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Panamanian Catova Coffee Family Story how does BOP win the Coffee Bean Manor grow coffee?

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Kotowa won six awards in the 2016 Panama Best Competition. Kotowa was promoted to the 2016 Panama Cup Kotowa2014 won the Panama Cup of the year in May. Kotowa was named Coffee of the year by the Panamanian Cup. KOTOWA Don K. Coffee won the first place in the traditional variety in the 2012 Panamanian national competition. From KOTOWA Duncan Farm.

Kotowa won six awards in the 2016 Panama Best Competition

Kotowa qualifies for the 2016 Panama Cup

Kotowa2014 won the "Panamanian Best" Cup in May

Kotowa was named Coffee producer of the year by the Panama Cup.

KOTOWA Don K. Coffee won the first place in the traditional variety in the 2012 Panamanian national competition.

Coffee from KOTOWA Duncan Farm won the first place in the natural process category in the 2012 Panama National Competition.

The National Environment Agency awarded the first place in Panama's Cleanest Industry Award in 2006.

The fourth place in the 2006 American Fine Coffee Association World Coffee Competition was held in the United States.

Seeing here, everyone must be very curious about this award-winning kotowa Manor! Full of legends, how did they achieve the highest level of coffee quality on the island? Next, let's explore the coffee family of Katova.

The name KOTOWA comes from the aboriginal word, meaning "mountain".

Kotowa Farms is named after Alexander Duncan Macintyre, who started the family coffee business. Sometime in the early 1900s, Alexander read an article from the Bockett region in the remote Central American country of Panama. He read about the mountains around a mysterious volcano.

An undeveloped area with a continuously cool climate. His curiosity drove him to visit the area and fell in love with the magic of the region, its people and the valley. For four generations, the Alexander family has grown and processed in the same traditional way and is proud to provide truly special coffee.

During the harvest, cherries to be processed are carefully selected, pulped with modern equipment and technology, and pulped with clean crystalline water from our natural sources. Only in this way can coffee beans be slowly dried in sunlight at an altitude of 1700 meters or in equipment no more than 45 degrees Celsius to maintain quality and flavor.

Wait patiently for at least two months to let the coffee "precipitate" in our wine cellar, a process that ripens the taste and aroma of the coffee. Then we carefully separate the coffee beans to be roasted according to size, color and weight. Each batch is tasted every day to determine if there is a "KOTOWA" quality.

Our quality system is recognized through the traceability of each batch. Each bag of coffee has an identification number that records the details of all farm and processing activities.

Our production and process always take into account the environment. We use only half a liter of water per kilogram of dry processed coffee, much lower than the average in other countries. All by-products of this process are converted into "compost", which is used as organic compost at our Duncan Farm.

We protect the primeval forests around us by ensuring that there are no fires in the dry season. We are not allowed to hunt or destroy the environment. The area is the natural habitat for many birds, migratory birds and native birds. To ensure that they can continue to live around us, we have planted more than 500 local fruit trees as the basis of their diet. In view of the geographical location of Panama, there are more bird species in our small country than in North America and Europe combined.

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