{"product_id":"panama-hacienda-la-esmeralda-guabo-3-fc-gesha","title":"Panama Hacienda La Esmeralda Guabo 3 FC Gesha","description":"\u003cp\u003eTastes Like: Mango, Pomelo, Magnolia, Pear\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"\" style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eOrigin: \u003c\/span\u003eBoquete\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, Chiriquí, Panama\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVariety: Gesha\u003cimg alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProducer: Hacienda La Esmeralda, Peterson Family\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElevation: 1870 masl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProcess: Washed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEl Velo is the newest of the Peterson family's farms at Hacienda La Esmeralda, bought in 2012, its fifty hectares in Quiel above Boquete and flat enough to plant in straight rows. It is the only Esmeralda farm where the topography allows it. Guabo sits on that land at 1,870 meters, below a mountain reserve where the elevation climbs to 2,900 meters. The mist comes down off the mountain and through the afternoon holds temperatures low enough that the cherries ripen slowly. Picked on 30 January 2026, we bought it directly from the Petersons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eMango opens the cup, ripe and yellow and sweet the whole way through, and pomelo comes up behind it, sweet and ripe, a mix of orange and yellow helping to round out the acidity and provide balance to the fruit in the cut. Magnolia is there on aftertaste and stays as the cup cools, a heavy white floral that gives the flavor its lift, and underneath it pear runs crisp and quiet into the finish, which is long and clean. The texture is silky and the acidity is soft and round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eGesha is an Ethiopian landrace, collected from the coffee forests in the 1930s and carried to Panama by way of Tanzania and CATIE, which took it into its collection in 1953 as accession T2722. The variety is known for a delicate floral character, jasmine and peach, and World Coffee Research's genetic work confirms the Panamanian population as its own distinct and uniform line among the Ethiopian types that share the name. The tree is tall and slow to mature, flower, and it grows in its beautiful flavor profile with time. It produces its best above 1,500 meters, where the hallmarks we have come to love from the variety shine. The Petersons entered it at the Best of Panama in 2004 and it sold at auction for $21 a pound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFC is Esmeralda's code for cold fermented washed with climate controlled drying. Cherries are picked at their ripest and depulped, that is then fermented in stainless steel tanks held at 16°C for 96 hours, where the cold slows microbe work and create a gentle fermentation spread across a longer time period. The parchment then dries for 17 days indoors, with airflow, temperature and humidity held constant throughout. Keeping both the fermentation and the drying slow and cold is the whole intention of the method, and you taste it in a cup of mango, pomelo, magnolia and pear, floral and sweet and clear the whole way down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helm Coffee","offers":[{"title":"100g (3.5oz)","offer_id":53532716859701,"sku":"C1127","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/0978\/0533\/files\/84Artboard42copy10_4x_2ab37687-ce3e-4dba-9d82-4a66cc0ebd56.png?v=1789120230","url":"https:\/\/helmcoffeeroasters.com\/products\/panama-hacienda-la-esmeralda-guabo-3-fc-gesha","provider":"Helm Coffee","version":"1.0","type":"link"}