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Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Finca Sophia; Lots FS9025 & FS9325 - Panama; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Finca Sophia; Lots FS9025 & FS9325 - Panama; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Finca Sophia; Lots FS9025 & FS9325 - Panama; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for 2025 Finca Sophia; Lots FS9025 & FS9325 - Panama; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇵🇦Panama · Volcán

2025 Finca Sophia; Lots FS9025 & FS9325 - Panama

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website
TRADITIONAL PROCESS
TagsPanamaVolcánGeshaWashed3 / 5ArabicaSingle originFinca SophiaSey CoffeeIndependent
🇵🇦PanamaWashedGesha3 / 5 roast
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇵🇦Panama
Region
Volcán
Town
Nueva Suiza
Farm / Station
Finca Sophia
Farmer / Producer
Willem Boot, David Pohl, and Kelly Hartmann
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Not specified
Variety
Gesha
Process
Roast
3 / 5
Tasting notes
articulated florality, ripe tropical fruit, exceptional structure, deep complexity
Fermentation
Depulped the day of harvest and fermented in sacks for 36 hours.
Drying
Washed, dried on shaded raised beds for 12 days, then finished in a temperature-controlled darkroom.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • formal gradeThe exact release does not publish a formal final-lot green-coffee grade.
  • roast dateNo bag-specific roast date was available for the archived direct-sale release.
  • public sentiment ratingSpro reports no reviews; Cherrybook's sparse evidence index is not a cup score.
  • original tasting scoreNo original Who Makes The Best Coffee tasting score has been recorded.
  • competition yearSEY says Finca Sophia took first place in 2016, while the Specialty Coffee Association of Panama records first-place washed Gesha results in 2017 and 2020.
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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
    2025 Finca Sophia; Lots FS9025 & FS9325 - Panama
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Gesha
  5. 05
    The farm
    Finca Sophia
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Willem Boot, David Pohl, and Kelly Hartmann
  7. 07
    The region
    Volcán
  8. 08
    The country
    🇵🇦Panama
From the producer

Finca Sophia was founded in 2008 by Willem Boot and Helen Russell, with partner David Pohl and farm management by Kelly Hartmann. The farm occupies a high-elevation range near Nueva Suiza and produces small washed, natural, and experimental lots; these are farm-level stewardship roles rather than an attribution of every processing action to one person.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery that prioritizes long-term relationships throughout the supply chain to source and roast dynamic, complex coffees. They maintain an annual tradition of securing lot allocations from Finca Sophia, which they describe as exceptional.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

The release combines two precisely identified Finca Sophia harvest lots from one of Panama's highest-elevation farms; SEY documents exact picking dates, processing, and the paired lot codes.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Verified exact lot identity

Confirmed Finca Sophia washed Gesha lots FS9025 and FS9325, Nueva Suiza/Volcán, 2,026 m, and the March 28 and 31, 2025 picking dates.

02
Confirmed the processing sequence

Documented same-day depulping, 36 hours of sack fermentation, washing, 12 days on shaded raised beds, and a temperature-controlled darkroom finish.

03
Added retail and roast evidence

Recorded Cherrybook's exact sold-out $80/50 g listing and Spro's exact-release 3/5 roast value.

04
Reconciled stewardship and limits

Added Helen Russell to the farm stewardship team from the Specialty Coffee Association of Panama profile. The association and SEY disagree on Finca Sophia's first-place Best of Panama year, so the discrepancy remains explicit.

What was added?

Historical $80 USD retail price, exact 3/5 roast value, corrected farm stewardship, and award-year discrepancy disclosure.

What wasn't added?

No formal final-lot grade, bag-specific roast date, original tasting score, or numerical independent public sentiment rating was added.

Why it matters

The record now distinguishes exact-release facts from farm-level history and does not turn sparse catalog evidence into a tasting score.

What you might taste

SEY describes articulated florality, ripe tropical fruit, exceptional structure, and deep complexity.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-finca-sophia-lots-fs9025-fs9325-panama
  • · https://cherrybookcoffee.com/coffee/sey-2025-finca-sophia-lots-fs9025-fs9325-panama
  • · https://www.spro.so/coffees/2795
  • · https://scap-panama.com/finca-sophia/
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 2026-11-04) 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

Spro reports zero reviews for the exact release. Cherrybook's sparse evidence index, seller/catalog listings, farm awards, generic farm coverage, different lots, and older releases were excluded from exact-coffee public sentiment.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Finca Sophia →Meet the farmer: Willem Boot, David Pohl, and Kelly Hartmann →
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