Panama - Mi Finquita, Reserve Lot CIMA

Affectionately named My Little Farm by Ratibor Jr. and Tessie Hartmann, the consistently prolific Best of Panama auction lot producers in the famed Finca Hartmann lineage, Mi Finquita belongs to an historic portfolio of acclaimed estates, alongside Guarumo Farm, Ojo de Agua, and Santa Clara as well as the family’s latest projects, Hartmann Great Reserve and their daughter, Yessie Hartmann’s Gato Grande.

Ratibor Jr. and Tessie’s washed Geisha, Euphoria, placed 14th in the 2024 Best of Panama under the Hartmann Great Reserve banner, while Mi Finquita clinched 4th Place Geisha Natural and 11th Place Geisha Washed at the 2023 Best of Panama, as well as 4th Place Geisha Washed in 2022.

Instilled with a deep love for the lands of Tierras Altas and the wondrous coffees they yield, Ratibor Jr. and Tessie sustain and strengthen the agricultural legacy begun by patriarch Alois Hartmann in the earlier 1900s and developed by his son, Ratibor Sr. since the 1970s, by continuing to cultivate exceptional coffee with a philosophy rooted in biodiversity, ecological stewardship, and a profound respect for nature.

Beyond their own prospering ventures, Ratibor Jr. and Tessie are generous mentors to a new generation of producers, sharing their expertise with emerging estates, to bolster the endurance and evolution of Panama’s premier stature in the global coffee landscape.

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 Tessie & Ratibor Hartmann 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.