FrontStreet Coffee Specialty Single-Origin Coffee Beans: Panama Hartman Estate Caturra Red Wine Process

The moment you grind this batch of red wine process Caturra, an intense fruit-wine fragrance rises from the grounds, underscored by fresh, smoky wood-spice notes. Layered on top is the distinctive berry-like sweetness that comes from extended drying, and the aroma alone is enough to stop you in your tracks.

In the cup, it delivers a rush of tropical fruit — like a cocktail blended from passion fruit, mango, orange, assorted berries, and peach wine. It really does taste like a cocktail that nature mixed herself.

Coffee Information

Producer: FrontStreet Coffee
Ingredients: House-roasted
Shelf Life: 30 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk
Flavor Intensity: Medium
Bean State: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Panama
Roast Level: Medium roast

Coffee Details

Country: Panama
Grade: SHG
Region: Volcán, Chiriquí
Altitude: 1,250–1,700 meters
Processing Method: Red wine (anaerobic wine-style) process
Variety: Caturra
Estates: Hartmann Estate
Flavor Notes: Smoky wood spice, berries, fruit-wine aroma

Panama Hartmann Estate Caturra Red Wine Process

About Hartmann Estate

The story behind Hartmann Estate is every bit as legendary as its coffee. The estate sits in Santa Clara, in Panama's Chiriquí Province. Its founder, Alois "Luis" Hartmann, was born on June 20, 1891, in Moravia, then part of Austria-Hungary and now the Czech Republic. He died on May 25, 1970, at the age of 78.

As a young boy at the outbreak of World War I, he became separated from his family. With his mother's help he stowed away aboard a ship bound for Pennsylvania in the United States and survived; his two older brothers enlisted and both lost their lives in the war. Luis drifted through several countries with companions before reaching Panama in 1911. He settled in Chiriquí Province in 1912 and made his home around the Candela area, where he raised the first small cabin in what was then pristine forest.

Today, Hartmann Estate is the family business Ratibor Hartmann, Luis's son, formally established in 1940. In 1966 Ratibor married Dinorza Sandi from Costa Rica, and the couple raised five children — Ratibor Jr., Allan, Alexander, Alice, and Kelly. Each family member takes charge of a different part of the operation, from coffee cultivation and harvesting to processing and estate tours. A family that has been growing coffee for more than a century is, in itself, a piece of Panamanian coffee history.

The family runs a professional cupping laboratory and sample-roasting room on site, and every lot of coffee cherries is cupped with care before it leaves the estate. That scientific approach, combined with over a hundred years of accumulated family experience, is what keeps the quality of Hartmann coffee so remarkably stable.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If this Panamanian Caturra wets your appetite for the country's famous gems, try the FrontStreet Boquete Washed Geisha. Grown at 1,600 meters on the volcanic slopes of Boquete, where cool nights and frequent cloud cover slow the cherries' ripening, it brews into a cup full of jasmine florals, green tea, honey, and bright citrus and orange notes — an approachable, estate-level introduction to Geisha.

For something with a touch of that Geisha character at a friendlier price, the FrontStreet Panama Washed "Flower Butterfly" combines Geisha, Caturra, and Catuai genetics from the Barú volcano area. It pairs the body and citrus acidity of Caturra with jasmine-like Geisha aromatics, and works beautifully both as a pour-over and as a cold brew.