Hacienda la Esmeralda [Buenos Aires 3BANC]

69,90 €

Panama

Note de dégustation :Ananas - Jasmin séché - Mangue - Goyave - Rhum épicé

Référence incontournable du café de spécialité, Hacienda La Esmeralda signe ici un lot remarquable, porté par une explosion aromatique tropicale.

Récolté à pleine maturité, ce café a bénéficié d’une fermentation anaérobie naturelle parfaitement contrôlée : pré-séchage de 3 jours sur lits surélevés, 5 jours de fermentation en cuve inox dans une salle réfrigérée, puis 35 jours de séchage lent en environnement climatisé.

Dès les premières gorgées, des notes éclatantes d’ananas et de mangue s’imposent, suivies par la douceur florale du jasmin séché. La dégustation se prolonge avec une goyave juteuse, avant de s’achever sur une finale chaleureuse et subtilement rhum épicé, apportant profondeur et élégance.

Un café lumineux, complexe et tropical, conçu pour une dégustation inoubliable.

Producer	Peterson Family, Hacienda la Esmeralda
Variety	Geisha
Process	Natural Anaerobic
Score	92
Roast	filter

TASTING NOTES

Ananas - Jasmin séché - Mangue - Goyave - Rhum épicé

AcidityMedium

SilkyBody

RoastLight

Harvest2025

Hacienda la Esmeralda

Hacienda La Esmeralda is an iconic farm located in the mountains of Boquete, Panama.

Operated by the Peterson family, it is globally renowned for having unveiled the exceptional potential of Geisha, becoming an indispensable benchmark in the world of specialty coffee. Thanks to high altitudes, unique microclimates, and meticulous expertise, La Esmeralda produces lots of unparalleled purity and aromatic complexity. It is here that modern Geisha was born, a legendary coffee cultivated with precision and passion.

More specifically, in 2004, Hacienda La Esmeralda presented a 100% Geisha coffee for the first time in the Best of Panama competition. This high-altitude lot captivated judges with its floral aromas and vibrancy, closely resembling the profiles of Ethiopian coffees. The farm won the Best of Panama 2004 title, setting an auction price record.

The success did not stop there. In the 2025 edition of Best of Panama, Hacienda La Esmeralda won all three main categories (Geisha Washed, Geisha Natural, Varietals) with historic scores:
98.00 points for Washed Geisha (highest score ever awarded)
97.00 points for Natural Geisha
They also received the Panama Cup, awarded to the best producer of the year.

JARAMILLO

The Buenos Aires plot is located on the Jaramillo farm at an altitude of 1,700m.

The air in the Jaramillo mountains is humid and cool — ideal conditions for the Geisha variety to fully express its aromatic richness. Although Geisha coffee trees had been sporadically planted in the region, it was an isolated lot from a small area of this farm that led to the rediscovery of this variety.

The farm extends from rolling hills at lower elevations to steep slopes reaching 40 degrees, making harvesting entirely manual and particularly demanding. While the initial coffee plantations were located at lower altitudes, featuring up to 15 different sub-varieties from Costa Rica and Brazil, it was in 1997 that the Peterson family decided to plant higher up.

It is at these high altitudes that Geisha reveals its full floral and luminous vibrancy. With cool temperatures and the generous shade of majestic old trees, Jaramillo offers a perfect environment for this variety. Even today, many of the most remarkable Geisha microlots originate from small plots nestled on the slopes of Jaramillo.