Alexander Vargas - Pink Bourbon [natural] espresso

Alexander Vargas - Pink Bourbon [natural] espresso

This Pink Bourbon is very clean, pretty hard to even pick it’s a natural… It’s very juicy, with flavours of honeysuckle, pink grapefruit & pineapple.

Roasted 12 MAR 2026
$32.00
$32.00
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About the farmer(s)

Alexander Vargas - Pink Bourbon [natural] — Colombia

Alexander has been growing coffee since he was 15. He has now spent 20 years perfecting his skills & experimenting with different cultivars & processing techniques. In this time he has been awarded as a Cup of Excellence finalist four times. Alexander also helps out in the community, mentoring younger coffee farmers. Before harvesting this lot, the degree of ripeness was measured for sugar content to ensure ripeness. The coffee was then floated to seperate under/over-ripe cherries, sticks & leaves, dry-fermented for 72 hours, wet fermented in large tanks with de-gassing valves for 98 hours & then dried on raised beds until the moisture reduced to 11%. After resting the dry flesh is mechanically removed.

  • region Los Olivos, Palestina
  • farm/farmer La Piragua
  • altitude 1600-1800 meters
  • crop 2025
  • cultivar Pink Bourbon
  • process Natural

This lot is 100% Pink Bourbon, a natural mutation of Typica originating from what was called Île Bourbon. The colour of the cherries can be either yellow, red, orange, or in this case pink when ripe. The "pink" mutation was first noticed at a farm in San Adolfo, Huila, Colombia.

Brew guide

This is a light espresso roast. Roasted to bring out the fruity flavours of the coffee. This style of roast is best suited for black espresso based drinks. That said, you can still make a tasty flat white out of this roast.

  1. Black

    • dose 18g
    • Brew weight 40-45g
    • Brew time 25-30 seconds

  2. White

    • dose 18g
    • Brew weight 27-36g
    • Brew time 30 seconds

For any help on coffee brewing of all methods i.e. espresso, plunger etc fire an email through to espresso@rocketcoffee.co.nz

Ripening coffee cherries at La Piragua.

Alexander Vargas in his parabolic dryer.