Gesha Forest: Auction Series
Ethiopian Washed Organic Gesha
Guatemalan Natural Gesha
Updated - 8/30/2024
Lot Info:
Producer(s):
Max Fernando Pérez Ríos of Finca La Hermosa
Region:
Acatenango, Guatemala
Process:
-Ethiopian Washed Organic Gesha, Washed Solar Dried, 15+ Specialty Preparation
-Guatemalan Natural Gesha Process, Floated & Screened, Solar Dried, 15+ Specialty Preparation
Elevation(s)
+1,500m
Cupping Notes:
Ethiopian Washed Gesha: Floral Raspberry Dates/Fig. Herbal Keemun Black Tea, Sweet & Light Cherry Finish.
Guatemalan Natural Gesha: Dark Chocolates, Black Cherries, Big Body, Sweetness, Clean Flavor Definition and Complexity for Dayzzz!
Availability:
3 - (15KG) Vacuum Sealed Bags @ (Ryan’s Home-Office in KC)
3 - (15KG) Vacuum Sealed Bags @ (Ryan’s Home-Office in KC)
Welcome to our Gesha Forest Auction Series Lots!
We’ve been honored to work with Max & Claudia Perez behind Finca La Hermosa for almost 6 years now! In 2020, they started something incredibly unique where they wanted to use their farm a way to showcase coffees from around the world. So they traveled/found ways to buy Gesha seeds from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Panama, and Guatemala to have them planted on their farm in Acatenango, Guatemala.
Each year, they host an auction of 16 lots that represent these gesha varietals from these 4 origins processed 4 different ways. In 2023, we bought 1 of these lots. In 2024, we’re excited to announce two lots!
Guatemalan Natural Gesha:
These seeds were taken from Max’s father’s farm in Huehuetenango, where Max originally grew up, and later planted in Finca La Hermosa. We’re lovers of a good natural so we were already eyeing the natural process coffees of the auction lots. Of the 4 naturals, this stood out the most being the cleanest, sweetnest, and mst complex coffee on the table.
We’re excited to share it with you! Reach out to get more info!
Ethiopian Washed Org Gesha:
This is perhaps one of the more exciting and yet difficult coffees to explain because an Ethiopian Gesha Lot coming from Guatemala doesn’t make a lot of sense up front until you start to explain Max & Claudia’s side-project farm called Gesha Forest.
For us, as Collaborative Origins Imports, we rarely buy coffees above $8 because we’re often focused in on supporting smallholder producers and moving more volume coffees at approachable and honorable price points. But when it came time to cup through the 16 Auctions lots, I kept falling back to this lot.
Despite behind heavily focused in Guatemalan coffees, Ethiopian coffees are secretly my personal favorite. They tend to be floral, herbal, great complexities, and with the occasional blueberry bomb here or there. Although Yemen might actually be the “true” origin place of coffee recently discovered, it’s hard to compete with a great Ethiopian coffee.
When cupping this lot, it shocked us to taste and really experience the attributes commonly known to Ethiopian coffees in a coffee that was grown and processed in Guatemala. I tend to believe in the influence of processing over varietal but these series of lots really proved that notion incorrect.
Without further adieu, we’re honored to introduce our 1st ever auction lot! Finca La Hermosa’s Gesha Forest: Ethiopian Washed Organic Gesha!
