A delicate expression of washed Geisha from Las Brujas.

KOTOWA LAS BRUJAS • LOT 3949

Geisha • Washed

Panama • Boquete, Chiriquí

Café Kotowa is a family coffee producer in Boquete, now under the stewardship of fourth-generation producer Ricardo Koyner. Las Brujas lies on the southern slopes of Volcán Barú, where mature trees provide shade around the coffee.

This washed Geisha presents a gentle floral profile, with rose and green tea at the centre of the cup. Delicate and tea-like, with a clean finish.

Flavour Notes

Floral

Rose

Green Tea

50g

A natural Geisha from Las Brujas, with fruit and a tea-like character.

KOTOWA LAS BRUJAS • LOT 4162

Geisha • Natural

Panama • Boquete, Chiriquí

Café Kotowa is a family coffee producer in Boquete, now under the stewardship of fourth-generation producer Ricardo Koyner. Las Brujas lies on the southern slopes of Volcán Barú, where mature trees provide shade around the coffee.

This naturally processed Geisha brings together black cherry and tamarind with an oolong tea character. A fruit-forward cup with a distinctive tea-like finish.

Flavour Notes

Black Cherry

Tamarind

Oolong Tea

50g

For a coffee, this one spends a suspicious amount of time talking about tea.

Abbraccio is an initiative by Altieri Specialty Coffee supporting smaller producers through quality evaluation, processing guidance and access to a wider market.

This lot comes from Finca Hermanos Pérez. Naturally processed Geisha brings lavender florals and grapefruit brightness, with a gentle green-tea character tying them together.

Coffee Information

Origin: Panama • Volcancito

Farm: Finca Hermanos Pérez

Project: Abbraccio by Altieri

Lot: DF Loma 170126

Variety: Geisha

Process: Natural

Net weight: 100g

Flavour Notes

Lavender • Grapefruit • Green Tea

Maple syrup in your coffee. No pancakes required.

Elida Estate has been owned by the Lamastus family since 1918. In the highlands of Boquete, Panama, coffee grows among native cloud forest, with much of the estate within the protected Volcán Barú National Park. Cool nights and misty conditions slow cherry ripening, giving these high-altitude coffees time to develop.

LOMA is a naturally processed Geisha grown at 1,800m. Maple-syrup sweetness meets bright pineapple, with delicate jasmine florals lifting the finish. Sweet, tropical and quietly elegant.

Coffee Information

Origin: Panama • Boquete

Estate: Elida • Lamastus Family Estates

Block / lot: LOMA

Altitude: 1,800m

Variety: Geisha

Process: Natural

Net weight: 50g

Flavour Notes

Maple Syrup • Pineapple • Jasmine

If the weather won’t bring the sunshine, we’ll put a sunflower in the cup.

The Lamastus family has been growing coffee in Panama since 1918, with four generations behind the estates. Elida sits in the highlands of Boquete, with around half of the farm located within the protected Volcán Barú National Park.

Vuelta 070326 brings soft honeydew sweetness, a sunflower-like floral character and a bright citrus edge. A little sunshine for your next brew.

Coffee Information

Origin: Panama • Los Naranjos, Boquete

Estate: Elida • Lamastus Family Estates

Block / lot: Vuelta • 070326

Altitude: 1,875–1,900m

Variety: Geisha

Process: Washed DRD

Net weight: 50g

Flavour Notes

Honeydew • Sunflower • Citrus

White grapes have found their way into your coffee cup.

Hacienda Barbara is owned by the Rogers family, with production led by Hunter Tedman and Linda Michelle Arauz. Across its farms in Chiriquí, roughly half of the land is kept as protected forest.

Lot 13 offers a gentle, fruit-led expression of washed Geisha. White grape sweetness sits alongside fresh lemongrass, with soursop bringing a soft tropical character.

Coffee Information

Origin: Panama • Hacienda Barbara

Lot: 13

Variety: Geisha

Process: Washed

Net weight: 100g

Flavour Notes

White Grape • Lemongrass • Soursop

Not everything from Gesha Village has to be Gesha.

This lot comes from the Gaylee block of Gesha Village, grown at around 1,911–2,001m, but instead of Gori Gesha or Gesha 1931, this one is Illubabor.

Processed as a Washed coffee, the cup puts clarity first — showing a very different side of Gesha Village from the highly floral Geisha lots the estate is best known for.

