I am so excited to get some Geisha this year! This is not a dark roasted coffee! I hope to also get some from Panama this year. It should arive in a few days. $40 for a twelve oz. bag. I may drink all of it so reserve it while it is here!
If you don’t know the story of the Gesha cultivar, it is an old coffee type from Ethiopia that was brought to an experimental coffee garden in Costa Rica years ago as a specimen sample. It was distributed to a few farms for testing on small plots, but not much was thought of it until one of these, Esmeralda in Panama, separated it from the other cultivars and entered it in the national competition. It was so outrageously different, with fruited and floral character like a Yirga Cheffe coffee from half a world away. Now that the word is out, other small farms that received some of the seed have tried to separate their Gesha coffee as well, as is the case here. The results are always a bit different: the cultivar “expresses” itself differently in terms of cup flavors at each location, influenced by weather, soil, altitude and the like. And with this coffee from the region of Acatenango, we have a Gesha cup that expresses much of that floral intensity that’s become synonymous with the “Gesha” name. Harvest was quite productive this year as the owner of the farm has dedicated more of his farm to this varietal.
