Sofia Manor background its most expensive super summer boutique coffee beans taste and flavor characteristics

BOP in Panama is an Oscar for raw coffee beans, and winning the first place in BOP will make the estate worth a hundred times as much. And there is such a manor, which just started in 2008, sharpening a sword every ten years, participating in the best Panama (BOP) competition for the first time in 2017, directly won the first place in the geisha (rose summer coffee variety) washing group champion! After a few years, he participated in the competition again in 2020, and once again won the champion of the washing group and the outstanding performance of the runner-up of the tanning group! It is the Sofia Manor that will be introduced in front of the street today.

In 2008, Willem Boot bought an extremely high-altitude estate from Ricardo Koyner, the owner of Catova, and named it Finca Sophia, the town of Volcan in Panama.

William Bout, also a senior coffee expert, was honored to be a judge of Panama's BOP in 2004. He tasted the rosy summer coffee beans submitted by the Emerald Manor for the competition and has been in love with Rosa ever since. Later, by chance and coincidence in 2005, he bought the mule manor to grow rose summer, and later went to the Cafa region of Ethiopia to find it, and helped the accompanying documentary filmmaker set up a rose summer village estate in Banguimachi. In 2008, he had a bold idea, that is, to grow the best rosy summer.

Sofia Manor, at an altitude of 1900-2150 meters, is one of the highest coffee farms in Central America. From the day Sofia Manor was founded, William and his partners have been trying to explore the boundaries of the highest elevations where the world's top coffee is grown. At first they planted 15000 rose summer coffee seedlings at the top of the manor, and soon they encountered their first setback. in the third year, the rose trees were frozen to death because of the high altitude. So in 2012, they planted another 15000 rose summer coffee seedlings between 1900 and 2000 meters above sea level, which could not blossom and bear fruit in five years as usual because of the high altitude. The rosy summer coffee here takes a longer growing period and takes 7-10 years to mass produce. That's why Sofia Manor brought the low-yielding Rosa coffee to BOP in 2017, and won the first place.

Named after Sophia, the goddess of wisdom in ancient Greek mythology, the Logo design comes from a kind of highland pigeon (called Torcaza in Spanish) that lives in the manor. The estate is jointly owned by William and his American partner, Equator Coffee Roasters, and is day-to-day managed by Kelly Hartmann, the youngest son of Hartman, a local coffee family in Panama.

At present, the manor is divided into four regions, of which the main production is in the third and fourth areas, while the first and second areas with higher elevations take longer to adapt. The picking time of Sofia Manor is different from that of other parts of Panama, where coffee picking season is usually concentrated in August-December, while Sofia Manor is harvested in February-June next year because of its high altitude and slow coffee ripening.

Sophia Manor is a small manor, the annual output is not high, about 300 to 400 kilograms. Now at the Qianjie store, you can drink roses from the 2022 season. This rose summer uses exquisite sun treatment, according to the idea of the manor owner William, he believes that the Panamanian rose summer does not need to adopt gaudy treatment, as long as simple sun, washing treatment can reflect the original flavor of the rose summer. It is William's idea that enables us to taste the high-quality rosy summer coffee at high altitude in Panama.

In order to retain the charming flower and fruit aroma of Rosa coffee beans, Qianjie coffee is lightly roasted. Through cup test and comparison, this sun-treated coffee bean from Sofia Manor shows the dry aroma of melon and rose after grinding, and shows high sweetness and flavor of orange, melon, apple juice, rose and oolong tea after sucking.

Because this Sofia rose summer coffee bean is grown at high altitude, the density of the coffee bean itself is high, and shallow roasting does not change its density too much. Therefore, medium and fine grinding (78% screening rate of Chinese No. 20 standard screen) and higher water temperature can be used for extraction and cooking.

The parameters of Qianjie coffee hand punching are recommended:

Filter cup: V60 filter cup

Powder content: 15g

Ratio of powder to water: 1:15

Degree of grinding: the screening rate of China 20 standard screen is 78%.

Water temperature: 90-91 degrees Celsius

With three-stage circular water injection technique: first, the powder layer is fully wetted in the shape of "hamburger" and steamed for 30s with 30g water, and then boiled in the second stage; in the front street of the second stage, the smooth medium-fine water is injected round to 125g and then stop. when the water level drops to 2 / 3 of the powder layer, it is injected into the third stage; the third stage continues to use medium-fine water to inject to 225g and end the water injection, with a total extraction time of 225g ".

Front Street Coffee Sofia Manor Sun Rose Summer Coffee Flavor: the entrance is as sour and sweet as orange and the aroma of melon and roses, with apple juice-like freshness in the middle and oolong tea-like sweetness in the aftertaste.

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