Varieties.
A concise field guide to the names in the book. Variety sets the context; the cup and the place still decide each lot.
Gesha
The famous stone · Score 86-88Also written Geisha. The house keeps one spelling and grades every lot anew.
02Maragogipe
The large bean · Score 82-86A nineteenth-century Typica mutation recognised first by scale.
03Bourbon Aruzi
A scarcity lot · Score 88+A rare Colombian-grown line bought only against a confirmed sample.
04Ombligón
A scarcity lot · Score 88+A distinctive Colombian selection released in very small counts.
Pink Bourbon
The flagship · Score 86-88A Colombian name that survived long enough for genetics to correct the record.
06Chiroso
The Antioquian original · Score 86-88One town, one valley, one name that the wider trade learned late.
07Tabi
The hidden stone · Score 84-87A Colombian research line whose name means good in the Guambiano language.
08Sidra
The quiet signal · Score 86-88An Ecuadorian emergence now finding a distinct expression in Colombia.
Caturra
The workhorse · Score 84-85The compact tree behind much of Colombia's twentieth-century coffee.
10Castillo
The modern Colombian line · Score 84-85Cenicafé's rust-tolerant answer, judged here by the cup rather than reputation.
11Red Bourbon
The heritage line · Score 84-85From Yemen to Réunion, then through Brazil into the Americas.
12Typica
The old line · Score 84-85A lineage carried through one of coffee's narrowest historical passages.