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Pointy bourbon was once considered "extinct" in the coffee world, and its reappearance is due to a Japanese coffee expert, Jose Yoshiaki Kawashima.

More than ten years ago, two legendary coffee varieties appeared and shocked the whole coffee world. These two varieties, one is geisha, the other is pointy bourbon.

Bourbon Pointu has two other names, Laurina and Leroy. It is called pointed bourbon because the bean is narrow and pointed at both ends, while the original bourbon (some call it round bourbon) is shorter and slightly elliptical in outline. However, the biggest difference between the two is not in appearance, but in flavor and caffeine content. If we use simple words to describe sharp bourbon, it is "good flavor, low caffeine content." According to statistics, the caffeine content of ordinary coffee beans is 0.9~1.2% Arabica, 1.6~2.4% Robasta [Note 8], while the sharp bourbon is only 0.6%, which is much lower than ordinary Arabica coffee and much lower than Robasta. It is a good news for many people who can't stand too much caffeine but love coffee.

Kawashima heard the name of pointy bourbon from experts at the National Coffee Research Institute. Although experts believe that pointy bourbon is extinct, he has a dream in his heart that he may still find it. In 1999, on a business trip to East Africa, I took the opportunity to visit the neighboring island of Reunion and asked local people to accompany me in searching for possible remnants of pointy bourbon. He found that many of the island's young people did not even know that Reunion had historically been an important coffee producing area, and that the famous "bourbon" variety originated here. According to Kawashima's recollection, there was once a young man who took him to the supermarket, thinking that what he was looking for was coffee beans on the shelf.

A short period of time to find, and did not get any results, Kawashima disappointed to return to Japan, thinking that his dream was finally shattered. But two years later, a local veterinarian who had accompanied him in his search for pointy bourbon found 30 coffee trees in the wild and immediately informed Kawashima, who immediately rushed to Reunion, and confirmed that the 30 coffee trees were pointy bourbon. Finally, under the cooperation of UCC and French officials, after five years of rehabilitation, in 2007 there was a preliminary result: 700 kg of coffee beans.