Finca Lerida

Farm

Finca Lerida

Region:
Boquete, Chiriqui
Procesing station:
Finca Lerida

Varieties: Tipica
Altitude: 1600-1800
Processes: Honey
Cupping: 89

Common cupping notes:
Citrus, Sweet Lime full of floral flavor and smoothly sweetness, orange, grapefruit, green tea.

Finca Lerida is one of Boquete oldest and most traditional coffee properties. Located in the highlands of Boquete, at an altitude of 1,550 – 1850 meters on the slopes of Volcan Baru, with his deep rich volcanic soil, this beautiful mountain and traditional coffee plantation offer the best conditions for growing coffee of high quality.

The heavy rains and sunny season, dry harvest promotes the ideal conditions for the production of its award-winning Arabica beans.

Finca Lerida’s reputation is as old as the first coffee that Panama exported to Germany back in 1929. The high quality coffee produced inside this exceptional plantation made its international buyers realize that there was more to Panama that just its Canal. This was, and still is, Finca Lerida.

Lerida was established in 1917 by B. Tollef Monniche, a Norwegian engineer and graduated from the Royal College of Dresden, Germany, who worked on the design and construction of the Panama Canal’s emergency gates.

In 1924, the engineer finally retired and along with his wife Julia moved to Finca Lerida.

There he built his house – completely by hand – in a Norwegian countryside style and built the first coffee plantation in Panama. Apart from this, designed and patented the “siphon”, a device made to separate good from bad beans. This device is now used worldwide by many coffee plantations and is still working at Finca Lerida where the old benefit still processes a coffee of exceptional quality.

Muganza

Farm

Muganza

Region:
Gisagara Imbuto, Muganza
Procesing station:
Muganza washing station

Varieties: Bourbon
Altitude: 1800m
Processes: Natural
Cupping: 88

Common cupping notes:
Citrus, Oranges Cinnamon, Cloves, Dried dates, Orange juice, Winey, Citric acidity

Café de Gisagara is run by Good Neighbors, an NGO from Korea. The project began in 2014. Before the project began there was little attention given to coffee quality and little infrastructure existed. Income from the sale of the coffee by Café de Gisagara is reinvested into the region in different ways. A training farm was developed by the NGO, and a number of infrastructure investments were made, all to help improve production quality. Better farming techniques, to reverse soil degradation, are being taught. The aim of the project is to reduce poverty by helping the farmers to improve their coffee quality and the income the crop brings, but also by giving them the means by which they can do this sustainably.

If you love lighter roasts this bean is for you. The beans are typically smaller so they develop quickly. They are consistent. The southern part of Rwanda has much less incident of potato defect and this producer’s coffee is always super clean. You can go as dark as you like. These coffees are pretty flexible. We just happen to love the fruitiness you get at the lighter to medium end.