Finca Bernardina Coffee Farm — Panama | Who Makes The Best Coffee

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TagsFinca Bernardina Félix Aguilar and family Panama Catuai Caturra Maragogype Gesha Washed Honey Natural

The story

The farm is named for Iluminada Bernardina, the family's first coffee producer in the 1960s. The second generation began Finca Bernardina in 1987 with two hectares of Caturra and Catuai; the farm is now worked by second- and third-generation family members.

Innovations

The farm controls undergrowth without herbicides, plants native shade trees, conserves forest and water sources, and has begun small experimental-fermentation trials. Exact Rogue Wave Geisha releases used natural processing and long sun drying, but those lot protocols are not generalized to every farm coffee.

Published coffees linked to this farm

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Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Finca Bernardina Geisha Lot 575, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration

🇵🇦Panama

Panama · Renacimiento

Finca Bernardina Geisha Lot 575

Félix Aguilar and family

Rogue Wave Coffee Roasters

Finca Bernardina

Gesha· Natural

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Research sources & verification

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Research last reviewed: 2026-10-29