Panama | Lamastus Family Estate Elida Green Tip | Geisha | ASD Natural | Filter | 100g

Origin

• 🇵🇦 Panama· Boquete

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40

Region: Boquete Elevation: 1850 masl 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.: GeishaGesha (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. Process: ASD NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. Notes: Exotic, jammy AF, plums, & wineyFunky / lacticTasting language for deliberate fermentation flavor: yogurt-like tang (lactic), winey or boozy notes, overripe fruit. A feature in experimental lots, a defect in classic ones. About: Lamastus Family Estates are the Best of Panama winners in both the 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. and natural Geisha categories for 2019. This is our fifth year working with owner Wilford Lamastus. This particular lot derives from the very same tablon (coffee plot) that won the Best of Panama competition in 2019. ASD (AnaerobicAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. Slow Dry) is a method which creates flavours of exotic tropical fruits through fermentation without oxygen. It is then dried for +45 days. It is fair to say that some of the best coffees on the planet come from these estates.