Pointed bourbon

The pointed Bourbon is a variety of Café obtained starting from a Mutation selected Café Bourbon which has occurred in 1810 on the island Bourbon in the Plantation Leroy, which is worth to him also the name of coffee Leroy . A long time almost disappeared, the culture of this Cultivar of the coffee-tree of Arabia ( Coffea arabica cv. laurina ) is started again today with the Réunion, but also in Guadeloupe and New Caledonia, from the point of view of a production top-of-the-range.

Description

Botany

This coffee is obtained starting from a Cultivar coffee-tree of Arabia resulting from a Mutation of the variety Bourbon to the 19th century and called “ change laurina ”. This variety (or this cultivar) is him even indicated under the scientific name Coffea arabica VAr. laurina (or Coffea arabica cv. laurina ), and one shortens sometimes these notations in the binomial form Coffea laurina , which is erroneous, because it is not a question of with whole share.

Of conical form and resistant to the Dryness.

The delicate Arôme of the coffee makes the delights of the experts at the 18th century, in particular Louis XV. At the next century, Honore de Balzac would have also been very fond of delicacies.

Meanwhile, the production reached a peak of: 4000 tons in 1800.

The culture is however introduced in New Caledonia by Marist brothers réunionnais following the taking possession by the France of the Archipel Oceania N required by Napoleon III. Thus in 1911 the specialist in the coffee called Paul Jobin could discover that one sold Leroy coffee with Paris - marketed by a Inhabitant of Martinique called Armogum, this coffee came from New Caledonia. It establishes contacts with the colony, formed a company called Havre Calédonienne and launched publicity campaigns to promote the variety in Metropolitan France. It is the one forty years period beginning records for the culture of the coffee in the archipelago of the Pacifique.

Starts again

Specialist in the coffee acting as researcher of the CIRAD of Montpellier, called “ the fireman of the coffee ” by his colleagues, Frederic Descroix is dispatched on mission to carry out the selection of the experimentative farmers. He retains of them 90 in all the more or less wet areas of the Meeting, and in particular with Three-Basins, the Wood-of-Medlars Saint-Paul, the Tampon, the Plain-of-Cabbage trees, Small-Island, the Petite France, Green Mont the Tops, in the heights of the Possession, with Holy-Sizanne or Saint-Benoît. The diversity of the sites makes it possible to test a Fermentation coffee with eight degrees Celsius the Nuit in certain places and to seventeen elsewhere on April 14th, 2007 and concerns a little more: 2200 packages of one hundred Gram S made from two ton S of coffee beans collected in 2006.

Varieties, coffee vintages and assemblies
Endémisme with the Meeting

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