Elida
PANAMA
The Lamastus Family has been producing coffee in Elida Estate for four generations, since 1918. Elida Estate coffees are produced under a unique ecological condition: it is shade-grown, bird-friendly, the farm is located at a very high elevation in a microclimate with very low temperatures and the coffee trees are surrounded by the ancient rainforest of Volcan Baru National Park. Our cascara is made out of the dried coffee cherries of a natural-processed Catuai lot.
At the turn of the century, Kentucky-born Robert Lamastus established a coffee plantation in Boquete, Panama. At the time the current generation's grandfather processed and exported what is still considered today as one of the highest quality coffees in the world. Nowadays and three generations later the tradition continues, the family still produces, processes, exports and now even roasts its own rare estate coffees. The Lamastus family cultivates coffee on three different farms located in Boquete, Panama. El Burro Estate, Luito Geisha Estates and Elida Estate are all located in the highest area of the country, on steep hills on the skirt of one of the highest volcanoes in Central America, the Baru Volcano. Elida Estate is the highest coffee farm in Panama located between 1,700 and 2,500 metres above sea level.