Originating from the botanical garden of Coffea Diversa, this lot highlights the Bourbon Pointu variety, also known as Laurina Pointed, a rare coffee with a distinctive genetic heritage.
Coffea Diversa is a pioneering project founded in the early 2000s by José Padilla and Gonzalo Hernández, driven by a radically different vision of traditional coffee farming. Designed as a coffee botanical garden, the project focuses on preserving, observing, and showcasing coffee’s genetic diversity through the cultivation of hundreds of rare botanical varieties. Today, Coffea Diversa hosts the world’s largest private collection of coffee botanical varieties, with more than 800 specimens, only a portion of which are currently produced as micro-lots.
Bourbon Pointu originated in the mid-19th century on Bourbon Island, now known as La Réunion. It is generally considered a natural mutation of Bourbon, although another theory suggests it may result from a natural cross between Coffea mauritiana and Coffea arabica Typica. The Bourbon Pointu, or Laurina Pointed, variety is characterized by a compact tree structure, short branches, narrow leaves, and elongated beans pointed on one end.
Highly susceptible to diseases—particularly coffee leaf rust—this variety has extremely low yields, which explains its rarity in production. It is also notable for its naturally very low caffeine content, around 0.5%, as well as for cherries that mature earlier than those of many other varieties.
This careful work allows the full aromatic potential of Bourbon Pointu to be expressed, revealing clean, delicate, and elegant profiles closely linked to its unique genetic heritage.
Packaging: 20 kg bags.