Bright pineapple leads the cup, followed by juicy grape sweetness and a soft violet-like floral character.

Clean, vibrant and a little unexpected.

Flavour Notes

Pineapple
Grapes
Violet

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Ethiopia • Sidama

Ranked #6 in the Natural Category at the Taste of Harvest (TOH), this lot comes from Buku Abel in Sidama and is grown at around 2,000m with the 74158 variety.

Taste of Harvest, organised by the African Fine Coffees Association, is one of East Africa’s major annual green coffee competitions. Each producing country selects its best coffees through national judging, with top lots progressing to regional competition — making it an important platform for recognising quality across African origins.

Buku Abel has become one of the standout names in recent TOH competitions, and this lot shows why.

Processed as a Natural, the coffee keeps a vivid fruit character while maintaining impressive clarity. Blueberry sweetness leads the cup, followed by bright lemon and bergamot, with tangerine bringing a clean citrus finish.

Bright, juicy and very Ethiopian — but with the structure of a competition lot.

Flavour Notes

Blueberry
Lemon
Bergamot
Tangerine

Extremely limited. And we mean extremely.

This is not a coffee we expect to have around for very long.

GESHA VILLAGE AUCTION • GVA.20

Surma Gesha 1931 – Honey

This lot comes directly from the 2026 Pride of Gesha Auction, the tenth edition of Gesha Village’s annual auction and one of the most tightly curated releases from the estate.

Only 34 lots were selected for this year’s auction across the entire farm, representing different varieties, processes and expressions of Gesha Village. Each lot is auctioned individually, with the winning bidder securing the entire lot.

GVA.20 comes from Surma, one of Gesha Village’s Gesha 1931 blocks, grown between 1,911–2,069m.

Processed as a Honey, it combines the elegance and transparency of Ethiopian Gesha with a fuller sweetness and fruit-driven structure.

The cup opens with delicate florals, followed by bright passion fruit and orange, then layers of ripe berries underneath.

Rare, expressive and genuinely difficult to replace once it’s gone.

Flavour Notes

Floral · Passion Fruit · Berries · Orange

El Burro is part of Lamastus Family Estates, a four-generation coffee-growing family in Panama whose history dates back to 1918.

Located in the highlands of Chiriquí, the estate is surrounded by native cloud forest and young volcanic soils, with part of the land connected to the protected environment of Volcán Barú National Park. Its southern location gives El Burro a noticeably different microclimate from the family's other estates, creating a distinct expression of Panamanian Geisha.

This lot is naturally processed, allowing the fruit to dry around the seed and build a fuller, sweeter profile while retaining the clarity and structure we look for in high-elevation Geisha.

Juicy, fruit-driven and incredibly lively, with ripe grape sweetness and layers of fresh berries.

Flavour Notes

Juicy
Grapes
Berries

Ethiopia • Sidama
2,100m
74158
Zero Fermentation Washed

No fermentation. Literally.

This lot from Bombe, Sidama takes washed coffee back to its simplest form. Once the cherries are harvested, they’re depulped and the mucilage is removed immediately — no fermentation stage at all — before being dried on raised beds under shade.

It sounds almost suspiciously simple, especially in a world where coffee processing seems to gain another fermentation step every year.

But that’s exactly what makes this lot interesting.

Without fermentation doing the talking, the character of the 74158 variety and its terroir comes through with remarkable clarity. The cup is bright, delicate and extremely clean: fresh green grape sweetness, soft frangipani florals and a crisp citrus finish.

Sometimes doing less really does give you more.

Flavour Notes

Green Grape
Frangipani
Citrus

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LAS BRISAS • Bourbon Aji 200g
Washed
Colombia • Huila

Las Brisas is a family farm run by Julian and his father Bernardo in Pitalito, Huila, at 1,500–1,600 metres above sea level. Surrounded by mountain streams and abundant natural water sources, the farm cultivates a diverse range of varieties including Gesha, Pink Bourbon, Colombia, Caturra and Bourbon Aji.

A third-generation coffee-growing family, Bernardo is well known in the local community not only for his decades of farming experience, but also as a passionate singer. Julian, a graduate of SENA National Coffee School, focuses on processing innovation, continuously refining washed, honey and anaerobic fermentation techniques to unlock each variety’s full potential.

This washed Bourbon Aji is a beautiful example of that philosophy — remarkably transparent, elegant and intensely floral.

Flavour Notes

Elderflower
Jasmine
Lavender