Pink Bourbon.
The pink stone, dried in its own honey.
Pink Bourbon cherries
From cherry to cupPink Bourbon
Everything the house knows about this lot, from the hillside to the bag.
- Lot
- OV-26-013
- Variety
- Pink Bourbon
- Selection
- Rare beans
- Process
- Honey
- 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.
Alpine Imports Limited trading as Oro Verde.
For years the farmers of Huila grew a coffee they took for a Bourbon that had turned pink. They guarded the seed anyway. When genetic work finally looked closer, the label fell apart: Pink Bourbon is not a Bourbon, but an Ethiopian line growing quietly in Colombian ground.
It is the closest thing coffee has to a misfiled gem: catalogued as one stone, revealed as another, and kept because the cup had already made the case. This is the variety the house intends to be known by.
More on Pink Bourbon →Ask about this lot.
Email Gio with roughly how many kilos you'd like, or ask for a 200 g sample. No account and no commitment. What roasters ask for decides what comes in on the first shipment.
Or write to info@alpineimports.co.nz. I reply within a working day.