Santo Antonio, Brazil

Origin

• 🇧🇷 Brazil· Cerrado

Tasting notes

Character

• Bold
  50
• Funky
  20

Tasting NotesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee.: Dark Chocolate, Cacao and Nougat COFFEE INFORMATION Country Brazil Farm / Farms Sul de Minas Gerais Altitude 1150 MASL VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process. BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars., Mundo Novo, CaturraCaturraA natural dwarf mutation of Bourbon found in Brazil: compact plants, easier picking, bright and clean cup. A workhorse across Latin America. Processing NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. This coffee comes from a collection of well organised estates based around the small town of Santo Antonio do Amparo in the south of the state of Minas Gerais. Working as a group has enabled these estates to share their years of experience and expertise, ensuring that the best potential quality is achieved on each individual farm. As a result, their collective harvests continue to build a reputation and profile of high speciality standards from the region their families have called home for generations. Their state-of-the-art cuppingCuppingThe standardized tasting ritual — coarse grounds steeped in hot water, crust broken, slurped from a spoon — used to score and compare coffees. lab, which is equipped with the latest technology in colour analysis, roasting, grading and cupping, employs a full time cupper, Q grader and quality control manager and is located in Santo Antonio do Amparo. They also collectively own their own dry-mill, warehouse and exporting facilities, ensuring a high level of traceability and quality. The gentle slopes in this region make mechanical harvesting possible, while sophisticated equipment ensures a high level of quality can be achieved; these estates are making sure Brazil is known for more than just producing quantity. Santo Antonio is made up of well known estates such as Samambaia, Cerrado, Pinhal, Vila Boa and Arco de Iris to name a few.