Finca Tamana SL28 & Geisha

Finca Tamana SL28 & Geisha

A delicate tea like coffee with notes of flowers, red fruits & citrus.

250g whole coffee beans

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About this coffee

Cultivar: SL28, Geisha

Flavour notes: Red fruits, floral & citrus

Producer: Elias Roa & Bellanid Sanchez
Country: Colombia
Region: El Pital, Huila
Process: Washed
Harvest date: May - June 2025

More about the cultivar

SL28 is one of the most popular cultivars grown in Kenya because of its high yields and superior quality in the cup. It is no secret that I love this fruity cultivar that at its best taste like black currant juice, rhubarb or rose hip tea. SL28 was a selection made by the Scott Agricultural Laboratories in the 1930’s and along with the SL34 cultivar it is the most commonly grown cultivar in Kenya and an important reason why everyone thinks about fruity coffees when they speak of Kenyan coffees.

The Geisha cultivar is famous for its floral and citric cup profile. This Ethiopian cultivar was re-discovered by the famous Hacienda la Esmeralda in Panama in the early 2000's where it continues to break price records on online coffee auctions year after year.

How the coffee was produced

Picking and sorting

  • The coffee is selectively hand picked by hired pickers under supervision of Elias. Cherries are hand-sorted before they are processed to make sure only ripe cherries are processed together.

Depupling, fermenting & washing

  • The coffee cherries are stored in the cherry hopper in open air over night before the coffee is de-pulped in the morning. After de-pulping, the parchment coffee with the mucilage on is fermented for 24 hours in clean stainless steel tanks. The fermentation is stopped when the mucilage is easy to clean off and before the coffee flavour is influenced by negative fermentation flavours. The coffee is then washed in clean water by using an eco-mill which is a mechanical mucilage remover. The eco-mill reduces water waste from the average 50-100 litres of water per kilo of coffee with traditional washing methods to only 0,5 – 1 litre per kilo. After washing the coffees are soaked for 24 hours in clean water in tiled cement tanks. All floaters (beans with low density) are removed during the washing and soaking process.

Drying

  • After the soaking stage the clean parchment coffee is dried in parabolic dryers and drying beds covered with shade nets to prevent the beans from over heating. The coffees are raked throughout the day to ensure even drying. Drying normally takes from 20 to 30 days and once the moisture content is below 11% it gets packed and stored in air tight grain pro bags. All our coffees from Finca Tamana are vacuum packed before it is shipped to Norway.

Shipping

For our Norwegian customers, we offer two shipping options:

  1. Pakke i Postkassen - With Pakke i Postkassen, tracking is provided, and delivery is estimated within 2-3 business days.
  2. Pakke til hentested - The parcel can be collected from a Post in Store, Post Office, parcel locker, or parcel box. This option includes tracking, with delivery expected within 1-5 business days.

For all international orders, we ship via DHL - Worldwide Express. This shipping method includes tracking, and all customs duties and taxes are covered in the shipping price, ensuring there are no unexpected charges for your order or its importation into the final destination. The estimated delivery time with DHL is 1-5 business days. For more information about shipping, please visit our FAQ page here. If you have further questions, please contact us here.

How to brew

Filter

We strongly recommend using the correct measurements and brewing techniques when you brew our coffees. Use a digital scale both to measure water and coffee in order to get consistent results, and we recommend using between 60 to 70 grams of coffee per litre (1000g) of water, depending on the brewing method, water quality and coffee used.

Tim's notes

This coffee is what we call a field blend of the two cultivars Geisha and SL28. Elias and Bellanid have been producing small amounts of Geisha and SL28 in different areas on the farm for a while now and although the coffees have been nice, the aromatics have been quite subtle and not as intense as we have wanted them to be. I suspect it is due to the fact that their coffee does not grow under a shade canopy. (I have been asking Elias to plant shade trees for many years which he is now finally doing.)

About 5 years ago, Elias decided to plant some SL28 along with seeds from his best Geisha trees in a part of the farm that had some shade trees already growing. This is the first year we are getting the coffee from this part of the farm and they have been tasting very good.

Normally we ask Elias and Bellanid to separate every picking by cultivar but  since the two cultivars are planted together in the same field and they are having difficulties to get enough pickers during the harvest, they decided to pick both cultivars together in order to save time. The result is a vibrant and delicate coffee with floral, citrus and tea like notes mixed with some red fruits.

Colombia

Finca Tamana

Finca Tamana is a 57 hectare coffee plantation located in the mountains between El Pital and La Plata in Huila Colombia. It was acquired by Elias Roa in 2011 after being abandoned for a while and today the farm is managed by Elias and his family.

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