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Yana Milena Quintero — SEY Coffee

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TRADITIONAL PROCESSOur reviewPurchased by us
TagsColombiaHuilaPink BourbonWashedLight roastRoseArabicaSingle originSpecialtyYana Milena Quintero's Pink Bourbon gardenYana Milena QuinteroSey CoffeeIndependentOur review

A flawless, luminous Pink Bourbon: rose hips on the nose, tangerine and mulberry in the cup, and a finish that refuses to leave. SEY's sourcing and Yana Milena Quintero's garden meet at exactly the right moment. Five stars.

Our rating
4.8 out of Five Stars
4.8/5 on our star rating scale
🇨🇴ColombiaWashedPink BourbonLight roast
Brand
SEY Coffee
Roaster website
Visit website
Country
🇨🇴Colombia
Region
Huila
Town
Santa María
Farm / Station
Yana Milena Quintero's Pink Bourbon garden
Farmer / Producer
Yana Milena Quintero
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Pink Bourbon
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Rose Hips, Tangerine, Mulberry
Fermentation
Dry-fermented for 24 hours after depulping, following a 24-hour in-cherry rest before pulping.
Drying
Dried on raised beds for 15 days.
Product page
Roaster's site
Date reviewed
Oct 25, 2026
Editorial disclosure: Purchased by us
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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Yana Milena Quintero — SEY Coffee
  2. 02
    The brand
    SEY Coffee
  3. 03
    The roaster
    Sey Coffee
  4. 04
    The variety
    Pink Bourbon
  5. 05
    The farm
    Yana Milena Quintero's Pink Bourbon garden
  6. 06
    The farmer
    Yana Milena Quintero
  7. 07
    The region
    Huila
  8. 08
    The country
    🇨🇴Colombia
From the producer

Yana Milena Quintero is a new producer to SEY, first encountered through the roaster's sourcing work around Quintero. Her Pink Bourbon garden sits in Santa Maria, Huila, and this Lote 1 selection is her first coffee featured by SEY.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based roastery dedicated to sourcing and roasting dynamic, complex coffees that highlight the work of their producing partners. They employ a delicate, light-roast approach to preserve the unique characteristics of each origin.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release marks the roaster's first time working with Yana Milena Quintero, whose Pink Bourbon garden in Santa María, Huila, produces exceptional coffee. The lot is notable for its precise processing and vibrant, fruit-forward flavor profile.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Hand-picking and floating

Cherries are hand-picked at peak ripeness and floated to remove defects before anything else happens.

02
24 hours in-cherry

The whole cherries rest intact for 24 hours before depulping, an early oxidation-and-rest step that shapes the fruit character.

03
Dry fermentation, 24 hours

After depulping, the beans dry-ferment for another 24 hours before washing.

04
Slow raised-bed drying

Washed beans dry on raised beds for 15 days, a pace that protects delicate florals.

What was added?

Nothing. This is a fully washed process with no inoculants, fruit, or additives.

What wasn't added?

No yeasts, fruit musts, or flavorings of any kind.

Why it matters

The extended in-cherry rest and dry fermentation are quiet, patient craft, not gimmicks: they deepen the fruit without turning the cup into a ferment bomb.

What you might taste

Floral, citrus, and dark-berry clarity: rose hips, tangerine, and mulberry.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://sey.coffee
Our review

The full tasting

The first sip

This is the kind of cup that reorganizes your morning. The aroma alone, rose hips lifted and delicate, would carry the bag, but the first sip adds tangerine brightness over a mulberry depth that grounds the whole thing. It is intensely flavored and utterly composed, acidity like cut glass with no sharp edge anywhere.

What we tasted

The label promises rose hips, tangerine, and mulberry, and each shows up in layers rather than blur. Rose hips arrive first, floral and faintly tart. The tangerine is juicy and precise, the clearest citrus note we have tasted in months. Mulberry rounds out the mid-palate with a dark, winey sweetness. The body is lighter, silky, almost tea-like, and the finish is long and floral, lingering for a full minute. The only reason any sub-score sits below five is that dainty body; the flavors themselves are complete.

The story in the bag

SEY publishes the money, right on the card: 3.8 million Colombian pesos per carga at farm gate in parchment, $12.66 per kilogram green, $14.16 FOB, $18.37 FOT. Almost no roaster in the world is this transparent. Behind the numbers is Yana Milena Quintero's Pink Bourbon garden in Santa Maria, Huila, a variety whose seeds and plants so closely resemble an Ethiopian landrace that its true identity remains genetically untested. This is her first coffee with SEY, and Lote 1 sets a high bar.

Who this is for

Anyone who believes coffee can taste like flowers and still taste like coffee. If you chase Ethiopian florals or bright washed Colombians, this is a benchmark bag. We scored it 97, five stars: a landmark cup from a producer we expect to hear much more about.

How we'd brew it

Brew it as a pour over at a medium-fine grind, 1 to 16 ratio with water just off the boil, and give the bloom a full 45 seconds; the rose-hip floral opens dramatically as the cup cools. It also made a stunning, tea-like cup on a Clever dripper at 1 to 15.

Yana Milena Quintero — SEY Coffee — supplied coffee image 1
Bag — front
Yana Milena Quintero — SEY Coffee — supplied coffee image 2
Bag — back
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Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Yana Milena Quintero — SEY Coffee; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Our star ratings
Aroma
5.0
Flavor
5.0
Balance
5.0
Body & Mouthfeel
4.5
Finish
5.0
Overall
5.0
The final rating
Average of all six criteria
4.9/ 5
The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-26) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Yana Milena Quintero's Pink Bourbon garden →Meet the farmer: Yana Milena Quintero →
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