Crown Jewel coffees (you’ll see the little tiara on our label). These are specialty micro-lot green coffees curated by our longtime import partners at Royal Coffee in Oakland, CA. These process and cultivar specific micro-milled coffees are hand-selected for their unique profiles and superior quality. First up is this Colombia Fermented Natural Pink Bourbon, produced by Juliana Guevara and Wbeimar Lasso on their farm, La Terraza. 

The flavor profile is fruit-forward, wild, punchy and we love it!

From Royal Coffee:

La Terraza does it again, this time with a macerated natural of their beloved borbon rosado (pink bourbon), from one of the highest plots on Juliana and Weimar’s family farm.  

Pink Bourbon, once thought to be phenotype of the centuries-old bourbon lineage, now known as a descendent of an Ethiopian landrace, expresses a rose-colored cherry pigmentation when ripe as opposed to the more common red, and sometimes yellow, cultivars. Southern Huila has become a kind of niche market for Pink Bourbon. Enterprising farmers have isolated, propagated, and promoted the cultivar, along with the idea of its uniquely delicate cup quality, which many roasters find to be true. We love the Pink Bourbon microlots from La Terraza, in all their expressions. Juliana has a strong affection for the cultivar, calling it “kind” and “generous” in the cup—amenable to different processing manipulations and always delicious.