Colombia - Cota Coffee Finca Rio Negro Pink Bourbon - Zest life

COTA Cafe began with two friends hoping to fund plane tickets between Thailand and Colombia. But this personal adventure quickly grew into a shared commitment to showcasing the remarkable breadth of Colombian coffee.

Recognizing growing interest in Colombia alongside limited options for exporters, they began connecting roasters with diverse coffees at accessible prices. A few kilos of green coffee sent to shipping containers quickly became a distribution chain across 15 countries throughout East and West Asia, with Singapore serving as COTA’s primary distribution hub.

Working directly with producers like Finca Rio Negro across Colombia's many coffee-growing regions, COTA seeks out lots that offer thoughtfully crafted, novel cup profiles shaped by bold experimentation with post-harvest processing to cater to coffee lovers whose taste preferences tend toward more intense and pronounced flavors.

The Pink Bourbon variety is a hybrid cultivar widely grown in southern Huila, known for its high cup quality and unique floral and fruit characteristics. While often mistaken for a mutation of Bourbon, genetic analysis has reportedly indicated it is related to Ethiopian landraces.

To shape an intensely floral, aromatic, and juicy cup, COTA Cafe and Finca Rio Negro deliberately enhanced microbial action through co-fermentation.

Transparency guides every step of COTA Cafe’s journey. Their packaging information, which includes harvest and dry milling dates,create detailed traceability that helps roasters understand the freshness and provenance of every coffee they receive.

Across washed, natural, and experimental processes, COTA and its partner farms, like Finca Anaya, explore the many expressions producers can draw from variety, terroir, and craft to showcase the extraordinary range of Colombian coffee.