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)

These beans are quite acid actually, allowing deep and dark roast.

The nose is oily, earthy and dark with feeling of bonfire.

The taste is somewhat deep and dark. Roasting these beans bring lot of oil to the surface of the bean and that is actually 100% transformed into very intensive and rich taste. I would call this even winey. I think Mocha Matari will definitely make everyone to love or hate it. Its not groundpleaser or mainstream.

Until Kaffa roastery made me change my mind. You can also enjoy dark roasted Monsooned Malabar, however you will lose the ultimate roundness.

What compensates that is slowly baked butter popcorn like taste. I’m not sure if this is possible to achieve with typical filter machine, but using syphon with almost espresso-fine grind the taste is somewhat peculiar.

If you are into super super dark roasts you better try this. But consider buying a sample from Kaffa before trying it yourself. I’m quite sure you have to roast this with enough time and very low temperature ( ie. 205C )