Panama - Hacienda Barbara, Natural Anaerobic Lot 18

Hacienda Barbara, owned by the Rogers Family & guided by Hunter Tedman’s expertise as a seasoned, professional agronomist & two-term president of the SCA Panama, has produced top-ranking Geisha and Varietals at the Best of Panama in its two-decade history.

For Hunter, accolades in coffee are more about honoring the land, the human effort, & the history that make each harvest possible and each coffee exceptional. His thorough approach from cultivation to post-harvest processing, & the farm maintenance requisites in between harvest seasons, reflects a steadfast commitment to sustainably achieving excellence while preserving the natural environment that enables it. With 50% of Hacienda Barbara's land preserved as protected forest, it thrives as both a premium coffee estate and a healthy habitat for rich biodiversity.

Beyond Hacienda Barbara, Hunter’s work and passion extend to his own regenerative agricultural venture, Black Moon Farm, which produced the 1st Place Auction Lot in the 2024 Best of Panama Varietals category, after placing 2nd in 2023.

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 Rogers Family/Hunter Tedman allows them to direct the flavor character of the Panama Geisha 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.