Arnuad Causse Bourbon

Variety: 100% Bourbon

Farm: Terrazas del Pisque

Region: Pichincha, Ecuador

Elevation: 1900-2000 meters

Harvest: July 2024

Notes: Dried cherry, blackberry, balanced. 

Arnaud's coffees are back this year with a refined touch. I have a love for his Bourbon production. Though it may not be the loudest coffee, it is certainly a clean and comforting profile. Arnaud executes the baseline characteristics of a well maturated Bourbon, it's got a heavy-weighted viscosity. This profile firmly presents dark cherry acidity. The cup is remniscient of a classic Bourbon from Latin America, syrupy mouthfeel with tenuto tones of cacao fruit, melon & bosch pear. 

Arnaud Causse is one of the most interesting coffee farmers we have come across over the years. He's an agricultural engineer that has been expirementing within the practice of forest-grown coffee. The work with his farm Terrazas del Pisque is a project that he is improving upon with each season. With the Pisque river running nearby, Arnaud has cultivated a biodynamic coffee paradise. Where there are coffee trees, there are also fruit trees planted, eucalyptus, plants for nitrogen fixation and even bee hives included to strengthen the ecosystem. The work on the farm is is more involved and detailed than typical mono-crop farming. His results are differentiated with happy-healthy coffee plants surrounded by a farm full of life. After tasting coffees from all types of farms, Arnaud's bio-dynamic farming practice packs more into the cherry seed.

Bourbon has been hard to grow successfully, it's becoming more and more rare as other varieties are favored by farmers.   We are glad to see it doing so well under the care of Arnaud & that we are able to share this offering with you.

Order by Sunday for Monday's roast. 

Best brewed after a few weeks to a few months after the roast date.