Why is the price of Rosa coffee so expensive?

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If you are new to the world of boutique coffee, if you are a coffee fan and are no stranger to geisha coffee (Geisha), you should learn about this legendary coffee variety.

Is it called geisha coffee (Geisha) from Japan? In fact, this kind of coffee has nothing to do with Japanese geisha culture, just because this coffee variety was originally called Gesha/Geisha Rosa Coffee, and its pronunciation is similar to that of Japanese geisha, so it is translated into geisha coffee. Taiwanese may call it Rose Summer Coffee.

Geisha, a wild coffee variety originally grown in southwestern Ethiopia, was brought to a coffee estate in Boquete district of Panama in 1963. Because of its poor yield and high tree species, rose coffee was planted next to the coffee farm as a windbreak.

2004 was a year that changed the fate of Geisha.

In that year, in order to participate in the national coffee competition, the son of the coffee farm searched all the coffee trees in the estate to test, only to find Rose Summer Coffee Geisha accidentally.

In the competition, Geisha won the championship with a strong and complex flavor, a blockbuster, one of which described it as God in a cup, and then won the championship for four consecutive years.

In the auction house, Geisha also broke many high price records.

Compared with the typical Panamanian coffee flavor, geisha's distinctive features are impressive, full of jasmine aromas, sour and sweet flavors of orange, lemon and honey, clean and soft on the palate.

Coffee beans worth nearly 20,000 yuan a pound

Located in the lower Boquete mountains of Panama, the Panamanian Emerald Manor (Hacienda La Esmeralda), 1800 meters above sea level, is famous for growing a variety of well-known coffee beans. In 2013, they set a record for coffee beans at a price of US $350 a pound in an auction held by the Panamanian Fine Coffee Association. In August of this year, their coffee beans nearly doubled in price. Break the coffee bidding record again with the price of US $601 per pound (equivalent to NT $10, 8000).

Editor's note: a pound is 454 grams, which is about 30 cups of coffee if it takes 15 grams of beans for a cup of coffee.