Vladimir Calambás

Borbón de la montaña, "mountain bourbon," originated on an old mountain top estate near the village of San Vicente. This estate had long grown bourbon, one of the major varieties of coffee grown throughout the world and commonly seen on traditional Colombian coffee farms (particularly older farms that have not been replanted with new, disease resistant cultivars like castillo). Coffee farms at such extreme elevations often struggle with productivity due to the cold weather, so when the producer observed one of his trees outperforming all of the others, he began to cultivate more with seeds from that same tree. Soon, others in the area began planting this cultivar as well, before many were aware of its unique flavor profile...