PANAMA, LOS LAJONES ESTATE
Boquete, Chiriqui
Organic and Shade-Grown

Los Lajones is grown in Panama's Boquete region at the dizzying altitude of 6,500 feet by our friend Graciano Cruz, a pioneering organic agronomist who has championed the organic coffee movement throughout Central America and most recently, Ethiopia. At this year's Best of Panama competition, Phil Anacker visited with Graciano to learn more about his unconventional approach to growing and processing coffee. In addition to his prize-winning wet-processed coffee, Graciano has recently been experimenting with dry and semi-dry processed lots as well. We tried the three different coffees and were very impressed with each one, albeit for different reasons. We decided to buy all three of them. This is a unique opportunity to try one coffee, harvested from Caturra and Catuai trees on the same farm, but processed three different ways.

The Los Lajones Estate wet-processed coffee is medium roasted to bring out its clean and bright highlights. Medium-bodied with notes of peach and a floral-toned finish. Clean and delicate.

The Los Lajones "Honey Bean" is a pulped natural coffee dried on Ethiopian-style drying beds (just like our Costa Rica Lomas al Rio Honey Coffee). Fuller-bodied than the wet-processed, and with similar ripe peach and floral notes, but with distinct caramel in the finish. Limited supply.

The full natural coffee from Los Lajones is truly unique: a high grown Panama harvested and dried in full cherry on Ethiopian-style beds. The result is intense ripe berry fruit and gingerbread. Similar (but better) than the best Yemen coffees. Very limited supply.

Wet Process: $13.95 (whole bean only)

SOLD OUT Pulped Natural ("Honey process"): $16.95 (whole bean only)

SOLD OUT Full Natural: $18.95 (roasted and shipped whole bean on Mondays only)