The Road of Panamanian Coffee and the characteristics of its Baking area

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The road to boutique coffee belonging to Panama

As the torrent of time comes to modern times, people begin to know how to define and understand the different flavors on the taste buds on the tip of the tongue-understanding the beauty of the original taste, the flavor characteristics created by the microclimate, the depth of baking, and so on. at the same time, there are also more manors with professional knowledge and technology. For Panama, the changes brought about by the impact of the boutique Kuroshio are an important process to bring Panamanian coffee into line with the world step by step.

With the establishment and development of the Panamanian Fine Coffee Association, many manors and producing areas, which are already too small, have become high-quality coffee producing countries specializing in the boutique market. Under the influence of the annual auction of "Best Panama", Panama has become the spokesman of boutique coffee and the most geisha!

Panama is located in Central America, Costa Rica on the left and Colombia on the right. Although Panama is a small country connecting North and South America, it has an important strategic position. Its Panama Canal, which runs through the North Atlantic and South Pacific, once caused fierce competition between the United States and France. Today, Geisha coffee produced in Panama is a must for businesses.

Panama's most famous coffee producing areas, Boquete and Volc á n, are located in the highlands of Chiriqui province in the west, near the Costa Rican border. In order to find the best coffee, I went to live in these two producing areas for a week and visited several coffee farms. Apart from the United States, Panama is the most advanced coffee producing area I have ever visited, the price is also high, and many famous estates can be reached directly by RV.

Millennium rainforest Kotowa Coffee

The Kotowa Coffee family has five manors, each of which has a great change in microclimate. Rose Summer Manor is located in a pristine rainforest reserve above 1600 meters above sea level, with coffee trees and towering rainforest ancient trees, cool climate, clear river water flowing through the garden, shuttling through the coffee garden, always foggy, like a fairyland, and the environment is very beautiful. Kotowa is one of the oldest coffee plantations in the district. It was founded by Canadians in 1918 and is now run by the third generation of grandson Ricardo Koyner. Besides picking the red rose summer cherries, I also visited the century-old wooden coffee peeling processor left by his grandfather. Besides coffee, Kotowa is also a paradise for birdwatchers. For the sake of safety and environmental sustainability, farms do not use any chemical pesticides or herbicides, thus attracting some rare birds to inhabit here.

Volcanic Secret Janson Rose Summer dried Fruit Tea

After driving around Volc á n Baru for about 1.5 hours, I came to Janson Coffee Farm, the second place in the Best of Panama 2013 Best Coffee Bean Competition. The competition was held by the Panamanian Fine Coffee Association (SCAP) in 1997, two years earlier than the first COE! Because the Swiss Carl Janson fell in love with the beautiful environment in the volcanic areas and nearby valleys, he bought a large area of land to open a farm. Besides raising cattle, fish and horses, he also planted a lot of coffee. Now the estate is taken care of by his children and grandchildren.

Carl's grandson, Leif Janson, took me on a four-wheel drive to visit his coffee garden. I found that the microclimate of Volc á n on the other side of the volcano is obviously different from that of Poquette, where there is plenty of sunshine. The rich volcanic soil and microclimate here make the small varieties of Rosa coffee thrive, coupled with the natural spring water washed coffee, the kind of seductive taste buds of fruit and flowers, very special! Janson also uses a special method to remove the skin and flesh of coffee cherries and then dry them in the sun to make dried fruit tea. After soaking in hot water, the sweetness originally in the flesh is completely released, sour and sweet, with unique aromas of rose summer flowers, Luoshen flowers and cherry fruits. This cup of pink fruit tea makes people fall in love as soon as they drink!

The Emerald Manor of Panama (La Esmeralda) is located in the corner of the Baru volcano, so the coffee beans produced in this area are mostly named after Baru Mountain, and the area around Boquete is scenic. There are many leisure hotels, villa, resort estates, and even along the important river Rio Caldera. La Esmeralda is located on the right side of the river in Jaramillo, and then grows coffee in the higher elevation area of Ca?as Verdes on the left side of the river, thanks to Rudolph Peterson's decision to buy the industry.

La Esmeralda Manor has won 12 coffee competitions so far, and the highest bidding record for three times in online open bidding is US $21 in 2004, US $50.25 in 2006 and US $130 in 2007. Of course, other countries have also raced a pound of good coffee close to $50 (Brazil's CoE champion Fazenda Santa inflows in 2005) and Guatemala CoE champion El Injerto $80.20 in 2008, but you pay attention to the time point, that is, when La Esmeralda set a record price, there was no bid to surpass her before, but she will surpass others and say she is a record creator, no fluke!

Suggested baking method: medium baking

★★: good

The market for Panamanian coffee:

The first batch of coffee exported by Panama each year starts in November, and almost all high-quality coffee beans are shipped to France and Finland.

Panama coffee is smooth, light and sour, and its excellent thousand-week coffee beans are pure and distinctive.

Flavor: full granules and good quality

Generally speaking, the price of Panamanian coffee belongs to the low and medium price, but its performance in the cup is often as good as that of any famous or even expensive coffee producing area. Panamanian specialty coffee is among the highest selling prices in the international market.

