Introduction to Panama La Esmeralda Estate Brand Flavor Characteristics and Award-Winning Varieties

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Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha Varieties

Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha has 3 brands, classified by altitude:

Auction Geisha (ESMERALDA SPECIAL) (Red Label): Selected from altitudes above 1550 meters.

Boquete Geisha (Green Label): Selected from altitudes around 1500 meters.

ESMERALDA 1,500 (Blue Label): Selected Geisha varieties from altitudes around 1500 meters.

Awards and Recognition

Award Records: (The following are the award records of Hacienda La Esmeralda):

Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Annual Cupping Competition Champion

1st Place Specialty Coffee Association of America Roasters Guild Cupping Pavilion

Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Annual Cupping Competition Second Place

2nd Place Coffee of the Year

Best of Panama Champion

1st Place "Best of Panama"

Rainforest Alliance Coffee Quality Cupping Competition Champion

1st Place Rainforest Alliance for Quality

Brewing Instructions

Hand-pour Blue Label: 15g coffee grounds, medium-fine grind (Fuji ghost tooth burr grinder setting 3.5), V60 dripper, water temperature 91-93°C. First pour 30g water, let bloom for 27 seconds. Pour to 105g then stop. Wait until the water level drops halfway, then continue pouring slowly until reaching 225g total. Avoid the final tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, total extraction time 2:00.

Coffee Information

Panama Geisha (Hacienda La Esmeralda)

Country: Panama

Grade: Blue Label

Region: Slopes of Baru Volcano

Roast Level: Light roast

Processing Method: Washed

Variety: Geisha

Estate: Hacienda La Esmeralda

Flavor Notes: Oolong tea aroma, peach fragrance, honey sweetness

Detailed Specifications

Panama · Hacienda La Esmeralda Geisha Coffee Beans

Panama Geisha (Hacienda La Esmeralda)

Origin: Panama

Region: Located on the slopes of Baru Volcano, the highest peak in western Panama

Estate: Hacienda La Esmeralda

Grade: Blue Label

Growing Altitude: 1450M

Processing Method: Fine washed processing

Special Certification: Rainforest Alliance Certified

Roast Level: Light roast city-

The Panama Auction

What is the Panama auction?

In 1996, during the lowest period of international coffee prices, seven coffee estates in the Boquete and Volcan regions saw the dawn of the specialty coffee era. They organized and formed the famous Panamanian Association of Special Coffees of Panama (SCAP). In 2013, the highest bid for washed Geisha in the BOP (Best of Panama) exceeded $160 per pound, while the highest bid for natural Geisha was won by a natural Geisha from Hacienda La Esmeralda at over $350 per pound.

To date, La Esmeralda estate has won 12 championships in various coffee competitions and has set 3 highest bidding records in online public auctions: $21 in 2004, $50.25 in 2006, and $130 in 2007! Of course, other countries have also seen good coffee reach nearly $50 per pound (Brazil's 2005 CoE champion Fazenda Santa Inês), and Guatemala's 2008 CoE champion El Injerto at $80.20. But note the timing: when La Esmeralda's prices set records, no previous bids had surpassed her, and while others did later, she would then surpass them again. She is truly a record creator, not by accident!

La Esmeralda estate was purchased by Price Peterson's father, Swedish-American banker Rudolph A. Peterson, who once served as President of Bank of America and was a major figure in the financial world of his time. Rudolph bought Hacienda La Esmeralda just for vacationing and later retirement use, probably never expecting that this estate would become world-famous and even become representative of Panama's specialty coffee estates. After Price took over, he segmented the market into three major brands based on altitude and microclimate, cupping performance, and planted varieties. (The Geisha variety was discovered in the Geisha forest of Ethiopia in 1931, then sent to the Coffee Research Institute in Kenya; in 1936 it was introduced to Uganda and Tanzania, and in 1953 Costa Rica introduced it. Geisha didn't receive much attention until one day when Don Pachi originally brought it from the small town of GESHA in southwestern Ethiopia to Costa Rica, after which Geisha then entered Panama along the southern route. Panama's Hacienda La Esmeralda separated it from other varieties and it quickly won the national coffee competition championship.

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Shelf Life: 90 days

Net Weight: 100g

Packaging: Bulk

Origin: Panama

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