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Difference in flavor characteristics of coffee beans between Panamanian and Ethiopian rose summer what is the real taste of rose summer

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Panama is the birthplace of rose summer, and biologists have determined that Ethiopia is the birthplace of rose summer through genetic comparison. So it is inevitable that we compare the rosy summers of Panama and Ethiopia. The front street compares the rose summer of Panama with that of Ethiopia, although they both have excellent acidity and fragrance.

Panama is the birthplace of rose summer, and biologists have determined that Ethiopia is the birthplace of rose summer through genetic comparison. So it is inevitable that we compare the rosy summers of Panama and Ethiopia.

The front street compares the rose summer of Panama with that of Ethiopia. Although they both have excellent acidity and fragrance of flowers, they are obviously different from each other in terms of flavor description. The rosy summer of Panama has obvious aromas of jasmine, citrus (berries), rich honey, soft and comfortable as a whole. The rose summer of Ethiopia also has the fragrance of flowers, and the main tone is a very rich sense of juice (orange juice), full of Ethiopian explosive fruit flavor.

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Rosa is famous in Panama. Before 2004, no one knew the name of "Rose Xia". At that time, the Jade Manor planted this variety only as a windbreak (at that time, it was not distinguished from other coffee trees and used to be a "border guard"). Later, the Jade Manor found that the flavor of this variety was amazing, so it was screened and treated alone. It won the championship of BOP in 2004, and the name of Rose Xia also spread all over the world. Therefore, Qianjie will regard the flavor of Panamanian rosy summer as authentic.

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What does the summer of Panama have to do with Ethiopia? Now the mainstream theory is that the summer of Panama spread halfway across the world from Ethiopia. In 1931, plant experts sampled and studied in the Kafa forest in Ethiopia. The purpose of this sampling is to find out the best varieties of disease-resistant species collected in the Kafa forest during the leaf rust outbreak in 1860 (when tree species were collected and selected and screened in Kenya). French biologist Jean-PierreLabouisse later verified the clue and found that the coffee beans originally marked Rosa Mountain came from different trees, which means it is not just a kind of Rosa coffee. The seeds marked with roses were shipped to Kenya for breeding and sample investigation in 1931 and 1932. It was sent to Uganda and Tanzania in 1936. In 1953, the Tropical Agricultural Education and Research Center in Costa Rica introduced the Rosa experimental species planted in Tanzania to China and put it on file under the serial number "T2722". In the 1960s, Mr. Don Patch of Don Patch Manor in Panama introduced the rose summer variety from the Center for Tropical Agricultural Education and Research in Costa Rica, initially on the grounds of resistance to leaf rust. So Don Patch also shared these varieties with other estates. Until the rosy summer of 2004 exhaled and raised his eyebrows.

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So from this statement, we can basically understand that the rose summer of Panama is only one of the many "rose summers" in Ethiopia. And it was only after many twists and turns that it was found to be of good quality after taking root in Panama for 40 years. This is the second reason why the flavor of Panamanian rose summer is different from that of Ethiopia, that is, the local environment is different. There is also an old saying that tangerine is born in Huainan and trifoliate orange in Huaibei. In terms of the appearance of raw beans, there is also a great difference between Panama Rose Summer and Ethiopia Rose Summer. The raw bean characteristics of Panama Rose Summer are more recognizable, "pointed at both ends, long strips, fat and full-bodied beans with large particles". Ethiopia's Rose Summer is "a little smaller, but not that long".

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Panamanian jadeite blue standard (above); gold standard of Essel summer village (bottom).

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Therefore, apart from the fact that everyone is called "Rose Summer" in Chinese ("Geisha" in Ethiopia and "Gesha" in Panama), as well as the genetic similarity and vegetation characteristics compared by botanists, they are two types of coffee in terms of flavor and bean appearance. Just like the tin card planted in Indonesia and Panama, it has the same characteristics in terms of vegetation characteristics and two types of coffee in terms of flavor.

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