Colombia Finca Monteblanco Geisha

Available starting August 20th!

This fully washed Geisha is also from Finca Monteblanco and features delicate floral hints of honey, lime, lemon, jasmine, and black tea complemented by a vibrant tangerine acidity and a smooth, sweet vanilla finish. Rodrigo chose Geisha for this lot due to its outstanding cup quality, meticulously preserved throughout the entire process, from harvest to final production. Also known as Gesha, this coffee variety yields an even better cup quality when grown at high altitudes, and originates from Ethiopian landrace coffees in Ethiopian forests discovered in the 1930s (the name supposedly derives from Ethiopia’s Gori Gesha forest). There is some confusion with several genetically distinct varieties that have all been called Geisha, but the most famous variety is the Panama one which was brought to Lyamungu research station in Tanzania, then to Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza in Central America in 1953 from where it was distributed across Panama in the 1960s for its Coffee Leaf Rust resistance. But its brittle branches meant it was not widely planted. Panama Geisha reached its modern fame in 2005 when a Geisha lot won the “Best of Panama” competition. Today, Geisha is known for its delicate florals, jasmine and stone fruit.