Helm Coffee Roasters - Hacienda El Obraje Washed Pink Bourbon | Colombia

Colombia — Pablo Andrés Guerrero Hacienda El Obraje Pink Bourbon (Washed)

Tastes Like — 🌸 Jasmine • 🍇 White Grape • ✨ Sparkling Acidity • 🍋 Yuzu

DETAILS

• Producer: Pablo Andrés Guerrero
• Farm: Hacienda El Obraje
• Region: Tangua, Nariño, Colombia
• Varietal: Pink Bourbon
• Process: Washed
• Elevation: 2,200 masl

INTRO Hacienda El Obraje wasn't always a coffee farm — the Guerrero family grew wheat in Tangua for generations, until imports crashed domestic prices in the 1990s and Pablo went searching for a crop worth betting on. That bet paid off publicly in 2021, when El Obraje took first place at the Colombia Cup of Excellence. Precise and expressive, jasmine leads, with white grape sweetness through the middle and a sparkling, yuzu-bright finish. In the cup: jasmine, white grape, sparkling acidity, and yuzu.

THE PRODUCER Pablo planted his first coffee trees in 2000, the first of any of his neighbours, and by 2009 had built his own wet mill on the farm. Nariño sits in Colombia's far south, where proximity to the equator lets coffee thrive at elevations that would be impossible almost anywhere else. At 2,200 meters, intense daytime sun and sharply cold nights slow cherry maturation to a crawl — the extended ripening where Pink Bourbon earns its reputation, with sugars concentrating gradually, acids staying bright, and the variety's signature florality having time to fully form in volcanic soil.

THE PROCESS This lot is classically processed and deliberately simple. Cherries are floated and sorted, then fermented whole in sealed bags for 36 hours before being depulped and dry-fermented in barrels for another 12 hours.

This minimal-intervention approach is the defining choice — nothing in the process is there to add character, only to protect what the variety and the mountain already built, letting the jasmine and yuzu-bright acidity speak for themselves.

THE CUP Pink Bourbon at its most articulate — jasmine up front, white grape sweetness through the middle, and a sparkling, yuzu-bright finish that carries long past the sip. Precise, expressive, and unmistakably Nariño.

Flavour Notes 🌸 Jasmine 🍇 White Grape ✨ Sparkling Acidity 🍋 Yuzu