Panama

Special Guests’ 2nd Birthday, Hacienda La Esmeralda Trapiche 7FB and 4ANC, Panama

jasmine · orange blossom · marmalade · strawberry · peach · lemon · tea

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How it sits among coffee from Panama

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Panama: 51 of 84 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Special Guests describe this coffee as fruity, citrus, floral, tea-like. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Panama; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

tea-like is unusual here — 20% of coffee from Panama are described that way.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Panama coffees

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Panama

Farm or estate

Cañas Verdes

Process

washed, anaerobic

Variety

Gesha

Altitude

1600 m

Not stated

region, producer, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, lowest

“Altitude: 1600masl For our 2nd birthday at Aybrook Street, we wanted to celebrate with something special: two exceptional geishas from one of the most famous farms in the world, Hacienda La Esmeralda.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Variety: Geisha Process: Washed 7FB/Natural 4ANC Altitude: 1600masl For our 2nd birthday at Aybrook Street, we wanted to celebrate with something special: two exceptional geishas from one of the most famous farms in the world, Hacienda La Esmeralda.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Decaffeination method

“The name comes from the trapiche, a mill traditionally used to process sugar cane into panela (known locally as rapadura) — a nod to Cañas Verdes' history as a sugarcane-growing region.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Farm

“Both come from their Cañas Verdes farm, from the Trapiche lot.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“In the cup, we found flavour notes of lemon ice tea, jasmine and orange blossom for the washed lot, and peach, marmalade and strawberry for the natural lot.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“Country of Origin: Panama Variety: Geisha Process: Washed 7FB/Natural 4ANC Altitude: 1600masl For our 2nd birthday at Aybrook Street, we wanted to celebrate with something special: two exceptional geishas from one of the most famous farms in the world, Hacienda La Esmeralda.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Process: Washed 7FB/Natural 4ANC Altitude: 1600masl For our 2nd birthday at Aybrook Street, we wanted to celebrate with something special: two exceptional geishas from one of the most famous farms in the world, Hacienda La Esmeralda.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.