Colombia — Pink Phantom — Rose Honey Co-Ferment Pink Bourbon

Tastes Like — 🌹 Rose • 🍬 Turkish Delight • 🍋 Lemonade Ice Block • 🌿 Vanilla Bean • 🥭 Mango

DETAILS

Producer: Jario Arcila

Region: Colombia

Varietal: Pink Bourbon

Process: Rose Honey Co-Ferment

Size: 200g

INTRO

CO FERMS ARE BACK. This Rose tea honey co-ferment from Colombia by Jario Arcila is just a wonderful delight. SL.OW love co-ferments for the brightness they bring out in coffees — and they've never had this process before, making it a very exciting first for 2026.

Pink Phantom is a pink lemonade-style Colombian natural with bright florals, soft acidity, and fresh berries. Rose, Turkish delight, lemonade ice block, vanilla bean, mango — the cup reads like a fragrant garden party, and every note is exactly as promised.

THE PRODUCER

Jario Arcila is a name well known in Colombian specialty coffee circles. Based in the coffee-growing heartland of Colombia, Arcila has pioneered experimental co-fermentation techniques — particularly honey and floral co-ferments — that express the Pink Bourbon variety's extraordinary potential for sweetness and aromatic complexity. His work has influenced roasters globally and continues to push the frontier of what co-fermented Colombian coffee can achieve.

Pink Bourbon, confirmed by genetic analysis to be an Ethiopian landrace rather than a true Bourbon, is prized for its elevated glucose content, silky body, and pastel-bright florality. In Arcila's hands, co-fermented with rose tea, its natural expressiveness is amplified into something genuinely extraordinary.

THE PROCESS

The Rose Honey Co-Ferment process involves:

• 🍒 Selective Harvest — Only fully ripe Pink Bourbon cherries hand-picked
• ✅ Quality Sorting — Cherries sorted by density and ripeness
• 🌹 Rose Tea Co-Fermentation — Cherries undergo honey process fermentation with rose tea introduced as the co-fermenting agent, imparting floral aromatics and complexity
• ☀️ Honey Drying — Beans dried with mucilage intact on raised beds, developing sweetness and body
• ✅ Quality Control — Cupped and graded before export

The rose tea co-fermentation amplifies the Pink Bourbon's natural florality and sweetness, building the layered, fragrant complexity that makes Pink Phantom unlike anything from a conventional process.

THE CUP

An extraordinary cup — fragrant, layered, and unlike anything conventional. Rose leads on the nose with a delicacy that is almost perfume-like. The palate reveals Turkish delight sweetness, lemonade ice block brightness, vanilla bean warmth, and a mango-tropical finish that lingers beautifully. Soft acidity, silky body, a filter coffee that demands to be savoured slowly.

Flavour Notes

• 🌹 Rose
• 🍬 Turkish Delight
• 🍋 Lemonade Ice Block
• 🌿 Vanilla Bean
• 🥭 Mango