PANAMA

Buenos días! Welcome to our Gesha Coffee Series!

Gesha also widely (and wrongly referred to as geisha) is a Coffea Arabica variety that traces its roots to the mountainous Gesha region of southwestern Ethiopia, identified in the 1930s.

It’s claimed that a British Consul collected and planted the sample of this variety seeds in Tanzania and Costa Rica around 1936 with cultivation spreading to Panama in the 1960s, the main interest being the coffee’s tolerance to several common diseases. Although, as established, do not originate from Panama, the variety of beans are often referred to as Panama Gesha Coffee beans because of how they turned into a staple among farmers across the country.

Since 2004, the coffee rose to prominence and continues to win outstanding contests especially when it received exceptionally high marks and broke the then-record for green coffee auction prices in 2004 Best of Panama competition and auction.

2nd Mile Specialty is proud to present to you the Janson Gesha Coffee, all the way from the famed Janson Coffee Farm in Panama - winner of the Second place prize - Geisha coffee in the Best of Panama 2013. The coffee plantations are located on the Talamanca mountain range of westernmost Panama, NorthWest of the Baru Volcano, the same mountain of the La Amistad International Park (Unesco World Heritage site). The Janson coffee farm is actually run by the first and second generation of Janson family members.

The rich volcanic soil and unique microclimate combined with optimal care of the geisha plants help us produce coffee berries which followed by a conscious selection and process results on high-quality coffee. All of the premium coffees go through traditional drying preparations plus hand selection.

Constantly focusing on improving quality, they have earned several BOP awards with the coffee - being always among the best, on the semifinal and final tables of the Best of Panama. In 2019 their Gesha Natural Lot from Los Alpes received the second place on the Best of Panama with an average score of 94, having received 95 and above by 8 international judges. In Best of Panama 2020, they earned the First Place for the Pacamara category.

We are grateful for the trust from Janson Family and are enthusiastically honoured to support in supplying their wonderful coffee to the amazing Asia coffee community as one of their distributors in Asia.