Introduction to Cupid Coffee

Today, I finally found a coffee bean with high cost performance. It is 30% rosewood, a coffee from Panama's Boquete Volcano region, and has a very beautiful name-Cupid, which means love in Greek mythology.

This coffee is composed of three varieties of Guixia, Kadura and Kaduai. It grows in the volcanic area at an altitude of 1600 meters. The processing plant uses fine honey treatment and traditional washing. Panama's special local microclimate leads to abundant rainfall in this area, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. In addition, the volcanic rock soil unique to volcanic areas, as well as careful harvesting and fine treatment, make this coffee outstanding in terms of thickness, acid and high mountain black tea aroma.

The Baru volcano is not only the highest mountain range in Panama, but the sediments produced by early volcanic activity and eruptions have brought abundant and very fertile soil, which is rich in nutrients, especially phosphorus and sulfur. When mixed with clay, together with unique climatic patterns, the region has formed an environment suitable for the growth of high-quality coffee. The dense forest and the large number of species form the overall biodiversity.

The coffee farmers here, about 50 of them in a small cooperative, produce coffee the traditional way in the Borquites-growing it in a near-natural environment. Although the yield is not high, it can maintain a rich ecological environment, and the soil quality can be maintained or even improved. Natural cultivation methods are not only beneficial to the environment, because coffee fruit grows slowly, so it is easier to grow high-quality and very good flavor coffee beans. The farmers harvest the whole berries manually and send them to the nearby Cafede Eleta S.A. for post-processing, which is about 4 km away from the farm and has a modern laboratory attached for quality control and manual screening.

What is even more surprising is that on the basis of very good quality, the price of this coffee bean is very close to the people. What makes this coffee bean special is that it is made up of three varieties, 30% of which are the famous rose summer, giving this coffee a distinct rose summer flavor.

Information obtained from green bean dealers indicates that, because of the history of the estate, early rosewood varieties were mixed with Kadura and Kaduai coffee trees in pursuit of yield at that time, and coffee farmers did not reclassify them for easy picking, but directly mixed the three varieties. After that, due to the fame of Guixia and the high price, the processing plant began to carry out fine washing treatment + honey treatment for such a coffee bean. The coffee thus processed has a clean taste, emphasizing bright and lively fruit acids, as well as clear fruit and floral flavors. Honey processing also adds sweetness and caramel taste.