 Our 2011 La Esmeralda Special Geisha Mario San Jose
100% Geisha variety
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Esmeralda Special Geisha coffee is the gold standard of geishas. Our 2011 lot is was picked in March and is called the Mario San Jose'. The Mario area of the farm in the Jaramillo region of Boquete produces the top ranking Esmeralda Special Geisha. It is from the same high altitude (1500-1650m) award-winning area of Mario in Jaramillo and not one of the new areas.
As usual, we purchased this coffee at auction. There were only 13 lots of this Mario San Jose and the competition for it was fierce. Most of this coffee was purchased at auction by European and Far East clients, so the quantity here in the U.S. is very low. La Esmeralda is available in very limited quantities!
World's #1 Coffee at the Specialty Coffee Assn. annual Coffee of the Year competition in 2005, 2006, 2007, and #2 in 2008, 2009 & 2010. Over 100 of the world's best coffee enter this annual competition, and Panama's Esmeralda Geisha (gesha varietal) has been taking it, and the world, by storm. It has also ranked #1 at the Best of Panama competition in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 & 2010 (not entered in 2008), and took #1 in the 2009, 2008, 2007, 206 and 2004 Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality.
Like no other coffee, the complex flavor of Esmeralda is often described as a coffee trying to be a tea. It smells like jasmine and coffee blossoms, with spectacular aromatic quality and hints of blackberry, mango, chocolate, nuts, lemon, and more. A "masterpiece" coffee by the Peterson family of Hacienda Esmeralda!
2011 Cupping Notes: Floral (jasmine), elegant, crisp, fresh, sweet, stone fruit, balanced and energetic.
This coffee scores in the 94-96 range - about as good as you can get.
Esmeralda Especial is the 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 #1 Rainforest Alliance Certified .
THESE BAGS ARE 8 or 12 OZ. OF ROASTED WHOLE BEAN COFFEE.
- Esmeralda Especial 2010
By Hacienda La Esmeralda
- Farm Name: Hacienda La Esmeralda
- Owner: Peterson Family
- Growing Region: Mario area of Jaramillo
- Coffee Name: Esmeralda Special-Mario San Jose
- Harvest Date: March 2011
- Variety: Geisha
- Quality: SHB
- Certification: Rainforest Alliance
- Altitude: 1500-1650m
In Panama, it has always been called The Geisha. It is believed to have arrived in Panama from Costa Rica. The origin and approximate historical chronology of the Geisha is Ethiopia (1931), Kenya (1931-32), Tanzania (1936), Costa Rica (1953), and then Panama. There is a Gesha Mountain, Ethiopia, with alternate spelling of Geisha. The Geisha variety is a low-yielding plant with longer distance between the nodes, less foliage, but a larger fruit. Perhaps because of its low yield, it was lost to all other countries except Panama. In the 1970s, the Petersons, a Swedish-American family moved permanently to farm in Panama. In 2004, Daniel Peterson decided to experiment and find out what the coffee from different areas of the Jaramillo farm tasted like. When they separately processed coffee from one particular variety and one area, they knew they had a very special coffee. The first year it was called Jaramillo Especial and easily took first place in the Best of Panama cupping competition. Panama already had world class coffee and now it had the most outstanding coffee ever produced. The world loved it. It went on to place 1st at the Best of Panama competition in 2005, 2006, 2007, and again in 2009 & 2010. It did not enter in 2008. It also went on to #1 coffee at the Specialty Coffee Association Annual Cupping Competition in 2005, 2006, & 2007, and took 2nd in 2008, 2009 & 2010. In addition, Esmeralda took 1st in the Rainforest Alliance Cupping. Dominating just about every competition it enters, La Esmeralda Special Geisha is like no other. This rare special varietal grown in the micro-climates around Boquete seems to be the perfect combination for a 100-point "masterpiece" coffee. This year the entire geisha production was again divided into different micro-lots harvested in different areas on different dates. Our lot comes from the Mario region of Jaramillo, picked in March and and called Mario San Jose.
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