Taste note: Balanced coffee with strong caramel, dark chocolate base tone coming with prune juice and stone fruit flavor.
This coffee is sourced from Burman coffee in U.S.A. who work closely with Keith Pech, a award-winning producer in Panama. Keith is really on the cutting edge of Panamanian coffee, he won the Best of Panama this year for one of his Pacamara micro-lots. This lot is selected by Keith from one of his buddy in Panama called Damarli Estate, a high quality Typica Natural processed coffee.
Damarli Estate is a specialty coffee farm located in Boquete, Panama. The estate dates back to 1995 when David Pech, a photographer in the United States and his wife Lia Pech (Ruiz) bought the farm from a bank foreclosure. Lia’s family, the Ruiz family, had been heavily involved in the coffee industry in Boquete for four generations; thus David and Lia were encouraged to get involved with the family industry as well.
Damarli, as a name came from a combination of the original investors: David and Lia and David’s father and mother (Manfred and Ruth Pech) – DA- for David, MA- for Manfred, R – for Ruth and LI – for Lia.
The estate was planted in 1996 and began to produce in 2001. For over one decade Damarli Estate sold the raw coffee cherries to Casa Ruiz, which was Lia’s family’s coffee business. In 2014, David and Lia’s son Keith moved from the United States to Panama in order to begin a new project at Damarli Estate. This was the beginning of a new chapter for the beans.
Keith began to identify all the unique coffee varieties that were grown at Damarli Estate and market them internationally. Keith and David began to process their own coffee at the estate in a way that would create sweet and unique cup profiles that had little to no water waste. They built a house on the estate to accept visitors, a new mill and drying beds to process all the coffees and a coffee tasting lab to accept international buyers. Damarli Estate is a beautiful farm filled with tropical birds, tall canopy forests and enchanting sunrises.
- Origin: Panama
- Region: Boquete
- Producer: Damarli Estate
- Altitude: 1500m
- Cultivar: Typica
- Processing: Natural sun-dried
- Sourcing: Burman Coffee, USA