ALTIERI COFFEE ALESSA 020425 - GEISHA, DFM - PANAMA

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ALTIERI COFFEE ALESSA 020425 - GEISHA, WASHED

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ORIGIN: PANAMA
REGION: ALTO QUIEL, BOQUETE
PRODUCER: ALTIERI FAMILY
FARM: MIMA ESTATE – ALESSA LOT
VARIETY: GEISHA
PROCESS: DFM – DRY FERMENTATION MACERATED
ALTITUDE: 1850 MASL

ROAST DATE: FEBRUARY 26, 2026

FROM THE ROASTER

ALTIERI COFFEE IS A 15-YEAR-OLD, FIRST-GENERATION ESTATE OWNED AND OPERATED BY PANAMA RESIDENT AND NEW YORK NATIVE EUGENE ALTIERI AND HIS FAMILY. AT THE 2024 BEST OF PANAMA, THEY TOOK 3RD PLACE FOR GEISHA NATURAL. THIS CONTINUED THE SUCCESSION OF THEIR TOP-RANKING FINISHES. IN 2023 THEY PLACED IN THE TOP 5 FOR BOTH GEISHA CATEGORIES — 5TH FOR NATURAL AND 2ND FOR WASHED — AS WELL AS 9TH PLACE FOR VARIETALS, AND IN 2022, GEISHA WASHED QUALIFIED IN 16TH PLACE AS AN AUCTION LOT ALONGSIDE A CATUAI IN VARIETALS 14TH PLACE.

THEIR TWO FARMS, PIPIM ESTATES IN ALTO LINO AND MIMA ESTATES IN ALTO QUIEL, ARE STRATEGICALLY SECTIONED BY ELEVATION AND MICROCLIMATE INTO 11 PLOTS. EACH PLOT, PROMISINGLY NAMED AFTER ONE OF EUGENE’S GRANDCHILDREN, IS CULTIVATED WITH A SPECIFIC COFFEE VARIETY, EITHER PANAMA GEISHA, CATUAI, TYPICA, OR CATURRA, BASED ON THE COFFEE’S POTENTIAL TO CAPTURE AND EXPRESS THE FINEST QUALITIES OF TERROIR IN THE CUP.

NOTABLY, MIMA ESTATES IN ALTO QUIEL WAS FEATURED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS A 2023 MUST-VISIT DESTINATION IN THE ANNUAL 52 PLACES TO GO.