Colombia Granja Paraíso 92 - Pink Bourbon

Notes of strawberry, white Grape, sangria.

Varietals: Pink Bourbon
Region: Piendamó, Cauca, Colombia
Altitude: 1900 MASL
Processing: Washed with Thermal Shock
Fermentation: Anaerobic

This pink bourbon from Granja Paraíso 92 has been washed & thermoshocked, producing some of the wildest notes we have ever had out of a region renowned for its cup quality. This is, without a doubt, the most impressive example of a washed pink bourbon lot we have ever tasted.

Wilton Benitez is part mad scientist, part engineer, part coffee farmer. He has been producing coffee for 28 years, 18 of which he has exclusively been focused on specialty coffee. With the help of his brother, he designs and builds all of the industry leading equipment that he uses to process coffee on his farm. He uses bio-reactors, that he built for controlled fermentation, as well as being able to maintain control of factors like temperature, pH, and brix. This is no small endeavour and requires a huge amount of dedication to the process. Once the washed parchment has been processed, he transfers the coffee to eco-dryers, again which he built, that run on meagre amounts of electricity, and allow to completely recycle the water that has been removed from the processed coffee. To our knowledge, he is the only coffee farm in the world to do this.

Andrew had the opportunity to visit Wilton in October of 2023, after meeting him in El Salvador in March of that year and had a phenomenal 3 days at his farm with him & his team. We've been purchasing his coffees ever since and welcomed him to our shop in Spring of 2025. His farm is a beautiful eco-system filled with local species of birds, animals, plants, all the which is surrounded by extremely healthy vegetation amongst one hundred hectares of specialty coffee, and we love purchasing his coffees.