
📍 New Coffee Release 📍
PANAMA
HACIENDA LA ESMERALDA
GEISHA WASHED
PRIVATE COLLECTION
Jasmine • Orange • Peach • White Chocolate
This week we have the coffee from one of the best coffee producer in the world who has changed the whole coffee industry by winning the best of Panama competition in 2004, the lot was called lot separation which had 100% Geisha variety in that specific lot from the higher altitude Jaramillo farm and it was blew all the judges by an explosion of juicy brightness and multi-layered aromatics. After 2004 the Geisha variety has significantly become very famous and higher in demand in Specialty coffee market to this day.
This year we got the the classic wash from our favourite farm "JARAMILLO "
The Jaramillo mountain air is wet and cold, perfect for making the aromatics of the Geisha variety sing. Though Geisha variety coffees had been planted sporadically across the area, it was a lot separated out from one small region on this farm that led to the rediscovery of Geisha.
The farm rises, from rolling hills on its lower part, to steep 40 degree inclines higher up, making harvesting a manual and challenging affair. There had been coffee planted on the lower parts of the farm – as many as 15 different sub-varieties, hybrids out of Costa Rica and Brazil, and in 1997 the Peterson family decided to plant higher up.
It is these high altitudes that the Geisha’s bright, floral aromatics express themselves. With cooler temperatures and massive shade trees that have been standing for ages, Jaramillo is the perfect place for this variety to grow. To this day many of our top performing microlots of Geisha coffee come from little patches on the slopes of Jaramillo.