The BOQUETE region of Panama, located in the province of CHIRIQUI on the border with Costa Rica, is home to Panama's famous GEISHA coffee and is famous for producing high-quality Arabica coffee. The Tedman & McIntyre (TEDMAN&MACINTYRE ESTATE) estate, located in the mountain area of Poggett 4000 feet above sea level, comes from the two earliest coffee families in Panama, the Tedman family and the McIntyre family. In 1925, Canadian fruit merchant Alexander McIntyre (ALEXANDER DUNCAN MACINTYRE), infected by his brother Joseph, came to Poggett to settle down, married ANGELA ROSAS in the same year, bought an estate named "LA CAROLINA" and began to grow coffee. Their descendants still own the estate and become one of the most famous local coffee estates. Panama Coffee is grown in the western part of the country, near Costa Rica and the Pacific Ocean. The Boquet district of Chiriqui province is the most famous for its coffee, and Vocan,Santa Clara is also famous. Other areas include David, Remacimeinto, Bugaba and Tole. Only coffee grown at elevations between 1300 and 1500 meters above sea level is considered special coffee.

There are three ways of plantation: sunshine plantation, full shade plantation and semi-shade plantation. Plantations with more than 50 plants per hectare are fully shaded plantations, 25-50 plants are semi-shaded plantations, and less than 25 plants are called sunshine plantations. What is the effect of shading and shading on coffee in the plantations of the two neighbors with the same planting conditions? Shading plantations can slow down the ripening time of coffee fruits, so there are more flavor substances in coffee cherries, so shading itself increases the cost and reduces production, and its coffee flavor is higher than that of semi-shaded plantations under the same planting conditions. now most plantations in Colombia are associated with coffee trees and bananas because Arabica trees are becoming more and more dwarfed. Therefore, when the banana tree rises, it plays a shading role [flavor description]: oolong tea, peach, honey, fresh and comfortable, bright and balanced, the aroma is extremely layered, the whole aroma and caramel sweetness are wrapped together, when the entrance, the tip of the tongue feels sour, mild and round in the mouth, fruit sweet and sweet strong, like swallowing a mouthful of fresh fruit tea, sweet heart. The lower the temperature, the finer the acidity. Charm is also quite long-lasting, let people feel good satisfaction!

Coffee History of Panama

The history of Panamanian coffee began in 1780 when Europeans first brought the first Typica trees to Panama. For Panamanians at that time, such drinks were both novel and mysterious, which not only quickly conquered people's senses, but also led to the widespread planting of coffee trees by local people. Riding on the third wave of coffee aesthetic trend, after gradually knowing how to taste a single taste of beans, the so-called manor boutique coffee began to become a trend.

[note 1:Typica tree species-the oldest native variety of coffee in Ethiopia, with low disease resistance and economic benefits.]

The characteristics of the producing areas of Panama

Panama is the southernmost country in Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea to the east, the Pacific Ocean to the west, Costa Rica to the north and Colombia to the south-it is an important isthmus connecting North and South America. Under the influence of such geographical factors, Panama has a complex and changeable microclimate, which also creates a unique flavor of Panamanian coffee. Panama is roughly divided into four producing areas:

Boquete Boquette producing area is 1450 meters above sea level.

The coffee produced in this area is the region with the highest coffee production and the best quality in Panama.

The Volcan volcano producing area is 2000-3000 meters above sea level

The coffee in this producing area is characterized by a mild and balanced flavor, which has gradually attracted the attention of international experts and coffee lovers.

Santa Clara Santa Clara producing area is 1500 meters above sea level

Due to the irrigation of Chorerra Falls and the adjacent Panama Canal, coffee from all over Panama can be easily transported to all parts of the world.

Piedra de Candela Kendra producing area is 1200 meters above sea level

This producing area is the most promising and has the potential to develop high-quality premium coffee.

The most ─ of geisha in the world Central America? Panama

One of the most prominent highlights in the history of coffee in Panama is ─ Geisha (Geisha, also translated as Rose Summer).

Geisha, once the windbreak tree of the coffee farm, has become the new darling of the world, winning it as early as 2004.

After the champion of the SCAA American boutique coffee association competition, the Geisha coffee bean with unique flower and fruit flavor won the title of Panamanian national treasure. It is not only the focus of the annual "Best Panamanian auction" (Best of Panama Auction), but also the most popular variety whose price has soared fastest in recent years. In 2013, the champion of the Geisha group broke the world record in a global online bid. Marked at a sky-high price of $350.25 per pound, it is as popular as expected.

The distinctive features of Geisha are more intoxicating than the typical flavor of other Panamanian coffee. Under the expectations of the public, it also has a particularly high risk, high mortality, low yield, not easy pruning, but also requires complex and high-cost treatment in order to maintain its most primitive flavor. In the baking degree of Geisha, most people will choose shallow roasting, only remove the grass smell of coffee beans, shorten the baking time, in order to retain the bright sour taste of Geisha. In the Bean Hunter, the author ─ Xu Baolin describes that "if you don't know roses and summer beans all your life, you can call it a glutton in vain." this shows its undisputed position in the coffee circle.