The Worlds Most Expensive Coffee

Hacienda la Esmeralda's famed Geisha coffee sold at the Best of Panama 2007 auction last Spring for an astonishing $130 per pound, making it the most expensive coffee in the world. On October 1, our roaster Intelligentsia, will be having an open house at the Roasting Works on Fulton Ave. in Chicago. You're invited to try a cup of the Geisha for yourself that evening and then take home some Hacienda la Esmeralda non auction lot coffee to brew later at home.

If you can't get up to Chicago for the open house and still want to try the Geisha you can order from the Intelli web site or just email/call me and I'll place an order. The supply is limited and if you have to ask how much... O.K. it's expensive - $99/half pound or $55/quarter pound.

We should be getting the doors to the coffee house open soon and when we do I'll try to get a stock of the Hacienda Especial which is coffee from the same farm but not from the same lot that was in the auction. It should give us an idea of the Geisha taste for a lot less! We can make it in a press pot or you can buy whole beans to take home.