Introduction to Kotowa Coffee of Millennium Rainforest in Panamanian Coffee region Boquete

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Panamanian coffee-producing region Boquete Millennium Rainforest Kotowa Coffee Introduction

Panama is located in Central America, with Costa Rica on the left and Colombia on the right. Although it is a small country connecting North and South America, it has an important strategic position. Its Panama Canal, which runs through the North Atlantic Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean, once caused fierce competition between the United States and France. Today, Geisha coffee produced in Panama is a must-win bean for merchants, from US $92.3 per pound in 2011 to US $107.86 per pound in 2014. This year's public auction price hit a new high, with raw beans plunging to $140 a pound.

Panama's most famous coffee-producing areas, Boquete and Volcán, are located in the highlands of Chiriqui Province in the west, near the Costa Rican border. In search of the best coffee, I went to live in both regions for a week and visited several coffee plantations. Panama is one of the most advanced coffee producing areas I have been to, except for the United States. The price is also one of the higher ones. Many famous estates can be driven directly by RV. I took the night bus from Panama City, a seven-hour drive to David in daylight, and then took a taxi to Boquet.

Millennium Rainforest Kotowa Coffee

Kotowa Coffee family has 5 manors, each of which has great microclimate changes. Guixia Manor is located in the original tropical rain forest reserve with an altitude of more than 1,600 meters. Coffee trees and towering rainforest trees are complete. The climate is cool. Clear river water flows through the garden and shuttles through the coffee garden. The fog always transpires, just like a fairyland. The environment is very beautiful. Kotowa is one of the oldest coffee plantations in the area, a family farm founded by Canadians in 1918 and now run by third-generation grandson Ricardo Koyner. I was lucky enough to pick red rose cherries and visit his grandfather's century-old wood coffee peeling machine. Kotowa is also a birdwatcher's paradise…For safety and environmental sustainability, the farm does not use any chemical pesticides or herbicides, thus attracting some rare birds to live here.

Volcano Secret Janson Rose Summer Dried Fruit Tea

Driving around Volcán Baru and heading west for about 1.5 hours, I came to Janson Coffee Farm, which came in second place in the Best of Panama 2013 coffee contest. The contest was started in 1997 by the Panamanian Fine Coffee Association (SCAP), two years before the first COE! Swiss Carl Janson loved the beautiful environment of the mountains and nearby valleys, so he bought a large area of land to start a farm, raising cattle, fish and horses, and planting coffee in large quantities. Now the estate is handed over to his descendants.

Carl's grandson Leif Janson took me on a four-wheel drive to tour his coffee garden. I noticed that Volcán, on the other side of the volcano, had a distinctly different microclimate than Boquet, where there was more sunlight. The rich volcanic soil and microclimate here make the small variety of Rosedale coffee thrive. Coupled with the natural spring water washing and treatment of coffee, the fruit and flower flavor that tempts the taste buds is very special! Janson also uses a special method to remove the skin and pulp of coffee cherries and then dry them in the sun to become dried fruit tea. After soaking in hot water, the sweetness originally in the pulp is completely released, sour and sweet, with a unique rose flower fragrance, rose flower and cherry fruit fragrance, this pink fruit tea, make people fall in love with it!