Variety

Geisha

Origin: Ethiopia (Gori Gesha forest)

Geisha (or Gesha) is the most celebrated coffee variety in Panama and arguably the world. Originally from Ethiopia, it was brought to Central America in the 1950s. Panama Geisha is renowned for its intense floral aromatics, jasmine, bergamot, and tea-like cup, and commands the highest auction prices in coffee.

Botanical and breeding background sourced below; sensory claims are attributed per seller.

Breeding and selection history
Coffee seed was collected from the forests around the town of Gesha in southwestern Ethiopia in 1931, kept through Kenyan and Tanzanian collections, and passed to CATIE in Costa Rica in 1953. Pachi Serracín brought it to Boquete, Panama in 1963. The Peterson family at Hacienda La Esmeralda rediscovered it growing in their fields, harvested it separately, and entered it in the 2004 Best of Panama competition — where it overwhelmed the jury and reset specialty-coffee pricing worldwide.
Accepted names and aliases
Geisha and Gesha are the same variety; product titles use both spellings, and this catalog preserves each seller's exact title.
Characteristics
Tall plant, elongated leaves, sparse cherry, low yield
Typical flavor (attributed)
Sellers consistently attribute jasmine, bergamot and stone/tropical fruit — attributed per seller on each coffee record, never guaranteed.
Seller-attributed descriptors — never a guarantee from the variety name.
Labeling ambiguities
Beware listings that say only 'Panama Geisha' with no producer — the variety's value is farm-specific. Cup scores appear only where a named jury or seller assigned them.

Documented Panama records

Panama's flagship variety, grown by essentially every specialty estate in this database — Hacienda La Esmeralda, Lamastus Family Estates (Elida), Kotowa, Finca Hartmann, Finca Sophia (2,130 m), Ninety Plus, La Huella, Altieri, Auromar, and Savage Coffees.

  • ·Hacienda La Esmeralda — record-setting Best of Panama lots
  • ·Lamastus Family Estates — Elida Geisha lots, private auction
  • ·Finca Sophia — Geisha at 2,130 m, whole-harvest release
  • ·Ninety Plus — Perci, Lycello and the named line
  • ·Savage Coffees — a dozen Geisha process lots (Finca Deborah / Iris Estate)

Geisha coffees (48)

23 currently available. Sellers' exact product titles are preserved; aliases are normalized here for discovery.

Coffee beans and brewing scene

Echo | Finca Deborah (Savage Coffees)

Finca Deborah
GeishaExperimental
$28
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Interstellar | Yeast Natural Process Geisha (Savage Coffees)

Iris Estate
GeishaNatural
$27
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Horizon | Hybrid Yeast Inoculation (Savage Coffees)

Savage Coffees
GeishaCarbonic Maceration
$35
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Enigma | Extended Natural Carbonic Macerated Process (Savage Coffees)

Iris Estate
GeishaCarbonic Maceration
$37
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Geisha N97 (La Huella, roasted, 100 g)

La Huella Coffee
GeishaNatural
€30
100 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Illumination | Washed Carbonic Macerated (Savage Coffees)

Savage Coffees
GeishaCarbonic Maceration
$28
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Afterglow | Classic Natural Geisha (Savage Coffees)

Finca Deborah
GeishaNatural
$23
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Elida Geisha Natural ASD (LF Coffee)

Lamastus Family Estates · Boquete
GeishaNatural (ASD)
€32.5
125 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Terroir (La Huella)

La Huella Coffee · Boquete
GeishaNatural
€30
100 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Geisha (La Huella)

La Huella Coffee · Boquete
GeishaHoney
€30
100 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Café Duran Geisha

Café Durán · Volcán
Geisha
$62
200 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Janson Family Geisha (PanamaGoods offer)

Janson Coffee Farm
Geisha
$35.88
200 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Finca Lerida Geisha (PanamaGoods offer)

Finca Lérida
Geisha
$35.88
250 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Ninety Plus Pink Blossom (7-pack)

Ninety Plus
Geisha
$230
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Ninety Plus Private 227 (7-pack)

Ninety Plus
Geisha
$230
In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

La Huella Panama Geisha #16 (100 g)

La Huella Coffee · Boquete
GeishaHoney
€40
100 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Kotowa Coffee — Geisha Las Brujas Natural (227 g)

Kotowa Coffee
GeishaNatural
$93.5
227 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Boutet Natural Gesha (Sigma Coffee UK offer)

La Victoria Estate · Boquete
GeishaNatural
£24
340 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Don Julian Geisha Natural

Hacienda Don Julian · Boquete
GeishaNatural
$39.95
170 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Café Suarez Blend Geisha + Catuai

Café Suarez · Boquete
Geisha + Catuai (blend)Washed
$12
200 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Carmen Estate Geisha

Carmen Estate · Volcán
Geisha
$67
225 g · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Esmeralda Private Collection Geisha Natural (Jaramillo)

