Pepe Jijón - Ecuador
This is another stellar coffee from our good friend and award winning producer Pepe Jijon. Our third harvest working with Pepe Jijón, we continually love the excellence of his work and the unique, sweet profiles of his coffees. This geisha is very clean with a bright acidity and intense florals.
200G
- Variety: Geisha
- Country: Ecuador
- Region: Imbabura
- Process: Wave Washed
- Altitude: 1515 MASL
- Harvest: July 2024
- Producer: Pepe Jijón
- Farm: Finca Soledad
- Roast Level: Light
In the cup
We taste a vibrant profile of intense florals and citrus. In the cup we get bergamot and jasmine with a bright lemonade like acidity and a juicy clean finish. This coffee has a light body.
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About The Producer
Pepe Jijon is an award winning producer and a world famous coffee farmer. His farm, Finca Soledad, is a community-oriented project where Pepe and his family support and employ single mothers who have been abandoned by their husbands. Pepe only grows Typica Mejorada, Geisha and Sydra. The farm is very small with limited production so we are very lucky and thankful to have some of his coffee this year.
Processing
'Wave' is referencing a temperature wave, going from higher temperature to lower temperature, utilizing fermentation tanks and refrigerators, in a sustained way that keeps the embryo alive. This coffee underwent a 24 hour fermentation in tank followed by washing and 40+ days of drying in Finca Soledad's dark room and shaded patios.
Variety
This variety was originally collected from coffee forests in Ethiopia in the 1930s. From there, it was sent to the Lyamungu research station in Tanzania, and then brought to Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) in Central America in the 1953, where it was logged as accession T2722. It was distributed throughout Panama via CATIE in the 1960s after it had been recognized for tolerance to coffee leaf rust. However, the plant's branches were brittle and not favored by farmers so it was not widely planted. The coffee came to prominence in 2005 when the Peterson family of Boquete, Panama, entered it into the "Best of Panama" competition and auction. It received exceptionally high marks and broke the then-record for green coffee auction prices, selling for over $20/pound.There is significant confusion about Geisha because there are multiple genetically distinct plant types that have been referred to as Geisha, many of which share similar geographic origins in Ethiopia. Recent genetic diversity analyses conducted by World Coffee Research confirm that Panamanian Geisha descendent from T2722 is distinct and uniform. It is associated with extremely high cup quality when the plants are managed well at high altitude, and is known for its delicate floral, jasmine, and peach-like aromas.
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