This Pink Bourbon coffee is from Rafael Aya Martinez at La Virginia farm in Timana, Huila, Colombia, grown at 1880 meters altitude. The coffee is washed processed. Rafael Aya has over 20 years of experience growing coffee and cultivates three and a half hectares alongside fruits, vegetables, and sugarcane. The farm features a unique geography with a river valley and utilizes a cable car system for harvesting. Since 2016, Rafa has been innovating to improve quality, and his coffee has won international championships.
Vivid Coffee was founded in 2015 by Ian Bailey in Winooski, Vermont, initially roasting on a five kilo machine in the back of a local ice cream parlor. Bailey built the company around direct relationships with small farms, in some cases purchasing entire harvests year after year to provide producers with stability and predictability. The roasting style is clean and precise, designed to let each coffee's terroir speak without interference. Vivid's sourcing framework is values driven, shaped by the realities of climate change, coffee plant disease, and the global coffee price crisis that affect the producers it works with.
