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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Finca Nuguo - Gesha Variety 4oz Tin; not a documentary photograph

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🇵🇦Panama

Finca Nuguo - Gesha Variety 4oz Tin

Roasted by Counter Culture CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsPanamaJurutungo, ChiriquíGeshaWashedLight roastRaspberryOrangeArabicaSingle originFinca NuguoGallardo familyCounter Culture CoffeeIndependent
🇵🇦PanamaWashedGeshaLight roast
Brand
Counter Culture Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇵🇦Panama
Region
Jurutungo, Chiriquí
Town
Jurutungo
Farm / Station
Finca Nuguo
Farmer / Producer
Gallardo family
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Gesha
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
blue raspberry, blood orange, magnolia blossom
Fermentation
—
Drying
—
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • region idThe release verifies Jurutungo in Chiriquí, but no exact matching locality-level region record is established in the current taxonomy.
  • altitude mCounter Culture publishes a 1,800–1,980 meter range, not a single lot elevation.
  • fermentationThe exact release is identified as washed, but lot-specific fermentation details are not published.
  • drying methodThe farm has used multiple drying experiments; none is documented for this exact 2025 lot.
  • price usdThe page publishes the green-coffee FOB payment, not the four-ounce tin's retail price.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date applies universally to the release.
  • public sentimentNo qualifying independent review of the exact March–April 2025 Counter Culture release was found.
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Finca Nuguo - Gesha Variety 4oz Tin
  2. 02
    The brand
    Counter Culture Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Counter Culture Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Gesha
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Nuguo
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Gallardo family
  7. 07
    The region
    Jurutungo, Chiriquí
  8. 08
    The country
    🇵🇦Panama
From the producer

José Manuel Gallardo Araúz owns Finca Nuguo and four other small farms in Chiriquí; his son José manages Nuguo. The family has farmed coffee for more than three decades.

From the roaster

Counter Culture Coffee is a specialty roaster that emphasizes direct relationships with producers and provides detailed sensory profiles for their single-origin offerings.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Finca Nuguo evolved from a promising but uneven 2014 sample into one of Panama’s best-known competition farms. Its coffees placed first in the natural category and second in the washed category at the 2021 Best of Panama.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Tiny plot selection

The five-hectare farm is divided into smaller sections; Counter Culture secured only 32 pounds of green coffee from this release.

02
Washed processing

The release is identified as washed, but lot-specific fermentation and drying parameters are not published.

What was added?

No flavoring agents or processing additions are documented.

What wasn't added?

Farm-level experiments with honey and natural processing were not projected onto this washed release; fermentation and drying details remain undisclosed.

Why it matters

The profile keeps the current 2025 lot separate from earlier competition and auction releases from the same celebrated farm.

What you might taste

Blue raspberry, blood orange and magnolia-blossom aromatics.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/finca-nuguo-gesha-variety
Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-13) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

The 2016 Home-Barista tasting concerns an older competition-era Nuguo coffee. Other roasters' lots, Counter Culture's own copy and Cherrybook's coverage/evidence index were excluded because they are not exact independent cup ratings for this 2025 release.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Nuguo →Meet the farmer: Gallardo family →
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