Avalanche Roasters - Diego Vergara Adv. Washed Pink Bourbon | Colombia

Colombia — Diego Vergara Finca Las Flores Pink Bourbon (Advanced Washed)

Tastes Like — 🍵 Rooibos • 🍍 Tropical Fruit • 🍊 Orange Panettone

DETAILS

• Producer: Diego Vergara
• Farm: Finca Las Flores
• Region: Huila, Colombia
• Varietal: Pink Bourbon
• Process: Advanced Washed
• Altitude: 1,750 masl

INTRO
Vibrantly rich and fruit-forward, this Pink Bourbon is treasured for its complex taste profile. Rooibos structure runs through the cup, with tropical fruit sweetness and an orange panettone richness. In the cup: rooibos, tropical fruit, and orange panettone.

THE PRODUCER
Diego Vergara is a progressive coffee producer at Finca Las Flores in Huila, Colombia's most prolific coffee-growing region. High altitude and volcanic soil mean the farms sit on rich, nitrogen-dense ash from the nearby Andean peaks and the Colombian Massif, while cloud cover limits sun exposure, creating microclimates that let cherries ripen slowly. That slow maturation concentrates sugars and builds dense, complex beans.

THE PROCESS
After careful picking, cherries are floated in water containing 5% alcohol, then undergo a 36-hour anaerobic fermentation before moving to open tanks for an oxidation stage. A second anaerobic fermentation follows once the cherries are depulped. The fermentation is then stopped abruptly with hot water, followed by quenching the beans in cold water, a temperature contrast that opens the pores on the bean surface to lock in the volatile compounds behind the coffee's depth of flavour. The coffee then dries in the sun under a canopy.

The hot-then-cold quench is the defining step. It locks in the volatile compounds built up through the double anaerobic fermentation, which is where the tropical fruit and panettone richness comes from.

THE CUP
Rich and fruit-forward: rooibos structure throughout, with tropical fruit sweetness and an orange panettone depth. Complex and layered.

Flavour Notes
🍵 Rooibos 🍍 Tropical Fruit 🍊 Orange Panettone