Hacienda La Esmeralda · Boquete
GeishaNatural
$64.17
1 lb (green) · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Finca Sophia Auction FSA-06 Geisha Natural

Finca Sophia
GeishaNatural
RM400
15 g bottle · In stock
Buy
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Finca Hartmann Chicho Gallo (Cherry Lab, Tokyo)

Finca Hartmann
Geisha
¥54810
Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Esmeralda Grand Reserve (Sea Island Coffee)

Hacienda La Esmeralda
Geisha
$193
125 g (from; 250 g $345 · 500 g $657 · 1 kg $1,247) · Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Klatch Panama Altieri Luci Geisha (Pearl Reserve)

Altieri Specialty Coffee
GeishaASD
See seller for price
Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Esmeralda Private Collection Geisha (Sea Island Coffee)

Hacienda La Esmeralda
Geisha
$113
125 g (from; 250 g $206 · 500 g $392 · 1 kg $737) · Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Sea Island Panama Hartmann Estate Geisha

Hartmann Family
Geisha
$60
125 g (from; 250 g $109 · 500 g $205 · 1 kg $388) · Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Kotowa Geisha Gourmet

Kotowa Coffee · Boquete
Geisha
$53
Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Café Suarez Geisha

Café Suarez · Boquete
Geisha
$44
Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Luito Geisha Natural (Lamastus)

Lamastus Family Estates · Boquete
GeishaNatural
See seller for price
100 g · Listed at seller
View at seller
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Ninety Plus Juliette

Ninety Plus · Volcán
GeishaWashed
$60
Coming soon
Details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Ninety Plus Perci

Ninety Plus · Volcán
GeishaNatural
$45
Coming soon
Details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Elida Washed Gesha (Colonna '020')

Lamastus Family Estates · Boquete
GeishaWashed
See seller for price
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Geisha Natural (Bongen Coffee)

Hacienda La Esmeralda
GeishaNatural
¥9100
100 g · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Panama Geisha (Bongen Coffee, washed)

Hacienda La Esmeralda
GeishaWashed
¥8900
100 g · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Bongen Panama Geisha (1 kg, Esmeralda)

Hacienda La Esmeralda
GeishaWashed
¥85000
1 kg (2 × 500 g) · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Los Cenizos Geisha Honey 2025

Finca Los Cenizos · Tierras Altas
GeishaHoney
See seller for price
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Finca Sophia Geisha Washed FS9025 & FS9325 (2025)

Finca Sophia · Volcán
GeishaWashed
See seller for price
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Hacienda La Esmeralda Buena Vista Gesha

Hacienda La Esmeralda · Boquete
GeishaWashed
See seller for price
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Boutet Natural Gesha

La Victoria Estate · Boquete
GeishaNatural
See seller for price
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

La Victoria ASD Gesha

La Victoria Estate · Boquete
GeishaAnaerobic (ASD)
$28
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Finca El Pergamino Geisha Washed

Finca El Pergamino · Tierras Altas
GeishaWashed
$64
250 g · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Los Lajones Gesha (Anaerobic Washed)

Los Lajones Estate · Boquete
GeishaAnaerobic Washed
€42
150 g · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Janson Farms Geisha (Green, Volcán Highlands)

Janson Coffee Farm · Volcán
GeishaWashed
$47.15
1 lb (green, GrainPro) · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Esmeralda Special Geisha Microlot Assortment (Roasted)

Hacienda La Esmeralda · Boquete
Geisha
$220
Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Finca Lérida Geisha (Washed)

Finca Lérida · Boquete
GeishaWashed
$59
250 g · Sold out
View details
Coffee beans and brewing scene

Elida Estate Geisha Washed — Lot Torre

Lamastus Family Estates · Boquete
GeishaWashed
$69
120 g · Sold out
View details

Producers growing Geisha

Finca Auromar
Verified

Finca Auromar

Jurutungo Candela, Volcán · 1,600 m

Roberto Brenes' farm on steep slopes above Volcán — a former head of the Panamanian stock exchange who farms his wife's family land. Roastmasters, whose buyer judges at Best of Panama, has bought Auromar's Geisha and Pacamara across multiple seasons; the 2025-26 Pacamara Natural was in stock as green coffee at $15.48/lb.

GeishaPacamara
Iris Estate
Verified

Iris Estate

Panama highlands ·

Savage Coffees' estate behind its most process-forward Geisha lots — the extended natural carbonic maceration 'Enigma' and the yeast-inoculated 'Interstellar'.

Geisha
La Huella Coffee
Verified

La Huella Coffee

Boquete · 1,500–1,600 masl

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.

GeishaCatuai
La Victoria Estate
Verified

La Victoria Estate

Boquete ·

Boquete estate whose Geisha lots — including anaerobic (ASD) and natural processed coffees — have been featured by US roaster Black & White Coffee Roasters, which attributes its Boutet Natural Gesha lot to La Victoria Estate. Lots rotate seasonally; recent lots were sold out at the roaster when checked.

