I believe that everyone who loves coffee has heard of the famous Geisha. Gesha coffee has become a big success in the country of Panama. It has not only made Panama Gesha a success, but also made Panama coffee worth a high price. In fact, the Geisha variety does not originate from Panama, but is produced in Ethiopia, the hometown of coffee.
As the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia is home to many wild coffee tree species. Even the local Ethiopians cannot distinguish the unknown coffee trees, so the locals refer to the local coffee beans as Ethiopian native species. The Panama Gesha coffee we are familiar with was discovered in a forest called "gesha", and then sent to Kenya for research, and then spread to Uganda, Tanzania, and Costa Rica. The Gesha variety in Panama was introduced from Costa Rica.
Documentary director Adam Overton and his photographer wife Rachel Samuel established their own estate in the village of Geisha near the Geisha Forest in Gori.
Adam followsThe owner of Mule Manor and BOP judgeWillemBoot went on an "exploration" into the forest surrounding the manor. In a jungle magically wrapped by a dense forest, they discovered a variety of wild tree species. What surprised them most was the wild Geisha. Later they learned that this was the Gori Gesha forest, where the Gesha species was first discovered. So they collected seeds from native Gesha trees, screened them, and planted them in Gesha Village. They decided to build the estate here and named it Gesha Village Coffee Estate, a 475-hectare coffee farm located about 12 miles away from the Gori Gesha forest.
There are almost no large estates or estate hierarchies in Ethiopia. After Willem Boot and Adam discovered the Gesha Forest, they decided to move the business model of the Emerald Estate here, and Gesha Village became the first coffee estate in Ethiopia. Their approach is that each batch and a label can be traced back to the detailed information of the beans, and are implemented according to a strict grading system, which are bidding, gold label, red label, green label and Chaka batches.
Precisely because Gesha Village, like Panama Jade Manor, has a strict grading system and is named according to the color of the brand label after arriving in China, many consumers confuse the products of the two manors. Among them, the most frequent ones are the red label Gesha and green label Geisha of the two manors.
Take Green Label as an example. The Emerald Manor Green Label purchased from Front Street is a washed batch. The "Green Label" currently defined by Emerald Manor refers to Geisha coffee grown at an altitude of 1,600-1,800 meters. It mainly comes from the three major farms in the manor, namely Jaramillo, Canas Verdes, and Veil. Different batches, with the classic Panamanian Geisha tone.
The Green Label batch of Gesha Village refers to a single plot from Gesha Village Estate and is a batch of a single variety. Many Ethiopian coffee beans cannot provide detailed variety information, but this green label can be traced back to the planting plot, coffee variety and processing method and other related information. For Gesha Village Green Label, Front Street also purchased a sun-dried batch and roasted it at a medium-light level to highlight its floral and fruity aroma.
Geisha Village Sunbathing
Front Street Coffee’s Geisha Village coffee is sun-dried. First, the floating impurities are removed, and then covered with a thin layer of plastic sheeting on an African-style elevated scaffolding to be sun-dried. When drying on a sun bed, the coffee beans are screened again to select out insect-eaten beans and green-colored coffee beans. Total drying time is 18-30 days. Front Street believes that sun-dried coffee has a distinct sweetness, soft acidity, and a complex fruity flavor.
Friends who are familiar with the story of Gesha should know that there is only one variety of Gesha grown at Emerald Manor, which was once recorded as "geisha T2722"One ofAntifungal varieties. There are two types of Gesha in Gesha Village. One is Gori Gesha. The green label of Qian Street Gesha Village is Gori Gesha. Because it was discovered from the Gori Gesha Forest, it is named after the name of the forest. There is also Gesha 1931 (Gesha 1931), which means that Gesha was discovered1931In 2016, it was the variety of Front Street Gold Label Geisha.
In order to find the difference between the two more clearly,Front Street did a cupping comparison between Panama Green Label Gesha Coffee and Geisha Village Green Label Geisha. First, grind the two green label coffee beans respectively, weighing 11.3 grams each, and pour boiling water with a water temperature of 94 degrees. Within four minutes, you can smell the wet aroma of the coffee powder. After four minutes, you can break the residue, remove the residue and start tasting.
Front Street discovered through comparison that,The similarity between Gesha Village Green Label and Jade Manor Green Label is not high, and they even present completely different styles and tones.Emerald Manor's washed green label Geisha has excellent cleanliness, no odor, and a very smooth taste. The flavor is more of white floral aroma, blueberry, lemon, tea taste, and honey,brown sugarThe sweet aroma is particularly prominent.
Gesha Village’s Green Label Geisha coffee is more inclined to the flavor of candied fruit and raspberry.In addition to the rich berry aroma, it also has the bright sourness of cherry and citrus, and the aftertaste of light floral and black tea lingers in your mouth.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
