Volcan Azul - Gesha

About:

This is the third year we are bringing in coffees from our valued partner and friend, Alejo Castro & his family. Alejo Castro is the fifth generation descendant of renowned coffee pioneers Alejo C. Jimenez and Wilhelm Kahle. Alejo's ancestors planted some of the first specialty coffee plantations in the early 1900s with the aim to produce the best coffee in the world. With over 200 years of family tradition in trading specialty coffee, Alejo's mission for the farm has been exclusively focused on improving coffee quality while making a positive impact on the environment. The highly fertile volcanic soil combined with the mill's impeccable processing methods have produced a history of award-winning coffees in Costa Rica. We are very excited to bring in this double fermented natural processed coffee from Volcan Azul. It has a very unique and sweet profile that is incredibly complex and creamy.

In his words:

VARIETY ""Geisha seeds were brought from the gesha region in Ethiopia to the Catie institute in Costa Rica. Here we didn ́t take advantage of having this because the model was having big centralized mills with bigger volume and good homogenous quality. So the seeds were taken to Panamá where they became famous. In the 2000 ́s we started to go back to the model of single estate micromills so we started to plant these types of varieties. The first Geisha I planted was in 2012, I didn't know much about the tree but I was always curious about having new varieties. I had the first Geisha harvest in 2016 and got impressed by its quality. That year it was taken to the World Barista Championship in Dublin. The next year we won the presidential award in the Cup of Excellence for having a 90+ score. So in 2017 we started to plant it on a bigger scale so we are starting to have again new production of Geisha."