What grade does the "black label" rose summer coffee beans at bop Emerald Estate in Panama belong to?

If you want to say who is the "top stream" of the boutique coffee industry at present, the answer must be the rosy summer with high popularity. Since 2004, after the Feicui Manor won the success of Rosa Rosa, they have lived up to expectations to carry out strict and fine planting and management of this delicious variety, and launched a set of special grading system to completely high-end Rosa coffee beans.

If you are a rose summer enthusiast, I believe you are no stranger to the terms such as "red mark", "green mark" and "standard king" under the grading system of jadeite manor. But I don't know if you have noticed that at some point last year, there is suddenly a new grade on the market-"black label". Compared with other marked summers launched by Jade Manor in the past, it is not only expensive, but also appears with a very low frequency. there is little information about it on the Internet, and even the products and pricing are particularly mysterious. So what is the origin of it?

Before going deep into this "black mark", Qianjie will briefly review several levels of the Feicui Manor for you.

In the past, Jade Manor divided its rose beans into red, green and blue marks from high to low. With the cancellation of the lowest blue mark, the Panamanian estate's rose summer product line has been maintained at two main levels in recent years, namely, red and green, as well as expensive bids.

As consumers, we are more likely to judge the level by the color of the product trademark: when the label is underlined in red and printed with a coffee flower, it is Esmeralda Special (jadeite special selection, that is, the red standard); if the coffee flower in the label is green, it means Private Collection (private collection, that is, green standard); and the Esmeralda Auction that needs to be obtained by auction will often use gray background.

For many years, the red mark has always been the representative of the highest quality of the jadeite manor, which is defined as a high-quality rose with an altitude of more than 1600 meters, a cup test score of not less than 91 points, and detailed traceability information. Fans know that all jadeite red signs carry a batch number to track their planting plot, altitude, longitude and latitude, tree age, harvest date, treatment method, cup test flavor and other information.

(Qianjie started in 2022 in the sun red sign rose summer)

On the other hand, the green standard with a more friendly price is the rose summer of mixed harvest batches, which is required in the range of 1600 to 1800 meters above sea level, and only provides two traditional treatment methods: sun exposure and water washing. If you are interested in more details about different sub-estates and each small plot, you can review the previously shared articles, and Qianjie will not repeat them here.

With regard to the latest "black mark" on the market, Qianjie looked at the official website of the Jade Manor and found that it has not yet been included in the fixed product series of Rose Summer, and the landowner has not promoted it much, so there is little detailed background introduction about it on the Internet.

Through a small amount of official disclosure of information, and combined with the sharing of various buyers, Qianjie learned that the latest rose summer grade of Jade Manor is called "Esmeralda Nano", also known as "Nano Lot". It is a batch launched by the Peterson family last year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut, and there is no literal translation of the name in Chinese. Because the Peterson brothers and sisters designed the logo color of this grade as a black coffee flower (or with a black base), Chinese buyers also called it a "black standard" as it used to be named.

The so-called "black mark", simply understood as a micro-batch selected on the basis of the red label Rose Summer, needs to meet at least one of the following characteristics: either from a small area of land with a special location, or using an experimental processing method.

At present, the newly launched Black Standard Rose Summer is mostly collected from new plots with higher elevation and very little production, such as the popular sub-estate-Cannes Vidis, where two small plots of Rosa coffee are sold as black marks, one is Nido planted at 2050 meters, and the other is Gigante over 1900 meters. In addition, two small plots of the veil have been included in the black label batch, namely Pinto, which is as high as 2200 meters above sea level, and Valle, which is 2000 meters high.

In addition, each individual black label batch is usually only a few kilograms or more than a dozen kilograms, and it is said that some batches are even less than 1000 grams, which can be said to bring scarcity to the extreme, so the price will be much higher than the ordinary red label. So Qianjie hasn't had a chance to taste it. However, this also explains why it has always remained "mysterious" in the market when it made its debut last year.

Finally, with regard to the introduction of experimental treatment batches, it should stem from the initiative of Jadeite Manor to invest in the reconstruction of permanent greenhouses and microbiology laboratories in the previous year or two, they hope to do a variety of more detailed experiments, and then contrast with the traditional treatment, and better understand the impact of different environmental and biological factors on the quality of coffee.

For example, low-temperature fermentation scaffolding dry washing, the steps will be more delicate and tedious than traditional washing. After harvest, the ripe coffee cherries will be washed to remove the outer skin and pulp, and then put into a sealed steel tank in a temperature-controlled freezer to ferment for 3 days. After fermentation, the shell beans are taken out and laid on an elevated bed to dry for 18 days to form a stronger flower and fruit aroma.

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