Citrus-flavored Panamanian Coffee Taste the characteristics of the manor producing area introduction to Caesar Louis Manor

The story starts from the last century and from the digging of the Panama Canal. This maritime traffic route, on a par with the Suez Canal, and the geographical dividing line between North and South America, should also be the first landmark that comes to mind when the world talks about Panama.

The construction of the Panama Canal lasted 30 years from 1883 to 1914. The project was initially led by the French, and then the development rights fell to the Americans, during which as many as 50,000 craftsmen and technicians were employed, many of whom were engineers from northern Europe. Toleff Bache M ö nniche is one of them.

The Norwegian engineer, who graduated from Dresden College in Germany, was in charge of gate technology at the port of Cologne on the Panama Canal. Tropical rain forest climate in Panama, hot and humid and mosquito ravages make it difficult for many Nordic people to adapt, continue to suffer from disease, many people died as a result. In 1911, Toleff Bache, who had suffered from malaria for the fourth time, took a steamboat along the Pacific coast to Bopquete, a small town in Chiriqui province, where the dry climate and fresh air allowed him to recover. Deeply in love with the land, he returned here in 1924 with his wife Julia and bought a piece of land at the foot of the Baru volcano, what is now Lilida Manor. They built their own house here, a Nordic-style building, and have lived here ever since, and started the operation of a coffee estate when the commodity price of coffee was relatively low. The Panamanian Fine Coffee Association organized a competition called "Best Panama": coffee beans from different parts of Panama were ranked and auctioned online. Esmeralda Manor has been growing a kind of coffee called "Geisha" for many years, and the auction has made their coffee known to more people. Then they won the first place in the competition for four consecutive years from 2004 to 2007, and then won the competition again in 2009 and 2013. It kept breaking records until it was priced at $21/lb in 2004 and then rose to $170/lb in 2010. In 2013, a small portion of the sun-treated coffee was sold for $350.25/lb. There is no doubt that this is the highest price ever sold for a single manor coffee.

Unlike some other high-priced coffee (such as cat shit, Blue Mountain), the coffee quality of this estate is really up to its price level, although high demand and market factors also play a role. This record-breaking coffee tastes unusual: bright and strong floral and citrus flavors, full of tea. All these come from the advantages of "Geisha".