This is 16 oz. unroasted Esmeralda Especial Green Coffee Beans - 2009 Crop. Our 2009 auction micro-lot (Pascua) is from the same area of the annual winning Geisha. It is a late harvest batch that is sublime. Harvested in the month of April with tasting notes of mandarin oranges, jasmine and sugar cane.
World's #1 Coffee of the Year at the Specialty Coffee Assn. annual cuppings in 2005, 2006, 2007, and #2 in 2008 & 2009, but still the #1 Geisha variety. The semi-final score average was higher than the #1 winning Colombian coffee. 2009 Best of Panama #1.
Over 100 of the world's best coffees enter this competition. The Esmeralda Geisha (Gesha) variety of coffee is still taking the coffee world by storm. It has also ranked #1 at the Best of Panama competition for the last four years. Like no other coffee, Esmeralda's complexity is often described as a coffee trying to be a tea. It smells like jasmine, coffee blossoms with spectacular aromatic qualtiy with hints of blackberry, chocolate, mango, lemon, and more. Grown above 5,000 ft. by Hacienda Esmeralda. A "masterpiece" coffee.
Esmeralda Especial is the 2004, 2007 & 2008nbsp;#1 Rainforest Alliance Certified .
THIS IS 16 OZ. GREEN BEANS.
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