Rose summer Geisha Colombian Cauca Cauca Valley Hope Manor boutique coffee

The opportunity Hope Manor saw was Geisha. Panama Emerald Manor became famous because it rediscovered rose summer in the garden. After becoming the world's top manor, coffee farms all over the world were studying the possibility of planting rose summer, but Colombia did not have rose summer varieties. Hope Manor owner Rigoberto Herrera sent chief botanist Hernando Tapasco to Panama to learn from them. He rented La Cardeida Farm next door to Emerald Manor in Boquet. Tapasco himself stayed in Boquet for a year to thoroughly study rose summer planting and production technology.

In December 2006, Hope Manor bought Cerro Azul in Colombia's Cauca Valley, a geographical environment very close to the terroir and the Borquites, where warm air rising from the Cauca Valley met cold air from the Pacific Ocean. The estate has 20 hectares of cultivated land located between 1700 and 1950 meters above sea level, originally planted with Caturra. In September 2007, 35,000 summer rose trees were planted. Unexpectedly, two months later, some of the saplings died, Rigoberto's brother wanted to give up, thinking that the wind was too cold to plant, and should be changed to cattle pasture. Rigoberto refused to concede defeat, insisted on replanting, and planted windbreaks on top so that strong winds would not destroy coffee bushes.

This batch of roses survived, and in the 2012 harvest season, won the second place in the annual World Coffee Competition of the American Fine Coffee Association, and the other two estates of Hope Manor took a total of three places in the top ten: second, third and seventh, setting an incredible triple crown.

Hope Manor was different from other manors. It had a PhD botanist, three professional cup surveyors, and 100 full-time employees. Currently, it managed the manors under its jurisdiction. The estate is owned by the Herrera brothers. In fact, the Herrera brothers 'grandfather ran a coffee farm in Trujillo, Colombia. Later, the brothers gradually declined and left Colombia. But they haven't given up on their dream of returning home to run a coffee plantation.

The first estate Herrera bought back home was La Esperanza in Trujillo, very close to their grandfather's original farm, which now serves as regional headquarters. The estate itself is 100% organic, with coffee trees of different varieties including Colombia, Castillo, Caturra and more than 14000 organic roses. Herrera then bought four estates in Trujillo and Caicedonia, north of Trujillo. Together with La Cardeida Estate in Boquete, Panama, leased in 2005, it now has six estates with a total coffee cultivation area of 213 hectares.