Finca Auromar Firestone Washed Gesha, Panama

Producer: Roberto Brenes / Auromar Family
Farm: Auromar Finca La Aurora
Location: Piedra Candela, Volcan, Chiriqui, Panama
Variety: Gesha
Process: Washed
Altitude: 1,770 masl

Taste description:  Floral notes of cherry blossom. In this cup you’ll find notes of mandarine candy, white grapes and an amazing finish of yuzu and honey sweetness that lingers.

THE FARM AND PRODUCER

Nestled within a highland tropical forest regarded as a natural reserve in Candela, Chiriquí, Panama — Finca Auromar, established and led by triathlete and coffee producer Roberto Brenes, is the provenance of the Best of Panama 1st Place Geisha Washed lot Firestone in 2022.

This accolade was the third time Geisha produced by Roberto and his family won the highest award at the Best of Panama, the previous wins being in 2013 and 2016 for Geisha Washed Ironman lots, crowning years of consistently placing among the top auction lots in the Best of Panama competition.

Finca Auromar has maintained a laudable standing in the Best of Panama since 2013. They claimed 9th place in the Geisha Washed category in 2024 and, in 2023, 12th place in Geisha Washed and 15th in Geisha Natural.

As both a Panama Geisha producer and an Ironman athlete, Roberto has always held a vision of Finca Auromar for the long game—pushing boundaries of post-harvest processing, chasing new frontiers of coffee excellence, and contributing to the national legacy of matchless coffees characterized by exceptional quality, reinforcing its hard-earned prestige among the global specialty coffee community.

The Auromar Estate is a Brenes-Eleta family initiative, established to produce high-quality Geishas and other premium Arabica coffees in an eco-friendly and sustainable environment.

Auromar’s Finca La Aurora spans 30.5 hectares, with 14.5 hectares allocated for coffee cultivation in the lower elevations and the remaining 16 hectares preserved as a pristine highland tropical forest.

The cultivated area is designed to balance coffee production with forest conservation. Shade is provided by native tree species and high-altitude Hass avocado trees, creating a stable microclimate with minimal temperature fluctuations. 
 
The coffee cherries benefit from low humidity between December and January and the dry, sunny summer that lasts until mid-April. This combination of forest cover, shade, and late harvest produces limited-supply, highly complex coffee beans each season.

Auromar employs many workers from the Ngobe-Bugle indigenous group, offering them above-average wages and providing education, literacy, and technical training for adults, as well as after-school activities for their children. Since its inception, Auromar has been committed to improving working and living conditions for its employees. Auromar is a child labor-free enterprise.

THE COFFEE AND THE PROCESS

Panama Geisha is a rare, delicate, and complex variety well-loved for its sweet florality and citrus highlights. Since its debut win at the Best of Panama auction in 2004, it has kept specialty coffee lovers everywhere captivated by its endless possibilities, delicacy, complexity, and clarity of flavors.

As such, it is often showcased on coffee competition stages by a great number of coffee champions, and it also continues to fetch the highest prices.

While a coffee’s truest intrinsic qualities are still largely believed to be showcased best by traditional washed processing due to the demucilaging, washing, and scrubbing steps removing all traces of fruit from the bean, the expertise of seasoned and passionate producers like Roberto Brenes allows them to direct the flavor character of the Panama Gesha towards a seemingly endless diversity of delightfully surprising trajectories.

They do this through the purposeful implementation of traditional methods like the natural and honey processes, as well as intentional and innovative processing styles.

Read more here:

https://www.auromarpanama.com/the-project

Always fresh: This item contains 100 grams or 1kg of whole beans, roasted, packed, and shipped on demand for maximum freshness.