Berlina Estate near the town of Bajo Boquete was founded in the early 1900’s by Mr Segundo Diaz. A soldier turned farmer and family man, Mr Diaz settled down in Boquete after Panama won independence from Gran Colombia. With enough wild growing Typica coffee trees to kick off a 30 hectare productive estate, Mr Diaz felt he was blessed with perfect coffee growing conditions. It was a difficult run of things though, and after a few ups and downs through the 20th century saw Berlina Estate return to its full glory, and since the 1930’s, it’s consistently been rewarded with Best of Panama titles.

 

A dedicated team of First Nations peoples called the Ngäbe are careful stewards of the land, cultivating and nurturing delicate, delicious and abundant coffee harvests. Berlina Estate is an 84-hectare farm located in the Boquete District in northern Panama. The farm has been owned by the Tzanetatos family since 1997, but is named after the previous owner's wife from Berlin, Germany. Clemente Vega manages the farms of the Berlina Estate and the approximately 300 workers employed during the harvest. When it comes to their coffee, Clemente ensures that all cherries picked for Berlina Estate's production are 100% ripe. To guarantee the highest quality and intensity of flavour, they manually sort out the cherries that do not meet their standards.  Management of Berlina Estate is pursued by Clemente Vega, who is an agronomist extraordinaire, with a wealth of knowledge and experience. He has overseen the production of the washed lots of coffee Berlina is famous for.