PureGusto Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon Coffee
3-Time Great Taste Award-Winning Single Estate Coffee
Sweet Plum | Stone Fruit | Nutty Caramel | Warming Spice
Meet PureGusto Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon, a beautifully clean and elegant single estate coffee created for those who appreciate genuine origin character in every cup.
Grown at 1,200 to 1,500 metres above sea level on a Rainforest Alliance certified farm, the coffee benefits from exceptionally fertile volcanic soil and high-altitude growing conditions. The result is a distinctive Arabica coffee with wonderful sweetness, refined acidity and impressive clarity.
In the cup, expect ripe sweet plum and stone fruit, followed by smooth nutty caramel and a gently warming spiced finish. As an espresso it develops a wonderfully creamy texture, bringing sweetness, acidity and body together in a beautifully balanced cup.
Its quality has also earned significant independent recognition:
PureGusto Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon is a 3-Time Great Taste Award Winner.
What Makes Yellow Bourbon Special?
Yellow Bourbon is a distinctive coffee variety named for the vibrant yellow colour of its ripe coffee cherries.
It is prized by speciality coffee drinkers for its potential to produce beautifully sweet and expressive coffees, particularly when cultivated at altitude and carefully harvested.
Santa Rosa demonstrates exactly why this variety deserves attention.
Selective picking and careful sorting at origin help deliver an exceptionally clean cup, allowing its natural fruit, caramel and spice characteristics to shine without unwanted bitterness or distraction.
This is coffee with a genuine sense of place.
What Does Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon Taste Like?
Santa Rosa is all about clarity, sweetness and balance.
Aroma:
Sweet and inviting with caramel, ripe fruit and delicate warm spice.
First Sip:
Bright and beautifully clean, opening with juicy plum and refined stone fruit acidity.
Body:
Creamy and rounded with enough weight to produce a satisfying espresso without overwhelming the more delicate fruit characteristics.
Flavour:
Sweet plum and stone fruit lead into smooth nutty caramel with subtle warming spice developing as the coffee cools.
Finish:
Clean, balanced and lingering, leaving a pleasant combination of caramel sweetness and gentle spice.
Tasting Notes
Sweet Plum | Stone Fruit | Nutty Caramel | Warming Spice
Variety: Yellow Bourbon
Origin: Single Estate
Altitude: 1,200 to 1,500m
Roast: City Roast
Body: Creamy & Rounded
Acidity: Bright & Refined
Sweetness: Caramel-Led
Finish: Clean & Gently Spiced
Exceptional as Espresso
Santa Rosa makes a particularly impressive espresso.
The concentrated extraction brings forward its nutty caramel sweetness and creamy body, while the plum and stone fruit acidity provides enough brightness to keep the cup lively and beautifully balanced.
Rather than relying on heavy roast character for intensity, Santa Rosa gets its personality from the coffee itself.
The result is an espresso that is clean, sweet, aromatic and remarkably easy to drink.
Beautiful with Milk
Add finely textured milk and the profile becomes softer and more indulgent.
The natural caramel and nutty characteristics complement the sweetness of steamed milk beautifully, while the underlying fruit acidity prevents the finished drink from becoming flat or overly sweet.
It performs particularly well as a:
- Flat White
- Cappuccino
- Cortado
- Cafe Latte
- Macchiato
For customers who enjoy a smooth coffee with plenty of sweetness but still want to taste the character of the bean, Santa Rosa is an excellent choice.
Equally Rewarding as a Longer Coffee
Santa Rosa is not limited to the espresso machine.
Its clean cup profile and defined fruit characteristics make it particularly enjoyable when prepared as an Americano, filter coffee or cafetiere.
Longer brewing allows the brighter side of the coffee to open up, revealing more of its sweet plum, stone fruit and gentle spiced character.
For black coffee drinkers, this is where Santa Rosa can really impress.
3-Time Great Taste Award Winner
Producing an excellent coffee once is one thing. Achieving repeated independent recognition demonstrates something more.
Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon has been awarded Great Taste recognition three times, reinforcing its position as one of the standout coffees within the PureGusto collection.
It is a coffee selected not simply for an unusual name or origin story, but because the quality translates directly into the cup.
For professional coffee operators, that also creates a compelling customer proposition:
Single estate. Distinctive Yellow Bourbon variety. Rainforest Alliance certified. Three-time Great Taste Award winner.
Grown High in Fertile Volcanic Soil
Great coffee starts long before roasting.
Santa Rosa is cultivated on a Rainforest Alliance certified farm at approximately 1,200 to 1,500 metres above sea level, where fertile volcanic soil provides excellent growing conditions for high-quality Arabica coffee.
Altitude helps the coffee cherries develop gradually, allowing greater complexity to form before harvesting.
Careful picking and sorting then help remove underripe fruit and defects, resulting in the exceptionally clean and elegant character found in the finished cup.
Convection Roasted in the UK
Once this exceptional green coffee reaches us, careful roasting is essential.
Santa Rosa is convection roasted here in the UK, using controlled streams of hot air to roast the coffee evenly and develop its natural characteristics.
We roast Santa Rosa to a city roast, allowing sufficient development to produce its creamy body and caramel sweetness without overwhelming the delicate fruit acidity and origin character.
The objective is balance.
Sweet enough to be comforting. Bright enough to be interesting. Clean enough to let the coffee speak for itself.
Rainforest Alliance Certified
Exceptional coffee should have more than exceptional flavour.
Santa Rosa originates from a Rainforest Alliance certified farm, making it an excellent option for businesses and coffee drinkers looking for a premium coffee with recognised sustainability credentials.
For cafes, restaurants, hotels and workplaces, this provides another meaningful story to communicate alongside its distinctive variety and Great Taste Awards.
A Standout Coffee for Professional Menus
Santa Rosa is an excellent choice for businesses wanting to move beyond an anonymous house blend and give customers something with a genuine story.
Its approachable caramel sweetness makes it accessible to everyday coffee drinkers, while its Yellow Bourbon variety, high-altitude cultivation and fruit-led complexity provide plenty to interest more experienced coffee enthusiasts.
Serve it as your premium house coffee, feature it as a guest espresso or use its 3-Time Great Taste Award-winning credentials to give customers another reason to try something new.
Why Choose PureGusto Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon?
- 3-Time Great Taste Award Winner
- Distinctive Single Estate Yellow Bourbon Coffee
- Sweet Plum, Stone Fruit, Caramel & Warming Spice
- Rainforest Alliance certified
- Grown at approximately 1,200 to 1,500 metres
- Cultivated in fertile volcanic soil
- Clean and elegant cup profile
- Creamy, balanced espresso
- Excellent black or with milk
- Convection roasted in the UK
- Available as whole bean or freshly ground
- Professional 6 x 1kg case
Our Recommended Serve
Santa Rosa Flat White
Extract Santa Rosa as a double espresso and combine with finely textured steamed milk.
The milk enhances the coffee's nutty caramel sweetness and creamy body, while the shorter ratio retains enough of its plum and stone fruit character to keep the drink beautifully balanced.
The result is smooth, sweet and sophisticated, with a gentle warming finish.
For black coffee drinkers, we also strongly recommend trying Santa Rosa as an Americano to experience more of its natural fruit character.
PureGusto Santa Rosa Yellow Bourbon
Sweet fruit. Creamy caramel. Warming spice. Exceptional clarity.
Santa Rosa is a coffee for customers who want more than roast and strength.
Its distinctive Yellow Bourbon character delivers layers of sweet plum, stone fruit, nutty caramel and warm spice, all wrapped within a clean and beautifully balanced cup.
From its high-altitude origins and Rainforest Alliance certification to its careful convection roasting and three Great Taste Awards, every element contributes to a coffee with genuine character.
One distinctive variety. One exceptional estate. One seriously good cup of coffee.
