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Baru Black Mountain

Panama - Chiriqui - Volcan Baru - Baru Black Mountain - Catuai - Natural

CROP 2025/2026 See coffee details

SCA score85

Aromatic notes

berrylemonapricotcocoabrown sugarvegetal

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History and traceability

The story

Petrakis's path into specialty coffee is anything but conventional. After settling in Panama over a decade ago, he built a career that spans virtually the entire coffee value chain. He is a certified AST trainer through the Specialty Coffee Association, a professional roaster, and a high-level competitor. Beyond his work at origin, he operates a roastery in the city where he processes approximately four tons of coffee per month — maintaining a permanent connection between production and consumption. His experience as a cupper, roaster, and barista directly informs every decision made on the farm, allowing him to design coffees with a fully integrated vision of quality.

Among his achievements: Panama National Barista Champion 2024, Panama's representative at the World Barista Championship in Korea, 2nd place at Panama Brewers Cup 2023, and 3rd place at Panama Barista Championship 2025 — competing with coffees produced on his own farm.

Belco's relationship with Baru Black Mountain predates Petrakis's involvement — we had previously sourced coffee from the farm's former owners. When Petrakis and his team took over the project, we knew we wanted to be part of it. The collaboration has since been built around a shared vision of excellence, innovation, and Transparency. His ability to understand the needs of roasters and End Consumers has created a relationship grounded in consistent quality and ongoing technical exchange.

Petrakis represents a new generation of Producers who understand coffee from multiple perspectives simultaneously — growing it, roasting it, teaching it, and competing with it. That full-chain vision is what makes Baru Black Mountain genuinely singular. Shared values with Belco include continuous innovation and learning, Transparency and Product Traceability, and the commitment to building value from origin all the way to the cup.

Baru Black Mountain is located in northern Panama, in the Chiriqui Province and near the La Amistad International Park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Standing 3,800 metres above sea level, Volcan Baru overlooks the national park and marks the country’s highest point. The farm is named after the region’s very dark volcanic soil. It is situated to the west of the volcano at an altitude of between 1,350 and 1,500 metres, midway between the cities of Volcan and Rio Sereno. It is an ideal environment for growing coffee. In addition to its mineral-rich soil, streams and century-old trees, which provide natural shade, it benefits from perfect weather conditions, all of which optimise production.
The Baru Black Mountain farm is not only committed to environmentally-friendly farming practices, by using stream water to wash its harvested cherries for example, but also respects its workers, who receive medical and educational support for their families.
Our agricultural engineer, who helps our producers improve the quality of their coffees, visited the Baru Black Mountain plantation in 2017. The aim being to help them experiment with natural and honey processes, never before used at the farm.

Same farm, same variety — but processed naturally, this coffee offers a more intense and fruit-forward expression of the Volcán Barú Terroir. The natural process adds aromatic complexity and outstanding sweetness, making it a high-impact option for roasters seeking coffees with genuine personality.

What we loved was the aromatic intensity and the natural sweetness that envelops the entire cup without losing definition. What surprised us was the balance between ripe fruit, silky Body, and cleanliness — something rarely found in natural-processed coffees at this level.

Unmissable because it reveals a more exuberant side of Volcán Barú, combining Terroir, process, and production precision in one memorable cup. Tasting notes: brown sugar, stone fruit, strawberry, milk chocolate, and citrus.