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FrontStreet Coffee Panama Boquete Hacienda La Esperanza

Country: Panama

Region: Boquete

Grade: SHB

Varieties: Caturra, Catuai, Typica

Roast Level: CITY+ (Medium)

Processing Method: Washed

Growing Environment: Altitude 1400-1600M

Producer/Company: Hacienda La Esperanza

Certification: Organic Certified

Flavor Profile: This organic FrontStreet Coffee Panama Boquete features nut and berry aromas in both dry and wet fragrance. It has low, gentle acidity, high sweetness, and a fine, rich body with an exceptionally long aftertaste. Overall, it feels somewhat similar to Baby Geisha and Sweet Geisha.

Hacienda La Esperanza

Hacienda La Esperanza is located at an altitude of 1400-1600 meters, with an annual production of 300-700 bags. Most processing is completed on the farm using washed processing and sun-drying methods, with the removed husks, pulp, and mucilage used as fertilizer. The estate grows 60% Caturra, 20% Catuai, and 20% Typica and other varieties. The most famous is the Geisha variety, which won the championship in Best of Panama 2008. They also plant many local trees as shade trees that provide soil nutrients, including orange trees and many tropical fruits such as lemons and grapefruits. The estate has a huge tropical rainforest nature reserve, with at least three different mountain wells rich in rainfall. The average annual rainfall is 3200 mm, with daytime temperatures ranging from 16-23°C and nighttime temperatures from 14-20°C.

Hacienda La Esperanza differs from other estates in having a PhD botanist, three professional cuppers, and 100 full-time employees, currently managing six affiliated estates. The estate is owned by the Herrera brothers. In fact, the Herrera brothers' grandfather operated a coffee farm in the Trujillo region of Colombia, which gradually declined, leading the two brothers to leave Colombia. However, they never gave up their dream of returning to their hometown to run a coffee plantation.

After returning to their hometown, the first estate the Herreras purchased was Hacienda La Esperanza in Trujillo, very close to their grandfather's original farm, which now serves as their regional headquarters. The estate itself is 100% organic, with different varieties of coffee trees including Colombia, Castillo, Caturra, and over 14,000 organic Geisha plants. Subsequently, the Herreras purchased four estates in Trujillo and Caicedonia north of Trujillo. Together with La Cardeida estate in Boquete, Panama, rented in 2005, they now have six estates under their management, with a total coffee planting area of 213 hectares.

Innovation and Excellence

Cafe Granja La Esperanza's estates are located in eight unique microclimate regions across three mountain ranges in Colombia, giving their botanists excellent opportunities to experiment with different microclimates and terroir flavors, different processing methods, and different coffee varieties, combining the rationality of scientists, the business acumen of merchants, and persistence in coffee quality. For example, they create different processing steps and specifications for different microclimates and varieties. From seedling cultivation to export, they have 95 data points to manage all information.

The team led by chief botanist Hernando Tapasco has established climate stations in the estates to track weather data and assist in harvesting decisions. Farm data is continuously collected and analyzed weekly. After harvest, they compare weather data, production data, and cupping data to analyze correlations. Geisha harvesters receive strict training to harvest only mature cherry fruits, paid by the day rather than by weight as in other estates. This prevents workers from harvesting unqualified cherries to meet performance targets. Half of the harvest workers have over six years of experience. After harvest, the fruits are sent to the central processing plant within Hacienda La Esperanza, where each batch of Geisha is marked and processed separately. They first undergo a three-day pre-drying stage in the sun-drying field before being moved to small towers for drying. Strict quality control is another key factor - in Cerro Azul estate, there are 40,000-45,000 Geisha trees, but only 5-7,000 of them can produce Geisha beans that carry the Cerro Azul brand.

Hacienda La Esperanza's experimentation and innovation with varieties seem endless, continuously testing new varieties. Besides the organic Caturra that originally occupied most of the area in Hacienda La Esperanza, they have Geisha, organic Geisha, Mocha, Bourbon (including red, yellow, and Tekisik varieties), Pointed Bourbon, Pacamara, San Bernardo, and Pache. They truly bring the serious attitude that wineries have toward grape varieties into coffee. After Geisha, the Pacamara, Bourbon, and even Pointed Bourbon from Hacienda La Esperanza continue to create surprise and admiration in the specialty coffee industry.

Their approach finally paid off. As early as the 2008 "Best of Panama" competition, La Cardeida, rented by Hacienda La Esperanza, won the Best of Panama championship with a high score of 93.16. In the 2012 Coffee of the Year Triple Crown, three estates currently mainly growing Geisha won separately: Cerro Azul second, Las Margarita third, and Buenos Aires Experimental Estate seventh.

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