The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
VINTAGING
Verb
vintaging
present participle of vintage
Noun
vintaging (plural vintagings)
The act of vintaging.
Source: Wiktionary
Vint"a*ging, n.
Definition: The act of gathering the vintage, or crop of grapes.
VINTAGE
Vint"age (; 48), n. Etym: [Corrupted by influence of vintner, vintry, from OE. vindage, vendage, for vendange, OF. vendenge, F. vendange, from L. vindemia; vinum wine, grapes + demere to take off; de + emere, originally, to take. See Wine, Redeem, and cf. Vindemial.]
1. The produce of the vine for one season, in grapes or in wine; as, the vintage is abundant; the vintage of 1840.
2. The act or time of gathering the crop of grapes, or making the wine for a season. Vintage spring, a wine fount.
– Vintage time, the time of gathering grapes and making wine. Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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