Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha Canas Verdes

Region: Canas Verdes, Boquete

Farm: Hacienda La Esmeralda

Lot: Reserva de Cabaña 3 FC

Producer: Rachel Peterson

Altitude: 1700-1850 masl

Harvest: 2025

Varietal: Geisha

Process: Cold Fermentation Cold Room Dry

Notes: Jasmine, Bergamot, Floral, Sweet, Sugarcane, Sparkling Acidity

Roasted by: Loring S7

Roasted for: Filter

Size: 80g

Shipping: within 14 days after roasting

About the farm

In 2004, the Peterson family made history as Jaramillo Geisha broke all records for the highest price ever paid for coffee at the Best of Panama auction. The story of Geisha coffee reaches back to 1936, the time of a British colony in Abyssinia, and Captain Richard Whalley, a Consul for the Bench Maji region, who was tasked with collecting 10 pounds of coffee seeds from the area around Geisha Mountain in what is now Ethiopia. How descendants of these Geisha coffee seeds arrived at Hacienda La Esmeralda, and how their unique flavor expressions were discovered, reflects the complex and at times murky history of the global coffee trade.

Cañas Verdes has a distinct three to four months dry season, but even then, the air is cool. Half of Cañas Verdes is part of the original Peterson holdings purchased in 1967, with the land first dedicated to pasture for beef and, later, dairy cattle. Several small growers have grown coffee in this hard to reach area for some time. After the rediscovery of Geisha, the Peterson family began purchasing smaller lots around the original Cañas Verdes farm and expanding their Geisha production. Since then, many award-winning Esmeralda Geisha lots have come from the hillsides of Cañas Verdes.