Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha El Velo

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 Dried on Drying Beds

Notes: Orange Blossom, Lemongrass, Floral, Peach

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.

El Velo is one of the newest of Hacienda La Esmeralda’s farms, purchased in 2012. This 50 hectare farm is the only one where the flat landscape allows a more uniform pattern, in rows. The farm is planted with Geisha and Catuai varieties, as well as with smaller lots of exotic varieties like Laurina, Pacamara and SL-34.  In addition there are some 400+ other accessions, which are part of Esmeralda’s research initiatives, and were obtained from CATIE.

The farm is planted from 1,650-1,900 masl, although the nature reserve continues up the mountain all the way to 2,900 masl, and is home to the famous Quetzal and other endangered birds.