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PANAMA FINCA LERIDA
GEISHA NATURAL
Orange blossom • Citrus • Candied Orange • Earl Grey
Lérida Estate
FINCA LERIDA : Alto Quiel, Boquete, Panama
Varietal : Geisha
Process : Natural processed sun dried on raised up beds for 28 days
Altitude : 1,750masl
Harvest : November - May
Finca Lerida is a farm with a rich and unique history. Its founder, Tollef B. Monniche, came to Panama from Norway in 1907 to work as an engineer on the Panama Canal. Tollef retired in 1924, and bought a small farm in Boquete, Panama with his wife - the property was called "Lerida" after the city in Spain. He built a house and on the property, and went to work planting coffee trees as well as fruits and vegetables. He built a dam on the farm, to provide water to the coffee processing plant there, and also developed and patented a device, called the "Sifon" to separate ripe cherries from unripe ones. This device is still in use today, not only at Finca Lerida, but also on coffee farms worldwide.
This renowned coffee farm 'Finca Lerida' is located at an altitude between 1,550masl and 1,850masl on the slopes of Volcan Baru. This area has cool and misty climate with volcanic soil that result in the unique Panamanian Geisha profiles.
Finca Lerida Coffee Estate has been dedicated to produce and export various cultivars such as Caturra, Catuai, and of course Geisha over a century since they first traded with Germany.
The Amoruso family leads this renowned estate, which pioneered Panamanian coffee export and consistently wins the awards.
Lerida Geisha Natural involved drying the coffee cherries around 28 days in raised beds, intensifying its inherent sweetness and yielding complex flavors of fruity forward.