Geisha | Discover the sensational flavors of this exclusive coffee

Collection: Geisha | Discover the sensational flavors of this exclusive coffee

Nicaraguan Geisha, grown on our own farm in Matagalpa and sold as green coffee by the sample, the pound or the sack. Geisha is the varietal that reset expectations for what coffee could taste like — and the one most roasters have priced themselves out of. Ours is a genuine expression of it at a price that leaves room in your menu.

Nicaraguan Geisha, from Matagalpa

Geisha is associated with Panama, but the conditions that produce it are not exclusive to one country. Our Matagalpa parcels give it the altitude, cloud cover and diurnal temperature swing the varietal needs, in volcanic soil, on a farm our family has worked since 1947.

Yields are small and lots are limited each harvest. We mill and export through our own family dry mill, so a Geisha lot stays identified from the parcel through to your roastery rather than disappearing into a regional blend.

Buying Geisha green coffee

Roasters: a menu coffee. Geisha earns a place as the top of a range and is the lot customers remember. Washed Geisha green coffee is available from a 150 g sample through to a 69 kg sack, so you can cup it before committing to volume.

Enthusiasts: if you have been curious about Geisha but hesitant at Panamanian prices, this is a genuine expression of the varietal at a more reasonable one. We also roast it — washed Geisha, roasted.

What makes Geisha coffee different

Geisha — also written Gesha — is genetically distinct from the Bourbon and Typica lines behind most specialty coffee, and it carries an aromatic intensity closer to tea or jasmine than to what most people picture when they think of coffee.

It is also difficult. Geisha grows tall and sparse, yields poorly, and demands altitude. Those constraints are why it commands the prices it does, and why very few farms outside a handful of regions grow it well.

What Geisha tastes like

Jasmine and bergamot on the nose. In the cup, stone fruit and citrus with a tea-like body and a long, clean finish. It is delicate rather than heavy — a coffee that rewards a lighter roast and careful extraction, and that shows every flaw if either is rushed.

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