LIMITED | PANAMA | Mama Cata | Toña | Geisha | ASD Natural

Origin

• 🇵🇦 Panama· Boquete

Tasting notes

Character

• Experimental
  50
• Funky
  40
• Sweet
  25

The Garrido family have been growing coffee in Boquete, Panama since 1959, when Teodoro Garrido established the families first farm. In the mid-1970s, Teodoro expanded the family business and purchased another existing farm. Originally established in 1911, making it one of Boquete’s oldest coffee farms, and now named after the previous owner, Mama Cata is home to the best of the Garrido family’s 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.. Toña is the name of the highest section of the farm, where this lot was grown, and is also home to many of the Garrido family’s competition winning coffees, having placed in the top ten, in all three Best of Panama categories (Geisha 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., Geisha 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., & Varietal) multiple times. For this ASD Natural, cherries were fermented in sealed tanks, with little oxygen, before being dried on raised beds. This geisha is sweet and creamy, with notes of honeyHoney processThe skin is removed but some sticky fruit mucilage is left on during drying. Lands between washed and natural: more sweetness and body than washed, cleaner than natural. and cascara (dried coffee cherry).