TIM WENDELBOE - Los Pirineos Geisha | El Salvador - Washed - Geisha

Diego’s father Gilberto started planting Geisha from a handful of seeds many years ago. In fact he started with just a few trees in his garden outside his house in San Salvador before transferring the trees and planting more on his farm. This was because back then it was really hard to come across good Geisha seeds and Gilberto wanted to personally guard his trees to make sure they grew up well.

Since then we have been waiting patiently for the trees to produce enough of the good quality to be able to offer this coffee in our selections. I have already have tasted this coffee for a few years now and every year it has had a very distinct and unique orange and tangerine flavour that reminds me of eating orange flavoured milk chocolate.

Last year this coffee was more subtle with low flavour intensity, but this year Diego has made sure to process the coffee really well and has managed to produce a much more flavour intense Geisha coffee. It is quite different from the famous Geishas you can get from Panama that tends to be more delicate with a lighter body and a more floral cup profile.

This is a completely different style of Geisha with a heavier body, dense mouthfeel and loads of tangerine flavour with some orange blossom aromas.