Panama’s  Lamastus family has again been crowned the royal family of  geisha coffee produced in the highlands of Chiriqui.

with a  score of 95.25 out  100, Elida Geisha Green Tip Natural, from Lamastus Family Estates, won the first prize in the geisha category with processes in the 23^rd  Best of Panama tasting

The family surpassed its own mark of last year and estimate that in the upcoming virtual auction it will be possible to break the world record price achieved last year when an Asian buyer paid   $803  per pound.

In each category judged by the 21  world gourmet coffee specialists, the quality of the Panamanian grain stood out, with the diversity of flavors and fragrances. senses.

Chief tasting judge Will Young,  equates  Panama the seat of good coffee, with  Bourbon, France, for good wine.

"There is a renaissance in luxury coffee in the world. And it is in this western part of the Isthmus that the amount of microclimates gives that particularity to coffee, "he said.

Plinio Ruiz, president of the Special Coffee Association of Panama, said that with the results of the tasting the Panamanian coffee industry won.

Wilford Lamastus said that the award-winning coffee was treated with anaerobic techniques, as part of novel systems that are implemented on the farm, which is located more than 2,000  feet above sea level.

"For my family, which has more than 100 years in coffee growing, this award is a great distinction," he said.

In second place in this category, with 94 points, came the Janson Family Selection; and the third place, with 93.50 points, went to to  the Santamaría Geisha Elixir Natural lot from the producer Edwin Santamaría.

 Washed geisha
the Lamastus family also triumphed. in the washed geisha category.,

They got the highest score, with  95 points for Elida Geisha Green Tip lot of Lamastus Family Estates. In second place, with 94.25 points, was the Esmeralda Special Jaramillo Geisha Washed lot from Peterson Family; and in the third place, with 93.50 points, was the lot Geisha L. Estela, owned by Estela Pitti.

 the Lamastus family also got the highest score, with 95 points for Elida Geisha Green Tip lot of Lamastus Family Estates. In second place, with 94.25 points, came was occupied by the Esmeralda Special Jaramillo Geisha Washed lot from Peterson Family; and in the third position, with 93.50 points, was the lot Geisha L. Estela, owned by Estela Pitti.