{"product_id":"peru-amazonas-el-colibri-gesha-natural","title":"Peru Amazonas El Colibri Gesha Natural","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting Note:  Mulberry | Tangerine | Honey | Peach | Hint of Wine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"height: 39.2px;\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.6px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 22%; text-align: left; height: 19.6px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVarietal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 25.3155%; text-align: left; height: 19.6px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProcessing Method\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 26.6845%; text-align: left; height: 19.6px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Altitude\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 19.6px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 22%; text-align: left; height: 19.6px;\"\u003eGesha\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 25.3155%; text-align: left; height: 19.6px;\"\u003eRiver Natural\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 26.6845%; text-align: left; height: 19.6px;\"\u003e1850m\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e  200g\/1kg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrewing Recommendation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Filter Brews \/ Modern Espresso \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTangerine leads this \u003cstrong\u003ePeru Amazonas El Colibri Gesha Natural\u003c\/strong\u003e: a bright, fruit-forward natural-process cup carrying mulberry, honey, peach and a hint of wine behind the citrus. It's grown at \u003cstrong\u003e1850m\u003c\/strong\u003e in the \u003cstrong\u003eAmazonas\u003c\/strong\u003e highlands of northern Peru, on El Colibri, the farm that placed #12 in Peru's 2023 Cup of Excellence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe farm\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEl Colibri sits in \u003cstrong\u003eAmazonas\u003c\/strong\u003e, the emerging specialty region of northern Peru where the Andes start tipping into rainforest. This isn't a name borrowed for a bag: the estate placed \u003cstrong\u003etwelfth in Peru's 2023 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/farmdirectory.cupofexcellence.org\/listing\/12-el-colibri-peru-2023\/\"\u003eCup of Excellence\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, the national competition that ranks a country's best lots by blind jury score. When a farm places that high, a panel of independent judges has already vouched for the cup without knowing whose coffee they were tasting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe varietal\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/varieties.worldcoffeeresearch.org\/varieties\/geisha-panama\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGesha\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (also spelled Geisha) is the cup the whole specialty world chases, with a backstory to match. It's an Ethiopian landrace collected from Ethiopia's coffee forests in the 1930s, which travelled to Tanzania's Lyamungu research station and on to CATIE in Central America in 1953, where it was filed under accession number T2722. It stayed a research curiosity until the Peterson family entered it at Panama's Best of Panama in 2005, where it sold for over $20 a pound and set an auction record. Think of it as the variety that sat quietly in a seed bank for fifty years, then rewrote coffee's price ceiling overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy Gesha is a gamble to grow\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's the catch that makes this lot notable: Gesha is genuinely hard to farm. The plant is tall and low-yielding, so a grower harvests far less per tree than a workhorse variety, and it only rewards you with its famous cup when it's grown high, above roughly 1600m. It also carries only intermediate resistance to coffee leaf rust and a soft spot for nematodes, so it asks for patience and the right altitude. El Colibri's \u003cstrong\u003e1850m\u003c\/strong\u003e sits comfortably in that sweet spot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow it's processed\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a \u003cstrong\u003enatural\u003c\/strong\u003e, or dry-process, coffee: the whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on, letting the bean soak up sweetness and that wine-like depth. El Colibri takes it further with a method it calls \u003cstrong\u003eRiver Natural\u003c\/strong\u003e, where the cherries are fermented anaerobically (sealed away from oxygen) in flowing river water that keeps the temperature low. Cool, slow fermentation is the trick to a clean cup, because gentle temperatures hold back the boozy, funky off-notes a runaway warm ferment can throw. The cherries are then sun-dried to export standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIn the cup\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpect \u003cstrong\u003etangerine\u003c\/strong\u003e out front, bright and lifted, with \u003cstrong\u003emulberry, honey and peach\u003c\/strong\u003e filling in underneath and a hint of wine on the finish. If you know the sweet-sour pop of a ripe limau madu, that's the kind of citrus lift leading the glass. It's a sweet, fruit-forward natural that wears its provenance on its sleeve, and every cup tells a story worth following back to one Amazonas hillside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdd a bag to your cart and give this tangerine-bright Gesha the unhurried pour-over it deserves, roasted fresh in Subang Jaya for the discerning cup.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Crackpots Coffee Roaster","offers":[{"title":"200g","offer_id":47683781853362,"sku":"PAECGN-26-01-200G","price":123.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true},{"title":"1kg","offer_id":47683781886130,"sku":"PAECGN-26-01-1KG","price":539.0,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/5831\/1346\/files\/PAECGN-26-01_cover.png?v=1783305245","url":"https:\/\/thecrackpots.com\/products\/peru-amazonas-el-colibri-gesha-natural","provider":"The Crackpots Coffee Roaster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}