TreesWind Panama Emerald Manor Geisha Coffee Beans

Panama. Emerald Manor Award-winning Great Century Esmeralda Special is a rare prize-winning bean that has set new records three times in online auctions. In June 2004, the price was US$21 per pound. In May 2006, it was US$50.25 per pound. In May 2007, it soared to US$130 per pound. In May 2010, it reached US$170 per pound. Other award-winning records are as follows: • Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) Cupping Championship 1st Place Specialty Coffee Association of America Roasters Guild Cupping Pavilion (2007, 2006, 2005) • SCAA Coffee of the Year 2nd Place 2nd Place Coffee of The Year (2009, 2008) • Best of Panama Champion 1st Place “Best of Panama” (2010, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004) • Rainforest Alliance Coffee Cupping Competition Champion 1st Place Rainforest Alliance Cupping for Quality (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2004) ◆Product Introduction ◎ Country of production: Panama ◎Manor: Esmerlada Estate ◎ Roasting degree of beans: light roasting ◎ Treatment method: Delicate washing Farm owner: Price Peterson introduces Esmeralda Special In 1996, the Peterson family bought a coffee farm in Boquete, Jaramillo. The farm is famous for its suitable coffee growing altitude of 1450~1700 meters and the elegant citrus aroma of its coffee. It is a farm with a long history, and it has many varieties of coffee grown by successive owners. The Peterson family added 60 hectares of planting area, part of which was previously used for dairy farming. It would be more accurate to say that the entire farm was extensively renovated, and many of the newer production areas did not begin harvesting until 2003-2004. Picking Coffee Harvesting coffee beans The quality of coffee is determined by altitude and processing methods. Coffee farmers generally believe that the best state of the beans is when the coffee cherries are harvested when they are ripe. After that, anything the coffee farmers do will reduce the quality of the coffee and there is no way to remedy it. This means that farmers can only harvest the most fully ripe cherries and then do their best to process them in the hope of obtaining the full flavor that nature has given to the fruit. At Emerald Estate, manual harvesters are carefully instructed to pick only fully ripe red fruit and receive extra bonuses. Every night, all the harvested coffee cherries are brought to the processing plant (beneficio), and each harvester's daily output is weighed and checked for defective or unripe beans.