No origin matches that.
Tiny production, and the most expensive coffee in the world.
Panama grows very little coffee and is famous anyway, because of one variety in one place. Geisha — brought from Ethiopia via Costa Rica and long ignored as a low yielder — was entered into a competition by Hacienda La Esmeralda in 2004, scored unlike anything the judges had tasted, and reset the ceiling for what green coffee could sell for.
Almost all of it comes from the highlands around the Barú volcano, in Chiriquí province near the Costa Rican border. The auction lots that make the headlines are a small fraction of even that.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The eastern side of Volcán Barú, and where Geisha made its name.
The drier western slope, with more sun and a shorter harvest.
Washed Geisha is the reference: jasmine and bergamot on the nose, peach and papaya, a tea-like body and an acidity that reads as sweet rather than sharp. The region's Caturra and Catuai are excellent but conventional by comparison — clean, chocolatey and citric.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.