Jan 2017 - Panama Elida Estate - Campos Coffee

We couldn’t be more happy to kick off Coffee of the Month 2017 with the Panama Elida Estate. This delicious coffee opens with sumptuous dried fig aromas that are complimented by flavour notes of red grape and hibiscus. It then evolves into this creamy, full-bodied coffee that will linger well after the last sip!

Elida Estate is now well and truly part of our coffee vernacular after the Tree-Dried Geisha release late last year. In addition to that spectacular geisha lot, we also secured several bags of a traditional Elida lot (as we have in the past). The Elida Estate is grown, picked and processed in the same Baru Volcano National Park location as the tree-dried geisha lot. The low overnight temperatures combined with fog and mist during the dry season allow for the development of incredible complexity in the cup. Coffee trees in this part of the world can take up to 2 or 3 years longer to produce than average.

Campos has a long and close relationship with the Lamastus Family, the owners of Elida Estate. Each visit with Wilford Junior and Wilford Senior we are reminded of how passionate this family is about their coffee, and about all coffee in general. On this trip we invited our good friend, Darren Fittler, aka the Blind Taster. Darren’s dream was to join us on a coffee sourcing expedition and this started in Panama. Talk about starting on the pointy end of the quality pyramid!  Wilford held a fantastic tour where he shoved Darren’s hands into all the coffees, across the processing equipment, the trees and even into the soil. Combined with the aromas of the coffees on the tasting table, this would be a sensory smorgasbord for a blind foodie like Darren!