My trip to Panama and thoughts about Geisha Coffee
During my trip, I spent some days in Panamá City, enjoying Casco Viejo (Old town) and drinking Geisha coffee in all the coffee shops I went.
So after my first impression, I decided to travel to the Panamá’s Coffee Region Boquete. First I visited Finca Dos Jefes (Café de la Luna) Richard a passionate coffee farm owner he was really open and attentive showing me his Coffee plantation.
Richard is fantastic at telling the story about the farm and all the hard work that goes into a cup of coffee.
I have been to many coffee farms, and this is definitely one of my favorites, everything was very interesting, the different varieties of coffee, the berries, harvest, drying process, and more. He roasted green beans for us and made me fresh coffee. It was delicious.
The main purpose for me was to visit a Geisha plantation, so I went to Finca Lerida, a very well known and traditional coffee farm of almost 100 years old.
After a small introduction to the coffee world, we went to the plantation, Geisha trees are very unique, tall with long branches and leaves, they need a lot of time and attention, very high elevation and certain weather conditions and compare to Caturra and Castillo they are not very productive.
The Guide was very kind and knowledgeable of the coffee industry, he realized I was very curious and at the tasting table we tried 3 different Geisha coffees, one of those was the Geisha Coffee that they harvest for the Queen of England, it was highly pleasant to the taste it, that Geisha coffee had a soft and light body intense floral and jasmine-like aroma often described as Earl Grey tea.
But that doesn’t mean all Geishas are amazing always have in mind that quality of coffee is not submitted by the variety, we can also find extraordinary Catuais, Caturras, Pacamaras and Geishas.
And last to want to share the funniest opinion I found on the web about Geisha Coffee:
