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Panama Boquete Mama Cata Estate Green Top Gesha Lot 58DEI37

Flavor Description

The dry aroma features lemon, bergamot, and floral notes.

On entry you taste sweet-and-sour lemon black tea, citrus, and bergamot, complemented by fresh jasmine essence, pomelo, and honey water. The mouthfeel is smooth, with a sweet and charming flavour profile.

High-Quality Coffee Beans Grown with GPS Technology

An estate you cannot miss: Panama Mama Cata Estate.

As the third wave of specialty coffee has developed, not only have coffee drinkers become more sophisticated, but so have the coffee producers. To grow better coffee beans, estate owners, cooperatives, processing stations, and even small farmers continuously improve their cultivation, quality control, and green bean processing methods.

On our journey to explore coffee origins, we discovered an ultra-advanced estate, Panama Mama Cata Estate. Let us show you how Mama Cata produces delicious coffee while guaranteeing excellent quality in every batch.

About Mama Cata Estate

Mama Cata Estate, located in the Alto Quiel region of Boquete, Panama, is run by the Garrido family. Alto Quiel should be familiar to many, as numerous top-tier Panamanian coffees originate from this area.

The Garrido family also operates a processing station outside Boquete town, where coffee cherries go through everything from pulping to storage. Estate owner Jose David Garrido has implemented multiple improvements, raising the farm's processing techniques and quality control, including classifying washed processed beans by batch and running cupping sessions.

In 1997, Jose David Garrido took over the management of Mama Cata Estate. The estate's geographical position is exceptionally advantageous, sitting at elevations ranging from 1,500 to 1,700 meters, with annual average temperatures between 12 and 26 degrees Celsius. The volcanic soil is extremely fertile, and average rainfall is approximately 175 inches. This natural microclimate gives the coffee trees growing here sufficient nutrients to absorb.

Technology-Driven Excellence

Unlike traditional estates, Mama Cata Estate uses GPS observation systems. Through technological data and the conclusions drawn from it, the Garrido family can understand the species, soil composition, health status, and production conditions of each coffee tree, then use those variables effectively to control quality. With this GPS data they can also see which batches are ready to harvest. During the cherry harvest, the most critical task is identifying and picking the ripest cherries, and with this technological help it becomes far easier. Even natural drying is monitored by high-tech weather stations. Coffee produced with such care rightly deserves to win championships in Panamanian competitions.

Afterward the beans undergo hulling, classification, and cupping for grading before being arranged for shipment. Each batch of beans is not blended but individually packaged for shipment, ensuring Mama Cata Estate's excellent quality.

Rich Heritage and Achievements

There is actually a story behind Mama Cata Estate. Before Panama became a nation, Mr. Monic owned what is now Mama Cata Estate, when the estate even had its own currency, called Texas. Later it passed to Mr. Fisher, who, after his wife's passing, married his housekeeper Catalina. The Fisher family introduced Geisha early on, but only cultivated it in small batches, focusing mainly on the traditional Typica variety.

Over several years, Mama Cata Estate's washed Typica won the championship three times in the Panamanian Coffee Competition. Today their strength is even more formidable, taking 16th place in the Natural Geisha category, 4th place in the Washed Geisha category, 5th place in the Innovation category, and 4th place in the Traditional Washed category in 2016.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Mama Cata's Gesha shows just how much a single Boquete microclimate can shape the variety, and Panama remains the reference point for anyone exploring high-altitude Gesha. FrontStreet's Esmeralda Red Label Geisha, officially "Esmeralda Special", is grown at 1,600-1,800 meters, and every lot is cupped above 90 points and carries its own number, with each batch drawn from a single plot such as Jaramillo. For a friendlier entry into the Panama profile, FrontStreet's Boquete Geisha delivers the classic orange-blossom honey, oolong-tea body, and delicate fruit sweetness with clear layering. The Green Label series, sold under the name "Private Collection", blends lots from several plots to express the estate's signature high-altitude Gesha character at a more accessible price. Beyond Panama, FrontStreet's Geisha Village Gold Label, made from the Geisha 1931 variety with refined natural processing, brings floral complexity and a long finish, while the Red Label and the Ethiopia Grana Gesha show how the variety's original highland home in Ethiopia interprets the same delicate Gesha character.