Summary of Geographic and Climatic Development of Hope Manor Finca La Espera in Colombia

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The Hope Manor is located at an altitude of 1400-1600 meters, with an output of 300,700 bags. Most of the processing is done on the farm, washing and drying in the sun, and the shell, pulp and mucous membrane are used as fertilizer. The estate grows 60% Katula, 20% Katuai and 20% iron pickup and other varieties, the most famous being the rose summer seed, which won the championship in BEST OF PANAMA in 2008. They also plant many local trees as shade trees and nourish the soil, including orange trees and many tropical fruits such as lemons and grapefruit. There is a huge tropical rainforest nature reserve in the manor, and colleagues have at least three different mountain wells with rich rainfall, with an average annual rainfall of 3200 mm and a weather temperature range of 16-23 degrees during the day and 14-20 degrees at night.

Hope that the manor is different from other manors, with doctoral botanists, three professional cup surveyors, 100 full-time employees, and currently manages a manor under its jurisdiction. The estate is owned by the Herrera brothers. In fact, the grandfather of the Herrera brothers, who ran a coffee farm in the Trujillo district of Colombia, gradually declined, and the two brothers left Colombia. But they did not give up their dream of going back to their hometown to run a coffee farm.

The first estate that Herrera bought when he returned home was Trujillo's La Esperanza, which is very close to their grandfather's original farm and is now used as a regional headquarters. The manor itself is 100% organic, with a variety of coffee trees including Colombian species, Castillo, Caturra and more than 14000 organic roses. Next, Herrera bought four estates in Trujillo and Caicedonia, north of Trujillo. Together with the La Cardeida estate in Boquete, Panama, which was leased in 2005, it now has six estates and a total coffee planting area of 213 hectares.

Cafe Granja La Esperanza's estate is located in eight unique microclimate regions of the three Colombian mountains, giving their botanists an excellent opportunity to experiment with different microclimates and land flavors, different treatments, and different coffee varieties, combining the rationality of scientists, the sense of smell of businessmen and their insistence on the quality of coffee. For example, they create different treatment steps and norms for different microclimates and varieties. From seedling cultivation to export, there are 95 data points to manage all the data.

Hernando Tapasco's team, the lead botanist, set up a climate station on the estate to track weather data and help make harvest decisions. The data on the farm were collected continuously and analyzed once a week. After harvest, they will compare weather data, production data and cup test data and analyze the correlation. The harvesters of Rose Summer are strictly trained to collect only ripe cherry fruits and are paid by the day, unlike other manors by weight. In order to prevent workers from harvesting unqualified cherries in order to improve their performance, half of the harvesting workers have more than six years of experience. After the fruit is harvested, it will be sent to the central processing plant in Hope Manor, and each batch of rose will be marked and dealt with separately. First go through the drying stage three days ago in the sun field, and then move to the small tower to dry. Strict quality control is another key. There are 40, 000 to 45, 000 rose trees in Cerro Azul Manor, of which only 5-7000 can produce rose beans with the Cerro Azul brand.

The experiment and innovation of Hope Chateau on variety seems to be endless, constantly experimenting with different new varieties, in addition to the organic Kaddura, which used to make up the majority of the area of the Hope estate, from rose summer, organic rose summer, mocha, bourbon (including different red, yellow, Tekizik bourbon), pointed bourbon, Pakamara, San Bernardo and Pache, they really bring the chateau's serious attitude towards grape varieties to coffee. After the rose summer, from the Pacamara, Bourbon and even the pointed Bourbon produced by the Hope Manor, continue to create the surprise and admiration of the boutique coffee world.

Their actions finally paid off. As early as the 2008 "Best Panama" competition, I hope that the La Cardeida rented by the manor will win the best Panama championship with a high score of 93.16. The best coffee treble of the year in 2012 was won by the three main growers of Rosa Rosa: Cerro Azul second, Las Magarita third and Buenos Aires Experimental Manor seventh.