Description
El Salto • Bajo Boquete — Panama
Geisha Washed — Purple Tip
Region El Salto, Bajo Boquete • Process Washed • Variety Geisha (Purple Tip) • Altitude 1,500+ m
RECOMMENDED ROAST: Light–Medium (lean light)
QUALITIES: clean • sweet • silky
CHAFF LEVEL: Low
Although these are not competition winning lots, they are still considered some of the best, awesome large screen top lots. This year three of our friends had winning lots this year in the Best of Panama competition, and the cheapest award winning lot went for over $300/lb! Garrido had a winning Geisha lot, that went for $2400/lb! The number one Geisha set a new world record at slightly over $13000/lb. Brings some value to the “sister lots” that we source from them.
Geisha is an Ethiopian strain of coffee, brought to Central America over the last 15-20 years. A unique tasting, very hard to grow strain. Although it adopts some attributes from the country it is grown, a good example will always have overly sweet floral versus a darker tea like spice note, along with more jasmine like aromatics.
Flavor Profile
Floral, Caramel, Nut, Malt/Chocolate
A clean, sweet, silky cup. In light roasts, expect a gentle floral and delicate fruit; moving into medium brings
out caramel, malt and nut with low acidity and a very clean finish. At darker roasts the body rises with
chocolate tones and a light smoky/roasty edge.
rOASTING notes
Easy Roast, Nice Scream, Low Chaff
Roasting Notes: An easy coffee to roast, very nice screen of beans with medium to low chaff. Beans darken up quickly so make sure to keep an eye out for the crack. Normal to see a little splotchy color on the end product. Ideally this bean is going to be for light roast fans, tastes good at almost any roast, but medium to dark will mute up much of what makes these beans so special. This was our favorite Panama 24 hours after roasting, after 4 days, it started to lose some of its fruitiness upfront. So a shorter setup time was preferred in house, will gain some depth of flavor and smoothness with a longer setup time.
TASTING NOTES – ROASTING NOTES
Light Roast
Medium body – Subtle florals – Sweet nutty – Clean, silky finish
Medium Roast
Balanced – Caramel – Malty/Nutty – Low acidity – Very smooth
Dark Roast
Fuller body – Malty chocolate – Low acidity – Smoky/roasty notes – Clean aftertaste
ORIGIN: El Salto – Bajo Boquete (Boquete, Panama)
El Salto Premium Coffee — Finca Camiseta
The Suarez Family’s Coffee Tradition in the region of Boquete began in 1900 with the arrival from Belen, middle east, of our grandfather Abdeliat Suadi, baptized by the locals with the name of Domingo Suarez. He married Antonia Serrano and together had six children who continued with the business that started by sowing 70 thousand plants of coffee. Years later his youngest son, our father, Vidal Suarez, man of great vision and hardworker, continued the business independently. Next to our mother Eira Gutierrez de Suarez, they started in 1948 a new generation of coffee growers in the area of Salto, Boquete. They pass on and inherited the love they had for the earth and the cultivation of coffee to their six children. Today, the companies diversify and two of these children: Carlos and Laura Suarez formed the companies Vicala Trading Corp. and Vicala Export Inc. under the brand “El Salto Premium Coffee”, dedicated to continue our family tradition, with its already international well known “Camiseta Estate”, and two new brands “Los Limones”, and “Doña Eira Estate” develop to give our customers the best cup quality and to make sure that every sip of coffee is a delight to the palate.
This washed coffee comes from Camiseta Estate, one of three farms owned by Laura E. Suárez, including Dona Eira Estate, Los Limones Estate. The varieties Typica, Catuai, Catuai Amarillo and Geisha are mainly grown here. The farms are located in El Salto, a municipality in Bajo Boquete, at altitude above 1,500 meters. The Catuaí variety is predominantly grown at Camiseta and the coffee has a particularly beautiful citric acidity.
This microlot is Geisha Washed — Purple Tip. Cherries are hand‑picked at peak ripeness, carefully depulped and washed, then sun‑dried to a stable moisture. While Catuaí on parts of the farm often shows a citrusy brightness, this washed Geisha emphasizes a notably clean profile with high sweetness and a moderate‑to‑low acidity for the variety.
Seasonality — Harvest
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
Primary high‑altitude harvest window: April – Sep (Boquete — El Salto)
Tasting Notes: Best at light roast points. Very sweet, clean, delicate and floral coffee. Hints of sweet citric and soft fruit comingle with a very floral cup profile, pulls a little balance with a darker chocolate/malty/tea-like undertone. In our mind, Geisha coffee is all about the overly sweet cups and floral aromatics, these beans nail it. Hints of a tea like undertone can be found especially if you push the roast into the medium/dark category.
Roasting Notes: An easy coffee to roast, very nice screen of beans with medium to low chaff. Beans darken up quickly so make sure to keep an eye out for the crack. Normal to see a little splotchy color on the end product. Ideally this bean is going to be for light roast fans, tastes good at almost any roast, but medium to dark will mute up much of what makes these beans so special. This was our favorite Panama 24 hours after roasting, after 4 days, it started to lose some of its fruitiness upfront. So a shorter setup time was preferred in house, will gain some depth of flavor and smoothness with a longer setup time.
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