Wilford Lamastus El Burro Natural Gesha Panama

We want to start 2026 the same way we plan to continue it, with coffee that feels clear and flavorful. This fresh crop of El Burro Natural Gesha is the first competition coffee of our 2026 lineup, and it also opens our Competition Subscription for the year. You can grab a single box if you’re curious, or sign up for the subscription and get a crazy rebate on one of our favorite coffees we’ve worked with.

Subscribe and save around 30€ on your first box!

This is how we want 2026 to begin.

Farm : El Burro Estate
Producer : Wilford Lamastus
Country : Panama
Region : Boquete, Alto Quiel
Elevation : 1800m
Variety : Gesha
Process : natural
Dried : slow dried on raised beds

”The first time we travelled to Panama we visited with Wilford Lamastus at their newly opened coffee bar in Panama City. He brewed us an aeropress the natural processed El Burro Gesha and it was spectacular! We are starting off 2026 with an amazing start of the Competition Subscription with the fresh crop of the El Burro Natural Gesha by Wilford Lamastus!” / Alexander

 

Taste description: tropical fruits, pineapple & mango, exquisite acidity, juicy body, long and succulent aftertaste.

Story: For four generations and over a hundred years, the Lamastus family has been making its passion for coffee a bonafide family tradition. What started with a man named Robert Lamastus in 1918 has catapulted to an innumerable number of awards, prizes, and accolades under the leadership of his grandson, Wilford Lamastus, Sr., and his great-grandson, our dear friend, Wilford Jr. 

Founded by Robert in 1918, Elida Estate is the flagship farm in the Lamastus fleet, and it is perhaps the most well-known today. But there are two other plantations in the Panamanian highlands which bear the Lamastus family name: Luito Estate, and the origin story of today's black label release, El Burro Estate. 

El Burro is located in the southernmost coffee-growing region of Panama, and part of it sits inside the Baru Volcano National Park (BVNP). This location is important for a few reasons: first, because of its protected status within BVNP, coffees being produced at El Burro come from some of the most undisturbed farmland in all of Panama. It is surrounded by native, cloudy rainforest, and the crop benefits tremendously from the fresh volcanic soil supplied by Volcano Baru. Additionally, the high altitude of the farm amidst this lush backdrop lends itself to particularly advantageous coffee-growing conditions: the climate is very dry during the dry season and very wet during the wet season, causing extended ripening times for El Burro's most beloved lots: Gesha.

The unique terroir in which this coffee grows is heavily responsible for its equally unique - and utterly distinguished - flavor profile. However, it is the slow, steady, and careful way this lot was processed that elevates it above others at our cupping table. In this specific method of natural processing slow dried for 168h on raised beds. This style of fermentation requires a very careful and discerning hand, and the Lamastus family has executed it beautifully.