Oscar Abad - Geisha [washed] filter roast

Oscar Abad - Geisha [washed] filter roast

This is a beauty of a washed Geisha from Oscar. It’s packed full of flavour, pawpaw green tea, mandarin & candy apple.  

Roasted 05 AUG 2025
      $48.00
      $48.00
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      About the farmer(s)

      Oscar Abad - Geisha [washed] — Peru

      Oscar owns Finca Picorana. This is a tiny 1-hectare farm, located in San Ignacio, Cajamarca, high in the Andean Mountain Range. Oscar has planted around 5000 coffee trees on the farm & built a small wet-mill to process his coffee. This lot is a washed coffee, during harvest the ripe coffee cherries are picked, taken to the mill where they are washed, sorted to remove defects, de-pulped, dry fermented for 48 hours, washed & then dried on raised beds until the moisture content has reduced to 11%.

      • region Cajamarca
      • farm/farmer Finca Picorana
      • altitude 1700 Meters
      • crop 2024
      • cultivar Geisha
      • process Washed

      In 1931, a British ambassador picked a selection of coffee berries in Southwest Ethiopia near a village called Gesha. In 1932 seeds from these plants were sent to Kenya. In 1936 seedlings were sent to Uganda & Tanzania. In the mid 50's seeds were sent from Tanzania to Costa Rica, where trials began. In 1963 Don Pachi Serracin brought some Geisha seeds to Panama, but attempts to grow Geisha were axed due to poor flavour, [most likely caused by the plants growing at too low an altitude]. Geisha, was then forgotten about until 2002 when Daniel Peterson from Hacienda Esmerada decided to cup coffee from different parts of his farm & came across this extraordinary coffee we know as Geisha.

      Coffee cherries at Finca Picorana.

      Coffee beans exiting the de-pulper at Oscars wet-mill.

      Coffee drying on raised beds at Finca Picorana.