Panama - Kotowa Coffee Las Brujas Lot 1630

Kotowa Coffee Farms started in 1913, when Alexander Duncan Macintyre, a Canadian immigrant, read about and fell in love with Panama’s cloud-kissed mountains. He moved to the El Salto region of Boquete, Panama, where he named his estate Kotowa, for the Ngäbe-Buglé word for “mountains.”

Four generations later, Ricardo Koyner and his daughter, Victoria are the current stewards of this over 100-year lineage. Managing nine estates, the duo has integrated regenerative farming practices that safeguard the virgin coffee forests their patriarch loved, which has garnered them consistent UNICEF recognition.

Kotowa has been a permanent fixture in the Best of Panama since 2004. Their efforts reached a fever pitch in 2016 when they secured the Best Producer Panama Cup after placing in the finals of every single category. By 2024, Ricardo and Victoria joined the prestigious BOP judging panel while their Geisha Natural secured a stunning 4th place. Their commitment to consistency remained on full display throughout the BOP 2025, with 10th place in the Geisha Washed category and 17th in Geisha Natural.

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 acquired expertise of award-winning emergent producers like the Ricardo Koyner allows them to direct the flavor character of the Panama Geisha towards a seemingly endless diversity of delightfully surprising trajectories through innovative techniques.