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Hacienda La Esmeralda Special - Panama | |
12 oz WHOLE BEAN BAG ONLY Featured in Forbes Magazine! 97 Rating BEST PRICE AROUND! For a limited time only just $34.95 Sweet-toned aroma dominated by a distinct honey character. In the cup syrupy mouth feel, giddily and complexly lush with cherryish fruit, floral, and dry, brandyish chocolate notes. The finish is deep, honeyish sweet, and long. Story: The auction on May 22 was incredibly intense and competitive. After all the smoke had cleared, we ended up with exactly what we wanted: three lots from batches six and ten. Last year, Ken Davids from Coffee Review gave our roast of Esmeralda Especial a record high 97. We hope that this year's lot will be even better. Learn more about the origins of the rare award-winning La Esmeralda Coffee. Origin: Finca Esmeralda, Boquete growing district, western Panama Who should drink it: Those willing to pay a very high price for an extraordinary coffee that almost uniquely combines classic Latin-American balance with the shimmering fruit and floral complexity of Ethiopia. A coffee both breathtakingly pure and intriguingly complex. Intense, high-toned aroma, complex but tightly knit: lemon, dry berry, flowers (tea rose?), milk chocolate. The acidity is powerful but roundly balanced, the body surprisingly full, the flavor explosive: rose water, sweet pipe tobacco, chocolate, all enveloped in a lemony richness. Lemon and chocolate notes carry into the finish, where they soften and enliven a slight astringency. Also described: Sweet-toned aroma dominated by a distinct honey character. In the cup syrupy mouth feel, giddily and complexly lush with cherryish fruit, floral, and dry, brandyish chocolate notes. The finish is deep, honeyish sweet, and long. Background La Esmeralda Especial (Panama Gesha) is by far the best coffee ever produced. It has taking the highest records ever in coffee auction history. This coffee has an extraordinary character: jasmine-like aroma, unbelievable acidity; it has citrus and honey flavor and light body unlike anything else that you could imagine in a coffee. Gesha has Ethiopian heritage, it was first brought to Panama from Costa Rica in 1963 by Don Pachi (Pachi Serracin). It was a very low yielding quantity coffee, so it was never used for planting farms. About 2 years ago Daniel Peterson re-discovered the coffee within his farm. Panama is the only country in the world that produces Gesha Coffee and quantities are very limited. There are only two farms that produce Panama Gesha: "Esmeralda Special" and "Don Pachi Estate". Esmeralda Special has won several competitions: Ranked # 1 Long Beach Cupping Pavilion 2007 Ranked # 1 Rainforest Alliance Cupping 2007 Ranked # 1 Charlotte Cupping Pavilion 2006 Ranked # 1 Rainforest Alliance Cupping 2006 Ranked # 1 Seattle Cupping Pavilion 2005 Ranked # 1 Rainforest Alliance Cupping 2004 Most Expensives Coffees in Forbes.com Characteristics Aroma: 9 Acidity: 8 Body: 9.00, Syrupy Mouthfeel Flavor: 9.00, Fruit and Floral Aftertaste: 9.00, Deep Honey Process: Wet Sweetness: 9.00, Honey Total score from cupping lab: 97 Notes: Coffee from trees of the botanical variety "Gesha" or "Geisha" grown on farmer Price Peterson's Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama has for the last several years consistently broken records paid for a green coffee: A 2007 lot sold at auction this for an extraordinary $130 per pound. This lot of Gesha is from the same fields, crop and variety as the record-breaking auction lot but was sold outside auction. With its bold, boat-shaped beans and distinctive floral and chocolate cup, the Esmeralda Panama Gesha continues to be one of the world's most unique coffees. Assessment: Sweet-toned aroma dominated by a distinct honey character. In the cup syrupy mouthfeel, giddily and complexly lush with cherryish fruit, floral, and dry, brandyish chocolate notes. The finish is deep, honeyish sweet, and long. Extraordinary character, jasmine-like aroma, unbelievable acidity; it has citrus and honey flavor. Blind Assessment: Distinctive aromatics: sweetly dry fruit notes that suggest black current, blackberry, tart cherry, cedary orange. Lightly syrupy mouthfeel, fine balance. Long, deep finish that stays on the rich side of astringent. Who should drink it: A coffee both breathtakingly pure and intriguingly complex. * We recommend this coffee in whole bean BEST PRICE AROUND! For a limited time only just $34.95 |
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