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05 · The Argument

Decide whether you approve.

Lot

22:22 · AUH · 2027 · 05

The house's method

Pour-over · ground medium-fine just before · water at 92°C · 1:16

Origin

Aroma Nativo, Pink Bourbon EFM Lot 1289, Colombia

Producer

Luis Marcelino

Variety · process

Pink Bourbon · honey double fermentation

House score

89+

Notes

Mango · lychee · peach · blood orange · passion fruit

The fifth cup is the producer as author: The fruit fermented twice under control, dried with the sugars still on the seed. One camp calls controlled fermentation the most exciting thing to happen to coffee in fifty years; another calls it flavour added rather than found, and several competitions restrict it. The house hands you both positions and lets you settle it with your own mouth.