GEISHA
GEISHA
Experience the exquisite journey of jasmine, peach, and mandarin, with a lingering tea-like aftertaste.
Variety : Geisha
Process : The cherries are hand collected in the optimum maturation point and then hand-selected. Then apply a double phase process where the whole cherries are fermented for 120 hours in closed tank. After that the cherries are pulped and " dry fermented" for 72 hours before being fully hand-washed with mountain spring water. Once the coffee has been fully washed, it's dried on raised beds for 15 days.
The farm and producer :
ABU COFFEE is a Geisha varietal cultivated in HACIENDA CAÑAS VERDES located the region of Cañas Verdes, Boquete, in a humid and rainy microclimate typical of the tropical forest. Coffee trees are grown on the slopes of the Volcán Barú National Park, which are fertile, well-drained, volcanic origin, and deep soils enriched with organic content
ABU COFFEE was named to honor the memory of their father, José Guillermo Luttrell Tedman, the third generation of coffee producers, and to continue his dream of achieving what he considered the best-balanced coffee cup; a Geisha raised with the highest standards of quality. That is why "ABU" (short for ABUELO, GRANDFATHER IN SPANISH), as his grandchildren used to call him, represents the legacy of this visionary and passionate lover of Boquete and specialty coffee that we want to preserve for the generations to come.
José Luttrell is the founder of Abu Coffee. He was already successful as an engineer, usually in the city and traveling overseas for work, when his father took him to revisit their family's farmlands in Boquete. This sparked his interest in specialty coffee which, in time, grew into a passion.
Abu Coffee started to become known when they won 6th place in the Geisha Washed category at the 2017 Best of Panama Competition. Their Geishas have been winning yearly at the BoP from then on. In 2021, Catuai lots they produced were also awarded in the Varietal Natural and Varietal Washed categories.
