Bourbon Aruzi.

Counted by the box. Released one lot at a time.

Proposed
From the hillside · Gigante, Huila
Lot record

Bourbon Aruzi

Everything the house knows about this lot, from the hillside to the bag.

Lot
OV-26-006
Selection
Rare beans
The millTwo mills handle a lot. The wet mill on the farm depulps, ferments and dries. The dry mill near the port hulls, sorts and grades for export.More →
96 hours of anaerobic fermentation
DepartmentColombia's thirty-two regions. Huila, Cauca and Antioquia are departments. A lot record names the department first, then the municipality, then the vereda.More →
Huila
MunicipalityThe town and the land around it, one tier below the department. Gigante and Pitalito are municipalities of Huila.More →
Gigante
Grower
Alexis Silva
Altitude
1,700 m
Cup scoreA score out of 100 on the SCA cupping form. Specialty begins at 80. On a lot record the score always names who cupped it: the exporter, the house or a Q grader.More →
85 · Exporter's cupping
PackingHow a lot is sealed for the voyage: a hermetic liner or vacuum pack inside the box, which keeps air and moisture off the green coffee.More →
Confirmed with each lot
Status
Proposed for the first shipment.
The ground

A growing town in central Huila, on the slopes above the Magdalena river. Warm days, cool nights and altitude around 1,500 to 1,900 m.

The variety

Bourbon Aruzi appears in the house sourcing book among the smallest releases. It is a regional selection rather than a registered variety, and the Lot recordThe house's own account of a lot: ground, grower, process, harvest, score and who scored it. A record kept by the house, not an independent grading.More → says so, because uncertain claims do not survive there.

The house brings it in By commissionBought to order against a deposit, not held in New Zealand.More →, counted and assigned before it leaves origin.

More on Bourbon Aruzi →
Lot OV-26-006

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Proposed for the first shipment.Email Gio