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Santa Felisa Special Lot

Central American Coffee Region - Guatemala Acatenango - "Santa Felisa Estate" Geisha Variety - Orange Honey Process

Guatemala Acatenango "Santa Felisa" Geisha Orange Honey

Region: San Antonio, Acatenango

Farm Owners: Anabella Meneses, Antonio Meneses

Variety: Geisha

Harvesting Method: 100% Hand-picked

Processing Method: Orange Honey

Drying Method: Natural Sun-dried

Altitude: 1200-1500m

Tasting Notes: Distinct citrus and milk chocolate flavors, smooth fruit acidity, excellent balance, and long-lasting aftertaste.

Santa Felisa Estate is devoted to developing small lots of different varieties with different processing methods. More than 30 varieties are carefully managed with cupping quality tracked lot by lot. The farm puts equal weight on whole-ecosystem protection — soil conservation, pest control, and waste management — and keeps developing coffee concepts that benefit the social and natural environment. Just as tirelessly, it invests in the lives and education of everyone who works in coffee in the region.

Roasting Level: Medium-Light Roast - Refreshing Taste

Fruity and acidic, with a refreshing flavor like drinking fruit juice — yet already beginning to feel like true coffee.

Organic JAS Certification - Japanese Agricultural Standards Association

Under the JAS (Japanese Agricultural Standards) law administered by the incorporated association of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, organic certification of agricultural products must come from a third-party certifying institution.

USDA Organic Certification

Under the standards set by the NOP (National Organic Program), the government agency that defines the organic benchmark for the entire United States, this is the organic cultivation certification mark recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Organic Crop Improvement Association Organic Certification

The OCIA is a private non-profit organization for organic agricultural certification. It certifies a range of crops — including soybeans, wheat, corn, and coffee — under its own standards, while also implementing the NOP (National Organic Program) rules that set the organic benchmark for the entire United States.

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Geisha — transliterated from the English "Geisha" — is one of the most beloved varieties in Arabica coffee. Its singular florals and superb sweet-tart character have won over countless coffee lovers, while its low yield, weak disease resistance, and demanding cultivation keep prices climbing. If you want great Geisha without the great price tag, it pays to know the landscape. Panama is where Geisha made its name: in 2003 the Esmeralda estate entered it in the Best of Panama competition, and the judges were so stunned by the flavor that it took the crown with an average cupping score of 94.6, a BOP record that turned Geisha into the world's most coveted champion bean overnight.

At the top of the pyramid sit FrontStreet Esmeralda Red Label ("Esmeralda Special") and Green Label ("Private Collection") Geishas. Red Label grows at 1,600-1,800 meters, every lot must cup above 90 points, and each numbered lot comes from a single small plot — FrontStreet's Red Label hails from the Jaramillo plot — so buyers can choose exactly the nuance they like. Green Label blends lots from multiple plots to express Esmeralda's signature high-altitude Geisha character, at a friendlier price. For a true beginner's taste of "the Geisha flavor," FrontStreet most often recommends the entry-level Panama Boquete Geisha: an affordable cup of classic Panamanian orange-blossom honeyed sweetness, oolong-tea texture, delicate fruit acidity, and clear layering.

Ethiopia, coffee's birthplace, has its own Geisha estates — most famously Geisha Village, founded by a couple 12 miles from the Geisha forest on 475 hectares. They identified the variety closest to Panamanian Geisha (the native "Gori Gesha" lineage) and replanted it on the estate. Its grading is even more intricate than Esmeralda's, spanning three varieties — Gori Gesha, Gesha 1931, and Illubabor Forest — across Gold Label RARITIES, Red Label GROWERS RESERVE, Green Label SINGLE-TERROIR, and Chaka lots. FrontStreet's Gold Label, a Gesha 1931 accounting for 10% of the estate's output, is an exquisite natural process bursting with complexity, often chosen by competition baristas; the Red Label, a Gori Gesha making up 15% of production and scoring 88+ on the SCA 100-point scale, is the estate's single-terroir series with full traceability — farm block, variety, and processing date on every lot.

If you would rather ease in, start with FrontStreet Genlana Estate Geisha from a single-variety farm on the border of Ethiopia's Kochere and Genji Abaya areas. Its washing station, founded in 2014 under Israel Degefa, oversees some 700 hectares of mostly untouched, shade-dotted land. Fully ripe cherries are hand-picked and sun-dried on raised beds for 14-20 days depending on the weather. At a medium-light roast it shows bright citrus acidity, elegant ginger-flower aromatics, the full sweetness of ripe fruit, and Geisha's signature refined finish. To brew Geisha at home, FrontStreet suggests a medium-light roast ground to about 78% passage on a #20 sieve (fine-granulated-sugar size), 91°C water, 15g of coffee in a Hario V60 at a 1:16 ratio, three pours — 30g bloom for 30 seconds, then to 125g, then to 225g — for a total extraction of about 2:10-2:20.