On August 7, coffee companies celebrated the Best of Panamá 2024 Auction, highlighting some of the nation's top producers and their beans ... the Lamastus family and Panama, we cannot express ...

Panama has quietly staked its claim as a force to be reckoned with thanks to growing the renowned Geisha coffee bean, which can sell for over $1,000 per pound. This coffee originally hailed from ...

However, it wasn't until 2004, when Hacienda La Esmeralda brought the beans to the Best of Panama coffee auction that taste evaluators got their first sip and fell in love. Like any rare ...

“As a professional and well-trained taster, I cannot say Panama’s coffee is the best, but it’s special,” says Wilford Lamastus, Jr., a multi-generational owner of Lamastus Family Estates.

(Photo: Xinhua) A staff member of Lamastus Estate displays Geisha coffee beans in the western Panamanian city of Boquete, Aug. 26, 2024. Panama's Geisha coffee, which has spearheaded the country's ...

A worker sorts coffee beans at the Lamastus Family Estate farm ... alliance via Getty Images The top of Volcán Barú in western Panama is one of the few places in the world where it is possible ...

“It’s hard to grow, it tastes like tea, and it’s the most expensive coffee in the world,” says Cesar Caballero, a guide at Finca Lérida, a lodge and coffee plantation in Panama’s ...

Somewhere around 1,200 metres above sea level near the misty, green highland town of Boquete in the north of Panama ... and producing high-quality coffee beans. The cooler climate and lush ...