LIMITED | PANAMA | Hacienda La Esmeralda | Nano Lot | Valle 2NC | Geisha | Natural

Rudolph Peterson purchased Hacienda La Esmeralda as a retirement venture in 1967, and his family has been tending to the land around the small town of Boquete ever since. In the early days, the land was primarily pasture for beef cattle, but over the years, the family transitioned to dairy cattle and coffee production. Now twenty years ago, in 2004, the Peterson family and Hacienda La Esmeralda, took the coffee world by storm. That year's Best of Panama competition saw Geisha reintroduced to the world – its bright and lively acidity, and prominent floral notes leapt off the cupping table, and after the initial shock it secured the highest price ever paid for coffee at auction. The Petersons now grow Geisha in many sections of their estate.  This very special lot is from the Valle plot of El Velo, the newest of Hacienda La Esmeralda’s farms – Valle is in the highest section of the farm, with altitude at or above 2,000 masl., and this is the first-year coffees from Valle have been rel