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Cupped the 2011 crop Hacienda Esmeralda from Panama this evening. The top lot of this coffee last year sold for $170 / lb, or £224 / kg (green, unshipped) add shipping and some margin and you're easily looking at over £300 / kg retail, or £6.00 per cup if you make it at home.
So was it any good? Yes. Very good. Lime, jasmine, bergamot, developing into mango, melon, cherry, berries. Truly kaleidoscopic. It's also a prime example of diminishing returns. One of the cups was our Yirgacheffe, and in a blind tasting 2 out of 10 tasters picked the Yirg as their favourite.
I would certainly recommend trying it, I very much doubt Monmouth will be buying it, but Fortnums and Hasbean have the 2010 crop, just as an experience akin to a vintage Krug, Beluga caviar or an aged Cohiba.