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Limoncillo 09/10 revisited

Mikko — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:39:02 +0000

After all the hype I decided to get more beans from Nicaragua. As i did earlier, i chose to purchase from Limoncillo estate. The estate itself is still very famous and run by former gynecologist.

Dr. Erwin Mierich’s bourbons 09/10 are really a-state-of-mind.

After short tasting my friends were wondering why espresso even exists if you can enjoy whole lot of bold-and-strong good-mood coffee without all the hassle.

Nose: deep dark chocolate and even deeper chocolate.

Taste: bold, strong, well balanced. Surprisingly some floral feeling comes after couple of seconds and stays for many minutes.

Roast: definitely dark. I did 15 seconds after second crack and really quick cooling.

Malawi Viphya geisha

Mikko — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:25:20 +0000

Geisha is one of the varietals hard to find for sale separately. Its Pinot noir of coffees, hard to grow, hard to roast and when done properly: absolutely the number one.

This one comes from Malawi, its grown between 1400-1500 metres from the sea level, the community is 100% co-operative. Because of the acid character of this varietal, geisha can be roaster quite dark. However its easy to ruin all microstructures in after taste by roasting it too much.

nose: wide-floral vista, honey, hint of peach and when cooling down – little bit of lemon and lime.

taste: overall pure holyness, bright and microstructural bourgogne-like pencil and light chocolate.

I would roast this to City / City+

Geisha is something that will probably change your mind.

Panamanian coffee breaks auction records

Mikko — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:37:53 +0000

Geisha Coffee ‘Esmeralda Special’ surpassed his own record and established a sales global record of 170.20 dollars.

The “Esmeralda Special” Geisha variety re-heat the coffee market yesterday by breaking the world sales record quoting a price of 170.20 dollars per pound (US$ 375/KG), during the online auction “Best of Panama 2010.”
Japanese Coffee House Saza purchased eight bags of 50 pounds of coffee worth US$ 68,080. Panamanian Geisha Coffee has win for six consecutive years the first place of the auction. The coffee is harvested and processed at La Esmeralda Estate, located in Boquete, Chiriqui.
“Achieving a world record price make us very proud, because this victory brings to Panama on the map of the best coffees in the world,” said Rachel Peterson, owner of La Esmeralda Estate.

Geisha Coffee is doing pretty good job raising Panama’s fame in coffee business, if you have tasted Geisha’s brew, drop me an e-mail. (mikko at darkroast.org)