Pink Bourbon.
It warms slowly. The first stone on the table.
Pink Bourbon cherries
From cherry to cupPink Bourbon
Everything the house knows about this lot, from the hillside to the bag.
- Lot
- OV-26-002
- Variety
- Pink Bourbon
- Selection
- Sought-after beans
- Process
- Washed
- 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 →
- Classic washed: 24 hours fermenting in the whole cherry, then 24 hours after depulping
- 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
- 1,750 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 →
- 86 · 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 →
- 12 kg vacuum packs
- Status
- Proposed for the first shipment.
Alpine Imports Limited trading as Oro Verde.
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.
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.