Geisha
Hacienda Don Julian
Verified

Hacienda Don Julian

Boquete · 1,600–2,000 masl

Boquete estate established in 1999, owned and led by Korean American producer Heakyung Kang Burneskis, who co-founded the farm with her late husband Dr. Richard D. Burneskis and has run it since 2004. US roaster Klatch Coffee sells the farm's natural Geisha in its Pearl Reserve line.

Geisha
Longboard Specialty Coffee
Verified

Longboard Specialty Coffee

Professional
Boquete ·

Micro-producer of award-winning organic Geisha coffee farming three small plots in Boquete — Misty Mountain, Windy Ridge and Fennario. Longboard grows, harvests, processes and roasts by hand under a forest-first philosophy it calls 'Wildynamic'. Its first private Geisha auction set records, and a second private auction of fourteen Misty Mountain Geisha lots (plus two peaberry lots) is scheduled for October 2026.

Geisha
Café Suarez
Verified

Café Suarez

Boquete · ~1,685 masl (5,525 ft, per producer labeling)

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.

GeishaCatuai
Finca Los Cenizos
Verified

Finca Los Cenizos

Tierras Altas · 1,800–2,200 masl

Family farm in Cerro Punta owned and led by Estela Pitti, a first-generation coffee producer who purchased the farm in 2008. Los Cenizos grows some of the highest-elevation Geisha in Panama and has produced Best of Panama auction lots since 2019. Its lots have been sold by international roasters including Sey Coffee (USA) and Archers Coffee (Hong Kong) in 2024–2025.

Geisha
Los Lajones Estate
Verified

Los Lajones Estate

Boquete · 1,950–2,000 m

Producer Graciano Cruz's estate sits adjacent to Volcán Barú National Park, where he has pioneered anaerobic processing — two-stage anaerobic fermentation, on-farm pulping, water recycling, and slow drying on African beds — alongside a dedication to conservation. The farm has placed multiple times at Best of Panama, including 7th place for a washed Gesha in 2025, and its lots are sold by leading specialty roasters in Europe.

Geisha
Finca El Pergamino
Verified

Finca El Pergamino

Tierras Altas · 1,800–2,000 m

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.

GeishaCatuai
Finca La Mula
Verified

Finca La Mula

Boquete ·

A small Geisha farm owned by Dutch-born coffee professional Willem Boot, located near the Boquete Valley. Its lots have been roasted and reviewed internationally — including by JBC Coffee Roasters via Coffee Review — and MAME Coffee has offered a Finca La Mula Geisha Natural Anaerobic in its subscription lineup.

Geisha
Altieri Specialty Coffee
Verified

Altieri Specialty Coffee

Boquete ·

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.

GeishaTypicaCatuai
Carmen Estate
Verified

Carmen Estate

Volcán · 1,800 m

A third-generation family estate in the Volcán valley operated by the Franceschi family, with Carlos Aguilera Franceschi as managing director. Growing at around 1,800 meters on volcanic soil under rainforest shade, Carmen Estate is one of Panama's most consistent competition producers: its washed Geisha took first place in its category at Best of Panama 2023 and sold for US$10,005 per kilogram at auction, and importer Sucafina lists its fully washed Caturra among its offerings.

CaturraGeisha
Finca Lérida
Verified

Finca Lérida

Boquete · 1,700 m

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.

GeishaCatuai
Finca Deborah
Verified

Finca Deborah

Volcán · 1,900+ m

One of Panama's highest and most remote coffee farms, Finca Deborah grows shade-grown Geisha at 1,900+ meters in the mountains of Volcán, shrouded in dense cloud cover for most of the year. The estate describes its mission as cultivating, processing, and delivering only the highest quality coffee: cherries are hand-picked and only the ripest are processed. The farm is fully powered by a solar generation system that supplies the beneficio and the workers' quarters.

Geisha
Janson Coffee Farm
Verified

Janson Coffee Farm

Volcán ·

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.

GeishaCatuaiCaturra
Don Pachi Estate
Verified

Don Pachi Estate

Boquete · 1,350–1,600 m

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.

GeishaTypicaBourbon
Finca Sophia
Verified

Finca Sophia

Professional
Tierras Altas · 2,130 m

Finca 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.

GeishaCatuaiGuayabita
Ninety Plus
Verified Claimed

Ninety Plus

Premium
Volcán ·

Ninety Plus produces coffee on two estates on the slopes of Volcán Barú: Gesha Estates (acquired 2009; 200 hectares of reforested former cattle land planted with shade-grown gesha under forest canopy) and Barú Estates (acquired 2019; 270 hectares). Its named lots include Perci — credited as the first naturally processed gesha in Panama — alongside Juliette, Lycello, Sillvia, Tigre, Ruby, Carmo and Yuzo, sold roasted through its own store.

GeishaEthiopian heirloom
Hacienda La Esmeralda
Verified Claimed

Hacienda La Esmeralda

Premium
Boquete ·

Hacienda 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.

GeishaCatuaiSL-34

Sources

Facts reviewed 2026-10-01← All varieties