The melding of coffee and chocolate flavors into mocha seems so intuitive that it would predate time, but the ancestry of our modern-day mocha is often traced back to eighteenth-century Italy.

When was the mocha invented?

Origin of the Term Mocha

The fact is that the word mocha did not originally have anything to do with chocolate or a combination of chocolate and coffee. The term actually originated as early as 1773 and referred to a variety of coffee.

How long has mocha been around?

Mocha is a port city on Yemen's south western coast that borders the Red Sea. It has been associated with coffee since its founding in the 1300s, according to Encyclopedia Britannica, but the heyday of its trade with Europe came during the founding of a European coffee culture in the 1700s.