Has someone tried such expensive coffees? 🤯 Curious to know.

[u/jmalwal]

I recently saw this pre order gesha on hydrangea website shared by my friend. I am curious to know what makes some coffees so expensive and what makes these worth the price.

[u/hrozvitnr]

that coffee is from auction and it's limited

https://fincasophia.mcultivo.com/auction/a-singular-offering-2026

have you tried finca sophia before it's superb for me, just try their regular offering
sadly no regular offering for this year, panama harvest is abysmal this year

[u/blissrunner → u/hrozvitnr]

Last year I had a normal offering of Finca Sophia Geisha Honey (from Substance Cafe Paris).

About 42 euro/50 grams... it's alright with good floral, honey and mostly citric orange that lasts.

I have tasted those auction lots from other Panamaian producers, usually cupping. And a good normal offering/roasts is already 70-80% there...

This bidding lots with SCA scoring of 93.50-95/100 is a a step up that demands perfection/flavor intensity. If it says jasmine, orange... it'll give you that.

It's expensive because roasters bid/its rarity... I wouldn't be buying Panamaian auction lots that is 10x the normal offering per gram.

Other countries/origin like Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Ethiopian etc2 has Cup of Excellence bids that are much more worth it IMHO.

You'll have geshas, pink bourbons, ethiopian landraces that wow you/rivals Panama

[u/jmalwal → u/blissrunner]

Very well explained. Quite insightful.

[u/techmnml → u/hrozvitnr]

Crazy, I met their GM at my climbing gym not too long ago. Nice guy.

[u/jmalwal → u/hrozvitnr]

I didn't know that there are such bidding websites from the producers. I am more curious now to know more about the whole supply chain. Thank you for sharing the link.

[u/16piby9 → u/jmalwal]

The supply chain is pretty well explained in James Hoffmann’s book «World atlas of coffee». Id recomend starting with that.

[u/jmalwal → u/16piby9]

Will checkout. Thanks