Why are Rosa Coffee varieties so expensive? description of the quality and taste characteristics of Panamanian Rosa coffee beans

Geisha is a very precious coffee variety with elegant white flowers and bright orange honey. Because of its excellent flavor performance, it has always occupied a dominant position in the coffee competition, and the price has risen year after year, so Rose Summer has always been described as "the ceiling of the coffee industry". In this article, Qianjie takes you to understand the history of Rose Summer and its charm.

In 1931, Rosa was first collected in the wild Kaffa Caffa forest south of Ethiopia in search of new disease-resistant varieties, named after the nearby Geisha Mountain. Later, after being transferred to Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and other institutes for trial planting, the rose summer seed came to the Tropical Plant Research Center CATIE in Costa Rica in 1953 and was recorded as T2722. There are records of planting on many local farms, but the branches of Rosa rugosa are fragile and the yield is not high, so they are not favored by farmers and are not widely planted.

In the 1960s, CATIE gave T2722 Rose Summer to coffee farmers in Panama, and Rose Summer began to enter the promised land of Panama. In the 1990s, the Peterson family, the owner of the emerald estate, began to attach importance to coffee production and acquired a new high-altitude farm, Haramillo Jaramillo. Many coffee trees on the farm have leaf rust, but Daniel Peterson (Daniel Peterson) noticed that the rose summer tree was not seriously hurt, so they decided to transplant the rose summer, which was originally mixed with other varieties, to more areas of the farm and increase its altitude.

In 2003, the Peterson family finally discovered the potential of Rose Summer. When it was tested for the first time, it showed a very strong aroma of white flowers, extremely clean taste, showing a berry, citrus, bergamot-like finish, thus forming a very typical Panamanian Rosa flavor. The amazing crowd decided to take it to the 2004 BOP (Best Panamanian Coffee) competition and named it "Geisha". So today's stunning Panamanian rosy summer coffee is the T2722 variety of that year.

The reason why Rose Summer is popular with coffee people is different from the thick black coffee in the traditional impression, it is more like a cup of fresh flower and fruit tea. With rich aromas and complex fruit flavors, reminiscent of a series of unusual aromas. At different temperatures, you can feel the delicate texture and sweet and sour fruit flavor fill the whole mouth. Rose summer has such extraordinary flavor characteristics that it has become the "ceiling" of many coffee people. What makes Rose Summer so popular is the "Bole" of Rose Summer Coffee-the Emerald Manor of Panama. The front street bean list always retains the two popular "red marks" and "green marks" of the Jade Manor, so that everyone can drink the "ceiling" of fine coffee every day.

Guests who drink Jade Manor Rose Summer Coffee for the first time in Qianjie Street often wonder, "Why is the Jade Manor Rose Summer so expensive?" Qianjie many articles will mention that as a crop, coffee flavor performance is always closely related to variety, climate, altitude, soil, management and other factors. The taste of coffee is the natural embodiment of varieties and local customs, while post-processing and baking should maximize the preservation, reduction and display of the true flavor of beans. The rose summer of the jadeite manor is so excellent that it is inseparable from the combination of the above factors.

Compared with other Arabica varieties, the rose variety not only has low fruit yield, but also has a particularly fragile plant, and is also very picky about the growing environment. It needs high altitude, fertile soil, clouds or plant shade, not direct exposure. The foliar system of Rosa coffee tree is very thin, that is to say, the efficiency of photosynthesis is very low, the root is still very fragile, and the absorption of water and nutrients is very slow, so the yield of coffee is very low, coupled with the high altitude growth environment, the fruit ripens later. The fruit yield of a rose summer coffee tree is only half that of the Kaddura variety, which is one of the reasons why rose summer is so valuable.

As the saying goes, the output of Rosa coffee is extremely rare. Panama produces about 10, 000 tons of coffee a year, while the famous Emerald Manor produces only 150 bags of raw beans, about 9000 kilograms. Rose summer accounts for only 3% of the output, only 270 kg. Coupled with the promotion and rendering of rose summer flavor by various media, everyone's enthusiasm for rose summer has only increased, and the price of rose summer coffee has naturally remained high.

Come to Qianjie, if it is your first time to drink rosy summer, the Qianjie barista will give you the sun red mark or water washing green mark of Amway Jade Manor. The so-called red mark is the jadeite selected grade ESMERALDA SPECIAL (including competitive bidding), and the green mark refers to the private collection grade PRIVATE COLLECTION.

The highest grade red label picked coffee fruit from Geisha (1600-1800 meters) at high altitude, with a cup score of more than 90 points, mainly from two farms, Jaramillo and Ca ñ asVerdes. Although it is highly faced with the challenges of planting and harvest, the flower and fruit flavor is the most prominent in the Pokuit region. The Jade Manor will hold independent bidding competitions. In the divided plots, the red bid lots for the competition are called competitive bids. The bidding lot will have a unique number, and each number corresponds to the entire lot of a lot. What we hear most often is the Mario (Mario) plot of Jaramillo Farm. The emerald red standard rose summer coffee beans in front of the street are from the Mario plot and are treated by the sun.

In addition, Qianjie is a green grade rose summer with water washing treatment, which shows a more fresh and natural flavor of lemon, berries, grapefruit and Tieguanyin tea. The green mark is selected from micro-batches of coffee beans planted at 1600-1800 meters above sea level and produced in different plots, such as Jaramillo and Ca ñ as Verdess. The green mark will not participate in the bidding, although the grade is not as high as the red bid, but it mainly reflects the iconic classic flavor of high-altitude rose summer.

As mentioned above in Qianjie, the rose summer flavor belongs to the flower-fragrant fruit acid type, so the baking degree is generally not too deep. In order to retain more elegant acidity, Qianjie chooses medium-light baking. Coffee beans are hard and need hot water at a higher temperature to release more aroma and finer grinding. It is paired with Hario V60 filter cup and segmented water injection to make the layers of Rosa flavor more obvious.

Filter cup: V60

Water temperature: 91-92 degrees Celsius

Powder content: 15g

Ratio of powder to water: 1:16

Total water injection: 240g

Degree of grinding: fine sugar size (20 sieve bowl sieve powder to 80%)

Three-stage extraction: first pour 15g coffee powder into the filter cup to clear the weight, the first stage is injected with 30g water for steaming for 30 seconds, at the same time, the whole small water flow center injection begins to circle outward, pay attention to the need to moisten the whole powder layer.

In the second stage, 120g of water is injected with a larger flow of water, in order to raise the entire powder layer, and the water column needs to be injected vertically and evenly, and the chronograph shows 150g, which is finished in about 55 seconds.

When the liquid level drops to half of the position, start to use a small flow around the small circle to inject 90 grams of the third section, try to control the flow is too large, easy to break the coffee powder layer and cause insufficient extraction. The final amount of water injection is 240 grams, and the completion time of drip filtration is about 2 minutes and 10 seconds. After removing the filter cup, shake the coffee liquid in the sharing pot and start tasting.

Red standard rose summer after grinding can smell a strong rose aroma, the entrance is mango tropical fruit, taste smooth like cream, not like drinking a cup of coffee, more like a cup of flower fruit tea; the flavor of green rose summer is clearer, the aroma of jasmine, the sweet and sour taste of berries and lemons, and the lasting finish of green tea.

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