Panama - Adaura Coffee Geisha Washed Peaberry

Marcus Jovanny Duran founded Adaura Coffee in 2018 to usher their three-generation family farm, Finca Lorayne, into its new era.

Winning 1st Place at the Best of Panama 2024 Geisha Washed category and 7th Place Geisha Natural, Adaura Coffee has not only entered a new era but one set to flourish, as this victory follows a 9th Place finish at the 2022 Best of Panama Varietals Category.

This BOP 2024 win is a momentous achievement for Marcus Jovanny’s family and his team, notably farm leader Edwin Rosas. As such, it is a magnificent and moving tribute to his grandparents — Adalberto and Aura Rosas — for whom Adaura Coffee was named.

Speaking about these awards, Marcus expressed his deep gratitude to the pioneering producers who had blazed the trail for Panama in the world of coffee. It’s because they are the ones who made it possible, through the founding of the SCA Panama and Best of Panama, for the country’s coffee growers to continue onwards a prospering trajectory.

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 Edwin Rosas & Marcus Duran 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.