La Muralla

About This Coffee

Many producers in La Muralla, a small neighborhood in San Agustín, have planted Pink Bourbon over the years. Many of these lots are small yet showcase excellent quality. This blend of neighboring lots offers a classic Pink Bourbon profile of raspberry, blueberry, and limeade. Deciding whether to blend or keep a coffee separate involves factors like quality, score, and the creation of specific flavor profiles, or sometimes the novelty of isolating a lot from a remote hill. At SEY, we focus on showcasing clean representations of variety and terroir, which is why we work almost exclusively with single-producer, variety-separated micro lots. In this case, however, we found it compelling to preserve varietal purity by blending multiple producers’ harvests of the same variety rather than mixing different varieties from a single producer. This 100% Gesha lot from the La Muralla neighborhood exemplifies Gesha grown in one of Colombia’s most iconic terroirs: San Agustín. Pink Bourbon is a relatively new variety being grown primarily in and around Huila, Colombia. The variety has been identified genetically as an Ethiopian Landrace, but unfortunately, we cannot be any more specific as to its origins until there is a larger genetic database.