What is specialty coffee?

Specialty coffee refers to high-quality coffee beans that are sourced from specific microclimates, carefully cultivated, harvested, and processed to bring out unique flavors and characteristics. It emphasizes quality, sustainability, and traceability throughout the entire coffee supply chain.

How is specialty coffee different from regular coffee?

Specialty coffee focuses on the quality and unique characteristics of the coffee beans, whereas regular coffee is more about mass production and consistency. Specialty coffee often has distinct flavors, and its beans are graded and scored based on attributes such as aroma, taste, and body.

What is single-origin coffee?

Single-origin coffee refers to coffee beans that are sourced from a single geographical region, farm, or producer. This can highlight the unique characteristics of the coffee beans influenced by the specific climate, soil, and processing methods of that region.

How is Geisha Coffee graded and scored?

Specialty Geisha Coffee is graded and scored using a standardized system developed by the Specialty Coffee Association. Beans are evaluated based on factors such as aroma, flavor, acidity, body, and balance. A coffee must score at least 80 out of 100 points to be considered specialty grade.

What are the best brewing methods for Geisha Coffee?

There is no one-size-fits-all answer, as the best brewing method depends on personal preferences and the specific characteristics of the coffee beans. Common methods include pour-over, French press, Aeropress, espresso, and cold brew. Experimenting with different methods can help you find the best way to showcase the unique flavors of Geisha Coffee.

How should I store Geisha Coffee?

To maintain freshness and flavor, store Geisha Coffee in an airtight container away from light, heat, and moisture. Avoid storing them in the refrigerator or freezer, as temperature fluctuations can negatively affect the taste and quality.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Rume Sudan

Name: Jamaica Blue Mountain Rume Sudan
Brand: Paradise Coffee
SKU: jbm-rume-4
Price: 40.0 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

Regular price $40

Unit price per

Weight:

4oz

12oz

Grind:

Whole Bean

Auto Drip

French Press

Quantity:

only 0 left in stock

Coffee Profile

Continent: Carribean

Country: Jamaica

Farm: Coffea Diversa

Process: Washed

Region: Blue Mountains

Variety: Rume Sudan

Roast Scale

Light Medium Dark

Tasting Notes

Not your parents Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee! A bright, silky cup. Rounded and understated with hints of lime zest, ginger, and caramel. The cup softly fades to milk chocolate in the finish.

Background

Gonzalo Hernandez likes to brag that he’s amassed the world’s largest private collection of coffees trees: more than two hundred species, botanical varieties, mutations and cultivars that grow on his exotic Costa Rican “coffee garden”, Coffea Diversa. His collection includes some of the rarest in the world -- coffees many have neither heard of nor tasted.

Of each variety Gonzalo has only a few trees, and his coffees are sold in small 10 kilogram bags to knowledgeable roasters and friends around the world, first come, first serve. We first visited Coffea Diversa and met Gonzalo 11 years ago, and we’ve been looking forward to sharing these ever since.

A few years ago he started a farm in Jamaica's Blue Mountains in partnership with the Sharp Family of Clifton Mount Estate, growing a selection of his best cupping varieties from the Costa Rica farm. This farm is finally starting to produce and Paradise is one of the first roasters in the world to have an opportunity to share these coffees. This year we purchased some of the Rume Sudan variety. Extremely limited, we featured this coffee for our March 2024 Rare Coffees Tour. We have just 20Lb left over to offer.

Rume Sudan

Coffea Arabica is native to the highlands of Southwest Ethiopia and the neighboring Boma Plateau In South Sudan. It was here that this variety was collected in 1942 by British officers from Kenya stationed in Ethiopia and Sudan during World War II. The Rume Sudan along with other varieties collected in southwest Ethiopia such as Dilla Algae and Dalle were brought back to Kenya and trialed there.

This variety showed resistance to Coffee Leaf Rust along with Coffee Berry Disease and good cup quality in Kenya and Tanzania. But poor yields. It has never been extensively commercialized for this reason, but has been important in coffee breeding.

The first of the varieties that Rume Sudan went into developing was the Riuri 11 hybrid in Kenya. Several of the Latest generation of F1 hybrids being planted have Rume Sudan as one of the parents. Such as H1 Centroamericano.

Rume Sudan was introduced to USDA and CATIE in Costa Rica at the same time as Geisha T.2722. USDA accession #205931. Coffea Diversa has been growing at their Costa Rica botanical garden for many years and it is one of the varieties they chose to plant at their new partner farms in Jamaica and Guatemala. Only in the past decade have commercial plantings of this variety started in limited scale. with a handful of farms around the world that currently have mature trees in production.

This variety first gained greater attention in the Specialty Coffee Industry when an example from Colombia was used to win the 2015 World Barista Championship.