Gesha - Washed - Hacienda La Esmeralda, Cabaña Abajo 5FB

Origin

• 🇵🇦 Panama· Chiriquí

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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Tastes Like: Coffee Blossom, Peach, Lemon Origin: Cañas Verdes, Hacienda La Esmeralda, Chiriqui, Panama VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: GeshaGesha (Geisha)A rare, jasmine-and-bergamot scented variety originally from Ethiopia's Gesha forest, made famous by Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda. Routinely the most expensive coffee at auction. Producer: The Peterson Family Elevation: 1,700 masl Process: WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. Cabaña Abajo 5 FB was harvested on February 8th, 2025 from the lower part of the Cabaña lot in Hacienda La Esmeralda’s Cañas Verdes Farm. The word abajo means below in Spanish. After harvest, the coffee cherries were depulped, and subsequently fermented in a low temperature room for 72 hours. This microlotMicrolotA small, separately processed and traded parcel of coffee — often a single day's picking from one plot — kept apart because it's exceptional. coffee was slowly dried on raised beds for 20 days.