A brief introduction to the pointed body bourbon of low-caffeine natural low-caffeine coffee beans

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Pointed Bourbon (Bourbon Pointu): found in Bourbon Island in 1810, beans changed from round to pointed, with only half the caffeine content, but in small amounts, weak and extremely precious (mostly cultivated in the laboratory).

Around 1810, Rayloy, a coffee farmer on the island, found that some coffee trees on the estate had become smaller and produced pointed beans, which were significantly different from the original bourbon beans. After French botanists do believe that the bourbon variety, and named "pointed body bourbon".

However, this rare pointed bourbon, due to its very low caffeine content, also weakens its ability to resist insect pests, making it difficult to grow and quantify, coupled with the hurricane climate on the island of Reunion and the subsequent prosperity of the sugar industry. Sugar cane cultivation gradually replaced coffee cultivation, pointed bourbon also disappeared in the world coffee history, has become a legend.

It was not until 1999-2007, when Japanese coffee expert Yoshihiro Kawashima worked with local botanists in Reunion to rejuvenate the rare coffee bean that it regained its charm.

Because of its good flavor and low caffeine content (which does not affect sleep), sharp bourbon has been popular as early as the 18th century, with many celebrities, such as French King Louise 15, and the novelist Balzac is a "fan". During the two hundred years of the 19th century, the sharp bourbon was widely planted on the island of bourbon, and its annual production reached a peak of 4,000 metric tons in 1800, but then a series of disasters such as hurricanes, fire ants and leaf rust followed, so that the planting decreased. Finally, in 1942, the last batch of sharp bourbon was shipped back to France, leaving only a pitiful 200 kilograms, and since then, sharp bourbon disappeared without a trace. Even the official documents are no longer mentioned. After the 1950s, coffee was no longer grown on Reunion, and agriculture on the island turned completely to other crops such as sugar cane. Coffee was no longer associated with Reunion, while pointed bourbon was recognized by the coffee industry as "extinct."

In view of this bean, it disappeared for half a century and did not reappear until eight years ago, resulting in the Bourbon pointed body of the country of origin La Reunion Island in the international market. After the price reached more than 500yuan per 100g, Colombia also began to grow this bean, and only Camilo Merizalde, which is the source of many WBC champion beans, dared to take over the transplant of this bean, so this coffee bean, which produces only a few tons of coffee every year, is expensive.

Flavor description in the file: bright sour taste, blueberry, vanilla smell, velvety smoothness

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