Los Alpes was named after the Swiss Alps by a Swedish family who came to Panama for cattle. The Jansons settled in Volcan in 1926 and ran dairy for six decades before Carl Axel's sons turned the place to coffee in 1989.
The plot sits at 1600 to 1700 mdpl in Tisingal, on the Talamanca range, northwest of Baru and hard against La Amistad. The reserve on the other side of that boundary is a UNESCO site, which is to say the treeline next to these rows is not going anywhere.
What Janson actually does differently is separate. This is lot 1059. There have been 546, 552, 749, 926, and each one is kept apart and sold apart rather than pooled into an estate natural. Los Alpes took second at Best of Panama in 2019 with eight judges over 95.
Pomegranate leads, tart and deep. Cherry sits under it, honey fills the body, and apricot closes it out.