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Are you a light roast new wave coffee fan? Or a lover of Gesha, or overly floral fruity coffees? Than this sampler is for you. Expensive, but one of a kind coffees that are a tasty treat for any new wave coffee fan. All very small lot production from award winning farms, this is the best of the best for the Panama offerings.
A half pound each of:
Panama Premium Boquete – Damarli Estate – Noble Geisha “Imperial”
A great light roast bean with some strong and bright fruit forward tones balanced with a bit of spice and stellar aromatics. Its always a bit harder to pick out those traditional Geisha tones with the natural processing but if you stick lighter, you definitely get them in the aromatics, some great almost jasmine like Ethiopian aromatics with this cup. Clean as a whistle with very noticeable lemony/floral acidity accompanied with some lovely red fruit tones. Sweet, delicate and well defined at the lighter roasts. A slight warning though, a fruit forward cup with higher acidity, lighter roasted, is not for everyone.
Panama Premium Boquete – Mama Cata Estate – Geisha Washed “Toña”
This cup stands out even among a table full of the worlds best coffees. Lighter roasts are where this cup is best served, good clean acidity, very sweet and floral, a bit of jasmine especially in the aromatics with clearly noticeable and very clean stone fruit tones balanced with a bit of tea like spice. Really an amazing soft and refined fruit tone for a washed processed coffee. Wonderful how the cup breaks what most think of washed processed coffees. With those Geisha floral and spice notes popping right out even at light roast points, a cup you Geisha fans will not want to miss. If you are used to washed processed Geisha, keep in mind this coffee tastes almost like a super clean rich honey processed coffee, it is not dark toned and loaded with some bergamot like many washed Geishas.
Panama Premium Boquete – Finca La Alqueria – Pacamara Washed Processed
A crisp, bright, very clean and balanced cup. This is an awesome example of washed processed Panama coffee. A hefty cup full of floral, citric and sweet tones, malty, nutty and chocolate like tones to contrast. Soft fruit tones can be found somewhere between the two but not like a natural, delicate and more citric/peachy. Lighter roasts push the tones towards the more acidic side but these beans are clean enough to handle the lighter roasting. The most jazzy roast point but may come off a little too acidic for some. Medium roasts are the best starting point for medium-low acidity fans, it balances the cup out nicely with traditional darker tones. A wonderful mix of floral and malty/chocolaty without being too sour upfront.
Panama Premium Boquete – Don Benji Estate – Orange Bourbon – Washed Processed
Panama Premium Boquete – La Milagrosa – Geisha Natural Processed
Best at a light roast, almost a shame to take any darker. Very clean and balanced, even if you traditionally do not like light roasts, this one might impress. An amazing Geisha Natural, the tastes of these beans hit the nail on the head for what a stellar Geisha should taste like. Jasmine like aromatics, sweet overly floral tones with a hint of citric balancing with a little soft fruit and black tea like spice. Great depth of flavor, one can see why Geisha coffees are often all the top coffees in the competitions with a cup like this.
Panama Premium Boquete – Mama Cata Estate – Pacamara ASD Natural Cedros
A wonderful micro-lot best at the light to medium roast points. This is the wild natural processed out of the Panama lineup: bright lemony acidity, lots of sweetness with strong fruit tones ranging from grape skin to traditional red fruit. Dominated by the floral, citric and fruit at lighter roast points, there is a cool malty/boozy/oaky darker tone you can get them to balance with by pushing the roast into the medium roast range. Bright, super fruity, sweet with great depth of flavors and clean as a whistle.
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