Panamanian Rose Summer BOP entry Information how did the Panamanian Rosa varieties come from? The flavor of Rosa coffee

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The coffee bean species Rose Xia (also known as geisha) is the original species of Arabica. It is very difficult to cultivate and the yield is half that of other coffee beans. Are rare, high-value coffee beans.

1931: a team of botanists visited southwestern Ethiopia and discovered rose beans near the village of Geisha. They brought them to Kenya and planted them in a nursery.

1936: Geisha seeds spread to Uganda and Tanzania.

1953: CATIE, a Costa Rican research institute, obtains some Geisha seeds from Tanzania for research.

1960: Pachi Serracin, the old owner of Don Patch Manor in Panama, brings Rose Summer Geisha to Panama from Costa Rica.

2004: best Panama BOP (Best of Panama auction), Emerald Manor won the first place of the year with its magnificent summer. In the next ten years, as long as you participate in the exhibition, you will get a big prize.

2007: in the international famous bean cup test competition featured by American boutique coffee (SCAA), Rosa won the championship again, and the bidding price was sold at US $130 per pound, the highest price since the competition beans.

2008: Jade Manor opens its own bidding meeting (BOP did not participate in the competition that year).

2012: best Panamanian BOP (Best of Panama auction), divided into traditional group, Geisha group and tanning group, so as not to be stolen by Geisha in all beans during the competition.

2014: best Panama BOP (Best of Panama auction), subdivided into geisha tanning, geisha washing, traditional tanning, traditional washing, because geisha will still steal the beauty of the tanning group.

2015: best Panama BOP (Best of Panama auction), divided into winning group sunburn, winning group water washing, traditional tanning, traditional washing, allowing another excellent variety, Pacamala Pacamara, to join the competition, but the result was bleak, with only one batch of 32 batches shortlisted.

Rose summer coffee tree is a wild variety from Geisha Mountain, Ethiopia, so it is named after Geisha. It is translated as rose summer coffee because its pronunciation is similar to the Japanese word "Rose Summer".

It was discovered in 1931, came to Costa Rica in 1953, and then spread to Panama. The output of rose summer coffee trees is not high, and it was originally ignored by coffee farmers, but since the third wave of coffee, coffee lovers have increased their pursuit of coffee with unique flavor. as a result, coffee farmers' attention to coffee varieties has shifted from the original output to quality and flavor, and this low-yield coffee variety has been discovered in Panamanian Jade Manor. But it has a unique gorgeous aroma of flowers and fruits and citrus, so take this coffee bean to participate in the 2004 cup test competition, and won the championship many times, and then often appeared and ranked among the best in various coffee competitions, of course, the price is also high.

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