Colombia Pink Bourbon Jesus Arbey Iquira - Natural

Colombia – Jesus Arbey Iquira

Pink Bourbon Natural

Whole beans 250g/500g

Origin: Finca El Placer, Acevedo, Huila 
Variety: Pink Bourbon 
Process: Natural 
Altitude: 1750 masl
Roast: Light 
Tasting Notes: Cooked Peach • Mango • Brown Sugar • Floral • Juicy
Best for: Filter · Pour Over · AeroPress · Plunger 

A vibrant, fruit-forward Pink Bourbon natural from Jesus Arbey Iquira in Acevedo, Huila. Expressive, juicy, and softly layered with sweetness.

This lot opens with the warmth of cooked peach and ripe mango, followed by brown-sugar sweetness and a gentle floral lift. The cup feels bright yet rounded, with juicy acidity and a soft, flowing finish that carries both clarity and depth. It is expressive without being loud, bringing together the sweetness of stone fruit, the softness of tropical fruit, and the elegance that Pink Bourbon is known for.

Acevedo, Huila

Acevedo, in the southern part of Huila, is one of Colombia’s most exciting coffee-growing areas, known for producing coffees with vivid fruit, floral aromatics, and remarkable sweetness. High elevations, cool mountain temperatures, and steady maturation help cherries develop complexity while preserving clarity in the cup.

At Finca El Placer, these conditions help bring out the refined character of Pink Bourbon, a variety celebrated for its floral lift, elegant acidity, and layered sweetness. In this lot, the natural process adds extra fruit depth and a more rounded, juicy texture.

Pink Bourbon

Pink Bourbon has become one of Colombia’s most sought-after varieties for its elegant, high-definition cup profile. It is especially prized for its floral lift, juicy acidity, silky texture, and layered fruit sweetness — often showing notes such as peach, melon, papaya, jasmine, rose, honey, and citrus depending on origin, terroir, and processing.

What makes Pink Bourbon so compelling is the combination of clarity and sweetness it can produce in the cup. It can feel delicate and expressive at the same time — bringing together floral aromatics, ripe fruit character, and a refined, tea-like elegance that has made it especially popular in high-end specialty coffee.

Natural Process

Natural processing begins with carefully selected ripe cherries that are dried with the fruit still intact around the seed. Because the coffee remains inside the cherry during drying, sugars and fruit compounds have more time to influence flavour development, giving the cup greater sweetness, body, and fruit intensity.

As the cherries dry, the seed absorbs characteristics from the surrounding fruit, often creating notes that feel more ripe, expressive, and syrupy than washed coffees. In this coffee, that translates into cooked peach, mango sweetness, and a soft brown-sugar richness, while still retaining the floral elegance of the Pink Bourbon variety.

Once drying is complete, the coffee is milled and rested before export, allowing the flavours to stabilise and the profile to become more integrated in the cup.

Naturals coffee often express:

Riper stone fruit and tropical fruit character

Greater sweetness and roundness

A fuller, juicier mouthfeel

Lifted aromatics with layered complexity

Expressive acidity balanced by fruit depth