Introduction to the characteristics of taste quality of pointed bourbon coffee bean flavor description treatment

Pointed bourbon coffee beans

Although natural variation is not very rare, it often leads to varieties with very poor flavor and no commercial value, and the result of this bean variation is a more rich and bright sour and sweet taste and "elegant taste spectrum" (Han Huaizong). And 50% lower caffeine than the average Arabica coffee bean: an average of 0.6% (on average, Arabica beans are about 1.2%. Robusta is around 2.2%. In coffee trees, the mutation of lower caffeine is rare from a natural evolutionary point of view, because caffeine is an important means of resisting diseases and insect pests in nature, and the lower caffeine is, the worse the plant's ability to resist diseases and pests. So from the perspective of natural selection, coffee trees naturally tend to evolve towards higher caffeine.

The completely opposite variation of pointed bourbon not only produces excellent taste fruit, but also leads to the inherent defects of poor disease resistance and low yield of the variety.

Originally, the residents of Bourbon Island used to rely on the coffee industry as their main source of income, but the climate of this island is relatively dry, Rain Water is less, and the production cost is high. By the middle of the 20th century, the cost of coffee production on Bourbon Island has been much higher than that of emerging coffee-producing countries such as Central and South America. Islanders have switched to cash crops such as sugar cane with higher profits, and almost no one on Bourbon Island has grown coffee since 1950. People thought that this unique variety was extinct. Until 2001, Yoshihiro Kawashima, a coffee expert at UCC, found more than 30 plants in the wild through local farmers on Bourbon Island, and it was only after joint identification by the French government that he finally found the variant bourbon, which had been extinct for half a century. In the same year, UCC and the French International Centre for Agricultural Development (CIRAD) jointly launched a rehabilitation program on Bourbon Island.

After 6 years of hard cultivation, the first batch of 700 kg coffee beans was obtained in 2006. It was first sold in Britain and Japan in April 2007, and the price in Japan is about 450 yuan per 100 grams. In 2010, it rose to nearly 500 yuan, and in 2011 it broke through the 500 yuan mark per 100 grams. To this day, the annual output of this bean fluctuates around one ton around the world, which is less abnormal than other beans with an annual output of hundreds of thousands of tons.

Because of its unique taste and naturally decaffeinated nature, this coffee has always been a favorite of Balzac and a favorite of Churchill and former French President Hillary Clinton.