COLOMBIA JEREMIAS LASSO GEISHA #592

Curator's Notes

Some folks trade Pokemon cards, others trade... coffee seeds! In this Johnny Appleseed story, one scrappy coffee lover with a suitcase of coffee seeds traveled to Colombia with a Panamanian prize: Geisha seeds from the prominent and well-known Hacienda La Esmeralda farm. These premium seeds found a home in the Colombian mountainside, with grower Jeremias Lasso, where they grew like wildfire in the lush volcanic soil. Jeremias has been nurturing these plants since 2009, and this is his first fruitful harvest.

Roaster's Notes

"This coffee comes from the most vaunted Geisha seedstock in the industry... and it tastes like it. The geisha's typical jasmine and stone fruit character is not as articulate in Jeremias’ lots, it's replaced by entirely different but equally opulent flavors of tropical lime, distinct meyer lemon, and fragrant honeysuckle. Bergamot is the most dynamic flavor descriptor of these lots as a whole. What these lots do have in common with their Hacienda Esmeralda predecessors is that impeccable articulation. The flavors are perceptible in absolute fashion."