Catuai
Catuai is a hybrid of Caturra and Mundo Novo, valued for its productivity and compact stature. It delivers a balanced, sweet cup and is common in Panama's mid-elevation farms.
Botanical and breeding background sourced below; sensory claims are attributed per seller.
Documented Panama records
A workhorse variety at many Panama estates: Café Suárez grows and sells Catuai in Alto Quiel; Eleta Estate's first coffee lot (1995) was Catuai; La Huella's naturals and honeys are Catuai; Altieri's lots reach US roasters (Klatch's Rola Catuai Natural); Savage Coffees offers a washed Catuai.
- ·Café Suárez Catuai Tradicional — producer-direct ($6–$17.99)
- ·Eleta Estate — first coffee lot was Catuai (1995)
- ·La Huella Panama Natural / Black Honey (Catuai, €30)
- ·Altieri Rola Catuai Natural — Klatch Coffee ($29.95, in stock)
- ·Savage Coffees Catuai | Washed (archived, sold out)
Catuai coffees (6)
5 currently available. Sellers' exact product titles are preserved; aliases are normalized here for discovery.

Panama Miel (La Huella, 250 g)

Panama Black Honey (La Huella)

Panama Natural (La Huella)

Klatch Panama Altieri Rola Catuai Natural (310 g)

Café Suarez — Catuai Tradicional (PanamaGoods offer)

Catuai | Washed (Savage Coffees)
Producers growing Catuai

La Huella Coffee
Panamanian farm brand whose Gesha and Catuai lots come from Cañas Verdes in Boquete at 1,500–1,600 masl, dried on African raised beds. Roasted and green coffee is sold through its own UK-facing online shop.

Café Suarez
A Boquete family of coffee growers and rosters with more than 100 years of tradition — producer labeling dates the family business to 1900 in Alto Quiel, a prized sub-region above Boquete town. Café Suarez sells its own roasted coffee, including single-origin Geisha and a Geisha + Catuai blend, through its official online shop and Panamanian retailers.
Finca Lérida
Founded in 1917 by Norwegian engineer Tollef Bache Mönniche — who had helped design the Panama Canal's emergency gates — Finca Lérida is one of Panama's oldest coffee estates and today combines a 900-acre working farm with a boutique hotel. In 1929, Mönniche exported the first shipment of Panamanian coffee to Germany; the estate's original wet mill and his patented siphon for separating good beans from damaged ones are still in use. The farm took 1st place in Geisha Natural at Best of Panama 2026 with 95.63 points.
Finca El Pergamino
A family farm high in the Tierras Altas district of Chiriquí, owned and worked by producer Yaneth de Lucich on rich volcanic soil surrounded by dense forest. At Best of Panama 2026 its washed Geisha took 2nd place in the Geisha Washed category with 96.00 points — a quarter point behind the winner and ahead of Hacienda La Esmeralda — announcing El Pergamino as one of Panama's most exciting newer producers.
Altieri Specialty Coffee
A family operation based in the Alto Quiel highlands above Boquete, on the flanks of Volcán Barú, growing Geisha, Typica, and Catuai. The Altieri family won the Varietals category at Best of Panama 2026 with 93.63 points — ahead of Hacienda La Esmeralda — and has placed in the competition multiple times since 2014. Coffee from their Mima Estate is roasted and sold by retailers in Panama and abroad.
Don Pachi Estate
Don Pachi Estate is a Boquete farm founded in 1873 and widely described as Panama's oldest coffee farm. Don Pachi Serracín is credited with bringing the Geisha variety to Panama from CATIE in Costa Rica in 1963, seeking rust-resistant varieties; his son Francisco is described as having detected its distinctive cup character in 2003. The estate grows one of Panama's widest variety ranges, from Typica and Bourbon to Geisha and Java, between 1,350 and 1,600 m. Roasted Don Pachi lots are sold in Panama through Café & Aroma.
Janson Coffee Farm
Janson Coffee Farm is a family estate in Volcán, Chiriquí. Janson Farms began in 1926 when Swedish immigrant Carl Axel Janson settled in Volcán, and the family later formally founded Janson Coffee. The farm grows green-tip Geisha, Catuai, Caturra and Pacamara, combining updated technology with artisanal drying, and runs worker welfare programs including housing, a food and clothing cooperative, healthcare and educational funding. It operates a coffee shop and guided tours with views of Volcán Barú, and has competed repeatedly in Best of Panama.
Finca Sophia
ProfessionalFinca Sophia is an experimental farm founded in 2008 and planted with Geisha at extreme altitude — grown at 2,130 meters — under the stewardship of Willem Boot, David Pohl and Kelly Hartmann. The entire harvest is released each year as one whole-harvest auction offering, with pre-registration each June, alongside green-coffee inquiries taken through the farm's contact form. Discoveries include the Guayabita and Enigma varieties.
Hacienda La Esmeralda
PremiumHacienda La Esmeralda is the Boquete producer that put Panama Geisha on the world map: the variety's celebrated jasmine-and-stone-fruit character was discovered on its farms in 2004. The estate has since produced record-breaking microlots and has held its own annual online auction every year since 2007. Collections include Esmeralda Auction, Esmeralda Special (Geisha from above 1,950 m), Esmeralda Nano, Private Collection, Diamond Mountain (Catuai), and an exotic varietal range including SL-34, Laurina and Pacamara, plus cascara.
Hartmann Family
ProfessionalFinca Hartmann is a third-generation family enterprise in Santa Clara, Renacimiento, Chiriquí. The property consists of two farm sections — Santa Clara Finca Hartmann and the smaller Palo Verde section — where the family grows volume varieties including Caturra, Catuai and Pacamara alongside shaded, forest-grown lots. Its coffee is roasted and sold internationally by specialty roasters; no official farm website is currently verifiable.