Pink Bourbon
The flagship, taken further at the mill.
Pink Bourbon cherries
From cherry to cupCertificate of provenance
Pink Bourbon
- Lot
- Opening selection
- Variety
- Pink Bourbon
- Selection
- Sought-after selections
- Process
- Washed
- At the mill
- 30 hours oxidation, 48 hours anaerobic fermentation, thermal shock, yeast inoculation, then sun-dried
- Department
- Huila
- Municipality
- Pitalito
- Grower
- Jose Guerrero
- Altitude
- 1,600 m
- Cup score
- 88
- Packing
- Confirmed with each lot
- Count
- Bought to order.
Alpine Imports Limited trading as Oro Verde.
The ground
The largest coffee town in Huila, near the head of the Magdalena valley. Long-established smallholder farming between roughly 1,400 and 1,900 m.
The variety
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.
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