El Burro - Natural Gesha Lot E | Panama

Panama — Lamastus Family El Burro Gesha Lot E (Natural)

Tastes Like — 🌸 Florals • 🍓 Raspberry • 🍐 Guava • 🍷 Sangria

DETAILS

• Producer: Lamastus Family
• Farm: El Burro
• Region: Boquete, Panama
• Varietal: Gesha
• Process: Natural
• Lot: Lot E
• Roast: Light
  

INTRO

From the Lamastus family's El Burro farm in Boquete — a natural Gesha lot that is tropical, chocolatey, and gloriously expressive. The family that gave the world its most celebrated Gesha, now turning that same Gesha loose in a natural process and letting it run. In the cup: florals, raspberry, guava, and sangria — a cup that is at once recognisably Panamanian Gesha and unmistakably natural-processed.

THE PRODUCER

The Lamastus family's story in Boquete begins in 1918, when Robert Lamastus founded Elida Estate — a farm that would go on to become one of the most celebrated specialty coffee addresses in the world. In 2004, the family entered their Gesha from Jaramillo farm into the Best of Panama competition and won, setting the highest price ever paid for coffee at auction and introducing a variety that would transform the global specialty coffee industry forever. Today, the estate is managed by Rachel Peterson and her daughter Alexandra — the fourth generation of the family — across several distinct farms including Jaramillo, Cañas Verdes, La Victoria, and El Burro.

El Burro is one of the newer farms in the Lamastus portfolio, with soils and a microclimate shaped by the same cool highland conditions, volcanic geology, and cloud coverage that have made Boquete's Gesha so celebrated worldwide. A natural process brings a different dimension to the same variety — the fruit's own sugars and the extended whole-cherry drying building a tropical, winey expressiveness that the washed lots cannot deliver.

THE PROCESS

The Natural process at El Burro involves:

🍒 Hand-picking — Gesha cherries carefully harvested at peak ripeness 🔍 Sorting — Cherries carefully selected and sorted before drying begins ☀️ Whole-fruit drying — Cherries dried with fruit intact on drying surfaces, allowing natural sugars and aromatic compounds to integrate fully into the bean throughout the extended drying period

The whole-fruit natural drying is the defining step — by leaving the cherry intact throughout, the process amplifies the Gesha's inherent florality and citrus brightness with the fruit's own sugars, building the raspberry and guava tropical depth and sangria-like winey complexity that define Lot E.

THE CUP

A tropical, chocolatey, and gloriously expressive natural Gesha from one of Boquete's most historic and celebrated family estates — florals and raspberry brightness lead, guava tropical sweetness follows, and a sangria-like winey complexity closes with depth and richness. The Lamastus family's Gesha, freed from the confines of the washed process and absolutely revelling in it.

Flavour Notes

🌸 Florals 🍓 Raspberry 🍐 Guava 🍷 Sangria