Seth Taylor | Panama - Hacienda La Esmeralda

Seth Taylor

My journey started in 2008 bagging coffee after hours in a roastery/cafe. This is where I fell in love with coffee. Next thing I knew we won the 2010 Canadian Barista Championship! Then onto judging competitions and training competitors in both England and Canada. 

In 2013 I started working for a roaster with a focus on revamping their roasting program and learning the green buying trade. BAM! We were crowned Roaster of the Year by Roast Magazine in 2015. 

In 2017 I took the leap and started my own business. Seth Taylor Coffee is a high quality coffee roaster. My mission is to source the absolute best single origin coffees available. Offerings rotate regularly based on coffee seasonality with a focus on single variety lots.

Ruby Collection - Fruity & Fun

These coffees are funky and exciting with flavours like berries and tropical fruits.

This gem of a coffee is fruity and sweet. It makes me see lots of different tones of red. Reminds me of red currant, cherry, and raspberry. 

From Hacienda La Esmeralda:

SL-34 3 NB (CV) was harvested from the SL-34 lot in Hacienda La Esmeralda's Cañas Verdes farm on January 16th, 2024. After harvest, the coffee cherries were taken to Hacienda La Esmeralda's mill and dried on raised beds for 41 days. SL-34 3 NB (CV) has notes of brown sugar, cherry, honey, strawberry, mango, and vanilla. 

Hacienda La Esmeralda is probably the most well known farm in the world. It is recognized as the farm where the gesha variety was discovered. 

Since then Esmeralda has become one of the top producers of coffee selling lots of record prices and pushing the boundaries of cultivation.