Colombia Gesha Estate

Tasting Notes: Pomegranate · Blackcurrant (Ribena)

From the celebrated Manantiales del Frontino Estate in Colombia comes a Gesha that sings. Washed processing reveals jewel-like clarity — bright pomegranate bursting on the palate, followed by deep blackcurrant sweetness lingering on the finish.

This is a coffee that asks you to slow down. To savour. To remember that even the rarest gifts grow from patient soil.

Origin

• Estate: Manantiales del Frontino — Antioquia, Colombia
• Region: Antioquia (per TCE; see conflicts)
• Country: Colombia
• Altitude: 1,900–2,100 m
• Process: Washed
• Varietal: Gesha
• Roast: Light

In The Cup

• Body: Light, silky
• Acidity: Bright, pomegranate-like
• Sweetness: Blackcurrant, cordial-like
• Finish: Long, floral, blackcurrant

About The Origin

Manantiales del Frontino is a 170-hectare family estate run by agronomist Andrés Felipe Londoño, focused on specialty coffee since 1999. It keeps a block of native forest and many springs (the manantiales of its name), grows more than ten varieties at different heights, and has held Rainforest Alliance certification since 2012. Its Gesha, planted on about a tenth of the farm near pine trees for shade, was named SCAA Coffee of the Year in 2011, and a washed Gesha placed 3rd with 91.00 points in Colombia's 2018 Cup of Excellence. Colombia harvests twice a year, a main crop from about September to January and a smaller mitaca around April to June.

About The Varietal

Gesha (also spelled Geisha) is an Ethiopian landrace collected from forests in the 1930s, passed through Tanzania and CATIE in Costa Rica (1953) and reached Panama in the 1960s. It became famous after Panamanian lots broke green-coffee auction records in the mid-2000s. Tall and low-yielding, it needs altitude and is known for jasmine-like florals, bright fruit acids and a light, tea-like body.

How It Was Processed

Washed: cherries are pulped, the mucilage is fermented off and washed away, and the parchment is dried, on raised beds at this estate according to its importers. For Gesha, washing gives the clarity that lets its florals and fruit acids (here pomegranate and blackcurrant) stand out rather than being covered by fermentation notes.

Brewing Notes

Best enjoyed as filter or pour-over to honour its delicate floral, fruit-forward character. Use a slightly coarser grind and water just off the boil.

Brewed With Purpose

Roasted in small batches at our Maxwell Road roastery by baristas writing a new chapter. Every bag helps fund barista and life-skills training through The TCE Academy — because marginality is not destiny.

“Taste and see that the Lord is good.” — Psalm 34:8