We first met Luis Octavio Titimbo in 2016, and we’ve been buying coffee from him ever since! We’ve been increasingly featuring his coffee over this last 12 months, a result of both of new plantings (pink borbon and borbon aji varieties), and of enhanced fermentation practices.

This lot hails from Luis’s parcel of 5000 “borbon aji” plants, which he grows under the shade of native cachingo, at an altitude of around 1760 metres.

He has the “tall” version of this variety, which despite appearances, we know now to not be a borbon after all. ( The variety gained its name as producers found that cherries from these trees had an aroma and colour reminiscent of chilli  (aji means “chili” in Spanish). DNA testing in fact shows that it’s genetically distinct from ancestor seeds carried to the Americas centuries ago and is in fact a newly discovered Ethiopian Landrace, not a borbon at all.