How Much Does Panama Iletta Coffee Cost? Panama Iletta Estate Coffee Prices

Panama's Main Coffee Growing Regions

Boquete: This region produces coffee in large quantities with excellent quality, making it the highest-producing and highest-quality coffee area in Panama.

Volcan: Coffee from this area is characterized by mild, balanced flavors. It has gradually drawn the attention of international experts and enthusiasts, and is expected to compete on equal footing with Boquete before long.

Santa Clara: Fertile coffee farms here are irrigated and nourished by the clear river water of the Chorerra Waterfall. Its proximity to the Panama Canal also lets fresh, pure Panamanian coffee be shipped conveniently around the world.

Piedra de Candela: Considered to hold the greatest potential for developing large-scale, high-quality specialty coffee.

This batch offers some of the purest original flavors. Because the Eleta Estate SHB Washed coffee comes from high-altitude Catuai trees, it carries strong fruity and floral aromas. Flavor characteristics: creamy bread, apricot kernel sweetness, cane sugar sweetness, rounded acidity, complex aromatics, balanced sweet and sour, and a pleasant mouthfeel.

The Caturra Variety

Caturra is a natural variant of Arabica Bourbon, discovered in Brazil in 1937. The plant is shorter and smaller than Bourbon. Though it inherits Bourbon's lineage, it is relatively weak in disease resistance, yet yields more than Bourbon. Despite being discovered in Brazil, Caturra isn't well suited to growing there and was never cultivated at scale in the country; instead it became hugely popular across Central and South America, with Colombia, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua planting it extensively.

Beyond the botany, you're probably more curious about flavor. The higher the altitude where Caturra grows, the better the quality — and the lower the yield. Lightly roasted, Caturra shows prominent acidic aromatics and a bright overall profile, and with proper processing its sweetness can perform exceptionally well. Compared with Bourbon, however, Caturra has a relatively thinner body and somewhat less mouthfeel cleanliness.

Caturra usually produces red cherries, but in a few extremely rare regions there are yellow Caturra varieties — Hawaii, for example, grows very small quantities of yellow Caturra.

Coffee Bean Classification Systems

Coffee grading is not standardized worldwide. Every producing country has its own system and its own grade names, which is why you may see terms like "SHB," "AA+," "Supremo," "Extra-Fancy," or "Peaberry" on packaging — these are all coffee grade labels. Roasted beans on the market sometimes indicate the grade of the single-origin lot; the more detailed the grade labeling, generally the better the coffee. Ordinary commercial coffee usually doesn't carry such information.

Manufacturer: FrontStreet Coffee Ingredients: In-house roasted Shelf Life: 30 days Net Weight: 227g Packaging: Bulk Flavor Profile: Neutral Coffee Bean State: Roasted Contains Sugar: Sugar-free Origin: Panama Coffee Type: Other

Panama MC Santa Clara Eleta SHB Washed

Country: Panama

Grade: SHB

Region: Santa Clara

Altitude: Average 1600 meters

Processing Method: Washed

Brewing Instructions

Panama Eleta pour-over: 15g coffee, medium grind (Fujimaru demon-tooth blade #4), V60 dripper, 88-89°C water. First pour with 30g of water for a 27-second bloom, then pour to 105g and stop. Once the water level drops to halfway, continue pouring slowly until you reach 225g. Discard the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Eleta Estate

Eleta Estate (Café de Eleta) sits in a small corner of the Santa Clara region, one kilometer from the Costa Rican border, near La Amistad International Park — a major primary forest reserve within the Central American ecological corridor. The estate began acquiring land in the 1970s, covering approximately 130 hectares, initially running vegetable cultivation and livestock. In 1995 it started growing coffee under the name Café de Eleta S.A., and kept expanding until today's 420 hectares — one of Panama's large-scale plantations and one of its best-known premium coffees. Thanks to abundant water resources, the estate runs its own 530KW hydroelectric plant, which not only covers its own electricity needs but sells surplus power to Distribución de Electricidad Chiriquí S.A. for the grid.

Variety: Caturra

Estate: Eleta Estate

Flavor: Creamy bread, apricot kernel sweetness, rounded acidity

Panama Coffee Excellence

Panama has been Central America's hottest coffee country for the last 5-6 years, largely because the Geisha grown at Hacienda La Esmeralda, run by the Peterson family, drove coffee enthusiasts wild — earning Geisha the title of the world's top coffee bean. For that reason, the Panama Coffee Excellence Cup auction stands apart from the Central and South American cupping competitions, and Panama is also the earliest auction country, holding its event annually in mid-May. Panama impresses not only with Geisha but with continuous innovation in green bean processing: alongside traditional washed processing, it produces the honey processing popular in neighboring Costa Rica, and the natural process gradually emerging across Central America is also made in small quantities here — drawing attention from coffee professionals worldwide.

Coffee arrived in Panama in 1780, when Europeans brought the first Typica trees. The mysterious, beguiling beverage quickly conquered Panamanians' senses, and locals began cultivating it widely. Panama coffee is very smooth, with full-bodied yet lightweight beans and perfectly balanced acidity. Its premium beans offer pure, distinctive flavors, and thanks to its popularity, most of Panama's top coffee is exported to France and Finland.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If you enjoy Panama's balanced, nutty smoothness, FrontStreet Coffee's Brazil Cerrado Red Bourbon offers a similar comfort at an everyday price. A classic single origin from Brazil's renowned Cerrado region, roasted medium, it delivers aromas of creamed peanuts, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut — round in the mouth, non-acidic, with only a light bitter edge — and works just as well through a moka pot, espresso machine (as a SOE), siphon, or French press as it does in a V60.

For a sweeter, more distinctive Brazil, FrontStreet Coffee's Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon from the Mogiana region grows on fertile red volcanic soil near southern Minas. The rare Yellow Bourbon variety — a natural mutation of Red Bourbon — gives a cleaner fruit character, and the cup reveals a sugarcane sweetness you won't find elsewhere, alongside fruit notes and chocolate, whether hand-brewed, moka-potted, or pulled on a home espresso machine.