Guatemala Finca El Aceituno Pink Bourbon Natural

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We have been proud importer and roaster partners of Celeste Fumagalli of Jutiapa since 2018. My mom (co-owner, Nancy) first spotted one of Celeste's coffees on a cupping table on a 2017 trip to Guatemala/El Salvador. She came home and said, "Make room in the lineup. We need to bring in this coffee. This woman is doing incredible, creative things." 

One of the things Ms. Fumagalli does is experiment with new varietals and new processing methods, and we consider this natural (sun-dried) Pink Bourbon to be a winner.

Pink Bourbon, despite its name,¹ was recently identified by genetic testing as an Ethiopian landrace. 

That background comes through in its boldly fruity aroma. In the cup we find lots of sweet cherry, an unusual but pleasant green olive note, bergamot aromatics and brown-sugar-lump sweetness on the finish. 

This coffee is a light-medium roast, though Pink Bourbons tend to look darker than they taste. 

Makes a great gift for the coffee lover in your life, or go ahead and treat yourself. 

Grab a bag before it's gone!


¹I've always said product listings really need more historical footnotes. In coffee we say "Boor-BONE" more or less like the House of Bourbon because this varietal descends from plants cultivated on the island of Réunion, east of Madagascar. The island was called Bourbon in the 17th and 18th centuries, before a post-Revolution name change. The French military acquired coffee seedlings from Yemeni Imam Al-Mahdi Muhammed on behalf of the French East India Company—exporting coffee seeds from Yemen was illegal, so the diplomatic mission presumably had gone really well. Some twenty plants survived the voyage to Réunion. In the 19th-century the cultivar was exported to South America via Brazil, where it became very popular due to its higher yield, relative to Typica. You can look at this free map from World Coffee Research to see what cultivars descend from Bourbon.