The birth of a new variety: The Pink Bourbon!
It is a rare and moving event, which few botanists experience in their lives.
So, L'Arbre à Café wanted to live this moment with you and celebrate the Creation with you!
There is a before, that of the red Bourbon, the pointed and the yellow, and an after, which starts now, that of the Pink! No doubt it is a girl ;) And as a good news never arrives alone, this Pink Bourbon, born on the Colombian hillsides and the mountains of Honduras, turns out to be very beautiful.
Its aromas of elderberry, rose, red and yellow fruits, and its silky texture, and full body, make it an exceptional coffee. As it is a very small baby, still fragile and confidential, it is very rare, it is hardly if the world production reaches the 2 tons. But since at L'Arbre à Café we like to celebrate life and celebrate great coffees, we have included it in our Limited Edition and reserved it for you, our customers.
But how did we get here?
Bourbon is a well-known and highly sought-after Arabica variety, because beyond its fruity, elegant and light cup, which makes it often compared to pinot noir, Bourbon is the mother of half of the world's coffee plants, or almost. Remember? When the Dutch and the French, tired of depending on the Arabian coffee trade, which from Moka in Yemen reached the Venetian and European ports, crossing the Arabian Peninsula (hence the term Arabi-ca) on camels, succeeded in acclimatizing coffee trees in their respective colonies, they were called Typica, and Bourbon. If the first is probably an Ethiopian plant first acclimatized in India and Indonesia and then spread throughout the Caribbean and Latin America from Dutch Guiana, the current Surinam, Bourbon, is a Yemeni plan, that the French have planted in Reunion, then called, Bourbon Island.
The eponymous variety was quickly acclimatized in the West Indies (Martinique, Guadeloupe etc...) and then in Central and South America. Typica and Bourbon are therefore the origin of coffee in Latin America but also Arabicas in many African countries, except Ethiopia. Nature has endowed Arabica with some qualities that mankind greatly appreciates, notably its self-pollinating character and its great genetic instability. This means that it mutates according to the terroir and is available in different colors. Bourbon has thus given birth to Laurina or Bourbon Pointu on the volcanoes of Reunion Island, to Bourbon Jaune on the red lands of Brazil etc.. The Typica also multiplied mutations, the most famous of which is the Blue Mountain. These pure varieties are particularly appreciated for their finesse and their aromatic complexity but are fragile and not very productive and thus rare. We have a few small bags, roasted on a particular profile, and offering a cup of 90 points and more.
It's crazy balanced, good, full of fruit, reds, yellows. In short, an exceptional cup, and a trip to the heart of history in progress!
