Geisha Colombia Cauca Valley Hope Estate Boutique Coffee

The opportunity the manor would like to see at that time was "Geisha" (also known as a geisha). After the Panamanian Emerald Manor became famous because of the rediscovery of rose summer in the garden, coffee farms around the world were studying the possibility of planting rose summer, but there was no rose summer variety in Colombia. It was hoped that the manor owner Rigoberto Herrera sent the chief botanist Hernando Tapasco to Panama to study, rented La Cardeida Farm next door to the Bogut Emerald Manor, and Tapasco himself stayed in Bogut for a year. Thoroughly study the planting and production technology of Rosa rugosa.

In December 2006, the Hope Manor bought the Cerro Azul in Colombia's Cauca Valley, the geographical environment is very close to Poquette, the warm air rising from the Cauca Valley and the cold air from the Pacific meet at the manor. The manor has 20 hectares of arable land between 1700 and 1950 meters above sea level, originally planted with Caturra. In September 2007, 35,000 rose summer trees were planted. Unexpectedly, two months later, some of the saplings died, and Rigoberto's brother wanted to give up, thinking that the wind was too cold for planting and should be changed to cattle pasture. Rigoberto refused to admit defeat, insisted on replanting, and planted windbreaks on the top so that the strong wind would not destroy the coffee shrubs.

The rosy summers survived and won the second place in the annual World Coffee Competition of the American Fine Coffee Association in 2012, and the rosy summers of the other two estates of Hope Manor. A total of three places in the top 10: second, third and seventh, creating an incredible treble.

Hope that the manor is different from other manors, with doctoral botanists, three professional cup surveyors, 100 full-time employees, and currently manages a manor under its jurisdiction. The estate is owned by the Herrera brothers. In fact, the grandfather of the Herrera brothers, who ran a coffee farm in the Trujillo district of Colombia, gradually declined, and the two brothers left Colombia. But they did not give up their dream of going back to their hometown to run a coffee farm.

The first estate that Herrera bought when he returned home was Trujillo's La Esperanza, which is very close to their grandfather's original farm and is now used as a regional headquarters. The manor itself is 100% organic, with a variety of coffee trees including Colombian species, Castillo, Caturra and more than 14000 organic roses. Next, Herrera bought four estates in Trujillo and Caicedonia, north of Trujillo. Together with the La Cardeida estate in Boquete, Panama, which was leased in 2005, it now has six estates and a total coffee planting area of 213 hectares.