{"product_id":"colombia-la-carmelita","title":"Colombia La Carmelita","description":"\u003cp\u003eTarciso Gonzales and his family were among the first producers to begin cultivating coffee in La Union in Huila. Now in his 70s, Tarcisio remembers arriving in the region and planting coffee with his family. He bought his own farm, Finca Carmelita, when he was a young man and continues to produce coffee to this day. “Coffee has given me everything I have,” Tarcisio has. He attributes his success to hard work. His dream was to see his children happy and graduated from university with professions of their own. Right now, 3 of his 4 children have graduated and are working as professionals. The youngest has not graduated yet, but Tarcisio hopes that they too will succeed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe hasn’t always cultivated specialty coffee, though. When Pink Bourbon started gaining popularity in Colombia, his sons, Yonatan and Julian, advised him to start planting a few trees of that variety. “Today, they are the ones bearing good fruit.” That was around 2011, when the “coffee crisis” of low prices and a Coffee Leaf Rust epidemic made it clear to Tarcisio that there was a need to create new markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Pink Bourbon \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePink Bourbon was previously thought to be a hybrid of Yellow and Red Bourbon varieties. The variety was first identified growing in and around Huila, Colombia. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/perfectdailygrind.com\/2023\/10\/pink-bourbon-specialty-coffee\/\"\u003eRecent research\u003c\/a\u003e has found that Pink Bourbon is in fact not Bourbon at all. Pink Bourbon mostly likely comes from an Ethiopian landrace variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePink Bourbon has a stunningly high cup potential that wows coffee professionals and consumers alike. Its impressively high cup quality makes even more sense now that we understand Pink Bourbon is not simply a hybrid of two Bourbon varieties but traces to Ethiopian landraces. Its siblings include the highly-prized Geisha, which has consistently produced incredibly high cup scores. Pink Bourbon will continue to be a highly distinguished and valued variety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome farmers also report that Pink Bourbon has more disease resistance than the Bourbons it grows alongside. Based on these new discoveries, this may be due to the genetic variety it has coming from Ethiopian landraces.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snack Coffee Roasters","offers":[{"title":"200 g","offer_id":45760949125251,"sku":null,"price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/0309\/2355\/files\/ColombiaLaCarmelita.jpg?v=1785998589","url":"https:\/\/snackcoffees.com\/bg\/products\/colombia-la-carmelita","provider":"Snack Coffee Roasters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}