Most Expensive, Best Geisha Coffee--sold in Norway

Geisha Coffee Panama
Hacienda La Esmeralda Farm

Top Ten Most Expensive Coffees (2010)...
1/2 pound bag $135.00 (top wholesale price 2007)
8 oz cup $15.00 (sold at a coffee shop 2007)

Best Coffee (2009)...
The 10 top scoring farms were from eight different origins and received scores of 84 or above:



Hacienda La Esmeralda (Panama)*
Santa Elisa Pachup (Guatemala)
La Pampa (Guatemala)
Finca Santa Anita (Costa Rica)
Grupo Asociativo San Isidro (Colombia)
Sumatra Mandheling Rainforest (Indonesia)
Capoeirinha - Ipanema Coffees (Brazil)
Fazenda Lambari (Brazil)
Gemadro Coffee Plantation (Ethiopia)
Monte Siona (El Salvador)

Rainforest Alliance Certified™ coffee farms
2009 Rainforest Alliance Cupping
Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA)



Sold in Norway...
3 Roasters
6 bags each in Auction for 2010
Weight - 132 lbs or 60 kilos per bag
Prices estimated between $7,800 to $9,000!!! or $26 to $30 per pound, these being raw beans & what will the end roasted coffee cost in Norway in NOK?!)

1) KAFFA as
2) Solberg & Hansen AS
3) Tim Wendelboe

(*Note Sold in USA, but not the State I will be living in next, nor the States I usually visit either - so what are my chances of tasting a cup back home?! better chance of tasting it here...)



Auction Lots for Hacienda La Esmeralda 2010 were from...

Mario Carnaval
Mario San José * KAFFA & Tim Wendelboe
Mario Enero * Solberg & Hansen
Barú
Caballeriza
Naranjo
Colgá



Sold in Rogaland region, in Stavanger area at...
TØRSTE SØSTRE (aka Thirsty Sisters)
Link to Thirsty Sister's Facebook page for the coffee shop in Sola

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=142986656910#!/group.php?gid=142986656910&v=info

Link to Thirsty Sister's Webpage...
http://torstesostre.no/

(*Note: this is where I read about this coffee to begin with, ever curious, went in search of more info on this special coffee...which was commented on by Anna Depew "Just drank my first cup of Hacienda la Esmerelda coffee. It tastes like a breath of fresh mountain air blowing over a bag of fresh ground of coffee. This is not coffee. It is gold. Pure gold." Now I want to taste a cup of pure gold at least once, is it on the bucket list? maybe just on the before I leave Norway I must try this list?!)

Link to the Coffee Farm...
http://www.haciendalaesmeralda.com/

Photo Credits: all from Hacienda La Esmeralda webpage

Link to read about how the Farm is Sustainable in regards to - People, Land, Energy, Buyer...
http://www.haciendaesmeralda.com/Sustainability.htm

Link to read about "the" Geisha varietal...
http://www.haciendaesmeralda.com/Thegeisha.htm

Link to NYTimes Article, May 2010...
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/ristretto-hacienda-la-esmeralda/

Link to CNBC Video - Coffee the New Wine (more than one media source seemed to like to use this line...) Today - On the Money program
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Note: I use to be mesmerized by Jamaican Blue Mountain (smoothest coffee I've tasted to date & the most expensive I've ever purchased by a 1/4 lb, that I shared with a coffee tasting group a long time ago in a land far far away from here too) or Hawaiian Kona Coffee (have yet to visit Hawaii, but on the list)--now I will have to try a Geisha Panama Coffee & of in all the places... Stavanger, Norway?!