Brazil: Ipanema, B73 "Star Fruit"

Origin

• 🇧🇷 Brazil· Minas Gerais

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
  45
• Comforting
  20

Brazil: Ipanema, B73 "Star Fruit" Starting with the delicate sweetness of star fruit and white peach , this elegant cup leaves a gentle lychee on the aftertaste. The Ipanema Premier Cru program is one we've supported since its first harvest, but now you can really see it is hitting its stride. We feel that the flavour notes in particular are notably accurate this year to how the coffee is tasting once it has arrived with us at our Stafford roastery. The cuppingCuppingThe standardized tasting ritual — coarse grounds steeped in hot water, crust broken, slurped from a spoon — used to score and compare coffees. team at Fazenda Rio Verde have selected “star fruit” as the defining characteristic of this 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. processed Yellow BourbonBourbonOne of the two foundational arabica varieties (with Typica), named after Île Bourbon (Réunion). Sweet, balanced, caramel-leaning; parent of countless modern cultivars.. Sprung From The Mountains Fazenda Rio Verde was founded in 1887 and is one of Ipanema Coffee's oldest farms. It’s situated in the Mantiqueira Mountains, translated from the Tupi Guarani native language as "mountains that cry", for the abundant springs and waterfalls that cover the area. The mountain range crosses the south-east of Brazil, straddling the states of São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro, extending north-east for approximately 500 kilometres. The farm itself is located in the municipality of Conceição do Rio Verde at elevations of up to 1,300 metres above sea level, spread over a total area of 1,566 hectares, of which 626 are dedicated to production of delicious coffee and 167 hectares to other crops. 773 hectares of the estate are reserved as environmentally protected virgin forests containing waterfalls, hiking trails, and 51 springs. To ensure preservation of this important local ecosystem, Ipanema have created the Environment Monitoring Centre (EMC) in a renovated henhouse - conceived as a centre of management, analysis, and monitoring of the local water, soil, vegetation, climate, and residue. Nature & Nurture High elevations combined with mountainous topography climbing all the way between 900 and 1,330 m.a.s.l create a unique microclimate with mild temperatures and an average rainfall of 1,600 mm a year. This, plus the clay soil rich in minerals and nutrients,