT have very much access to modern communication media nor background/education to make use thereof, thus such a demand would be rather orientalist. Also i can attest to teh existence of teh peruvian civet having seen such in my travels. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.222.248.132 (talk) 22:53, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

There are no civets in the Americas, unless someone imported them from Asia or Africa. If what you saw is the animal in the article here, that's a coati, which is not related to civets. As to the cost, the editor has said on my talk page that it's mostly due to the cost of the packaging, which is gold-plated silver. KarlM (talk) 06:53, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

Serious problems beyond repair

In case the PROD is deleted, here are reasons why this should be deleted:

• No web references exist prior to the date of the article's creation; it's a product sold only through one shop in England with no verifiable evidence that the material presented in the article is true.
• Some of it is demonstrably false or patently ridiculous. £7,875/lb for coffee? That's nearly the price of gold. Palm civets are not only not found in South America, the animals pictured are not civets at all, but coatis (which are from South America). The word "uchunari" does not seem to have any existence outside of the brand name of this coffee.
• The main author is both involved in sales/promotion of it (see [1]), and announced on their own web page that WP is being used to promote it[2]:

For few days, the Uchunari coffee has entered the web on the most visited information website, Wikipedia. ;

The article introduces the Uchunari grade 0 coffee and explains how it imposes itself as the most exclusive coffee in the world.

It draws the whole course of the coffee, from its source in the farm of Luciano UbanoSacaca in Peru to the buyer Terra Nera - an independent coffee roaster based in London - through the entire process of production and the coffee broker, D.R. Wakefield & Company Limited.

The article presents all the characteristics of the Uchunari grade O coffee and most of all underlines the differences with the Kopi Luwak.

Through the article, all the people involved in the process are introduced even the silversmith Rebecca H. Joselyn who created a special limited edition package to the Uchunari grade 0 coffee.

Here is the article link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchunari_coffee

Please note that you can also find a version in French, Italian and Spanish.

• The unavoidable conclusion is that this article is purely promotional and contains spurious information concocted for marketing purposes. There's too much of this nonsense on WP already. KarlM (talk) 08:10, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your research and for writing it here. Please not delete this talkpage too quick, I made an attempt to inform the other projects. Thanks especially for identifying the animal. --Martin H. (talk) 08:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge with Kopi Luwak?

Due to the extensive coverage this type of coffee has received (google "poop coffee"), I would suggesst a merge with the existing article on the Asian and African varieties of "digested bean" coffee, Kopi Luwak. Gtwfan52 (talk) 19:30, 2 May 2012 (UTC)

• I agree with that. Nucleos (talk) 10:46, 3 May 2012 (UTC)