Panama Abu Coffee Gesha Washed GW-60: A High-Altitude Gesha from Boquete, Chiriquí

The name came from the grandchildren.

Abu. Short for abuelo, grandfather, in Spanish. It is what José Luttrell's children called their grandfather, José Guillermo Luttrell Tedman, a third-generation coffee producer from Boquete, Panama. When José started his own farm on the same volcanic slopes, he named it after that nickname. Not after the land or the elevation or the varietal. After what his children called the man who came before him.

That is the kind of thing you notice when you understand what Abu Coffee actually is: a small farm, a few hectares on the slopes of Volcán Barú, dwarfed in acreage by neighbors like La Esmeralda and Lamastus, that exists to honor something. Size is not the point here. Detail is.

The farm sits on Hacienda Cañas Verdes at 1,550 meters above sea level. The GW-60 lot is washed. Fully, deliberately, without compromise.

Washed processing is the choice you make when you want the coffee to speak for itself. The cherry skin is removed. Fermentation happens under controlled conditions. The bean dries clean. Nothing from the fruit remains to add body or sweetness or complexity that was not already present in the bean. What you are left with is the most direct line between the plant and your cup, the terroir, the altitude, the varietal genetics, and the decisions the farmer made, with nowhere for any of it to hide.

At 1,550 masl, with the volcanic soil of Barú, selective hand-picking, and the discipline of controlled fermentation, what comes through is this: tamarind and green mango acidity in the first sip, bright and clean without sharpness. Strawberry sweetness in the middle of the cup. Orange blossom in the finish, the kind that opens up as the temperature drops and stays longer than you expect.

Abu Coffee earned recognition at Best of Panama 2025. José's daughter Sofia recently became the first woman to win the Panama National Brewer's Cup, a competition that measures not what the farm produces, but what someone can do with it at the highest level of craft. The Luttrells are a family who take coffee seriously across generations, and that seriousness is not incidental to what is in the cup. It is the reason the cup is what it is.

Small farm. Precise process. A name carried forward so that the man behind it is not forgotten, and the standard he set is not abandoned.

Origin: Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama
Farm: Hacienda Cañas Verdes
Producer: José Luttrell
Altitude: 1,550 masl
Process: Washed
Varietal: Gesha
Notes: Tamarind, Green Mango, Strawberry, Orange Blossom