On Tasting $30,000 Coffee

What I learned from tasting very, very expensive beans.

Somehow, I was lucky enough to try a Geisha coffee from Hacienda la Esmeralda. In August, a special washed process Geisha variety lot from this farm was auctioned off at the lofty price of $30,000 per kilogram. There were many, many other coffees and producers from the same event that auctioned off at unprecedentedly high prices, which you can scroll th…