This stunning coffee from Nelson Rodriguez is a single lot of Pink Bourbon varietal grown on his family farm, a unique and rare varietal cultivated from hybridizing Red and Yellow Bourbon. It produces a beautiful cup, with extremely sweet cotton candy flavors.

Nelson is a member of the Los Guácharos association, a really inspiring group of producers in southern Huila who are making huge advancements in coffee agriculture in their region. Collectively, they are converting to organic agriculture, producing their own fertilizers and pesticides, and introducing sophisticated water filtration system to minimize waste in processing. Nelson himself produces a bio-fertilizing brew on his farm, while maintaining a compost system and pruning his trees.

In addition to these monumental shifts to more ecologically focused coffee production, Los Guácharos is incredibly focused on their producers’ coffee quality, training in everything from agronomy to latte art, collectively paying for organic agriculture consultancy, and working to improve each others farms with water filtration systems and organic fertilizers. Associations like Los Guácharos are what make buying Colombian coffees such a joy for us, knowing that the wonderful cups we brew are at the end of a long chain of incredible work towards sustainability and quality.