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1. Santa Cecilia - Brazil Espresso

Hazelnut, Apricot, Caramel

We start the silly season with a typical Brazilian coffee from an old, prestigious farm in Carmo do Paranaíba, near Belo Horizonte. It's a rich, syrupy coffee that tastes like everyone's favourite Christmas treat, the chocolate orange. 

Cultivation

Grown with love by great farmers. 100% arabica coffee, picked when it's ripe, processed with care, and fairly traded.

Packaging

The tins in our advent calendar hold 50g of coffee and are free from mixed materials, making them 100% recyclable.

Brewing
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Scoring Card
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About the Coffee

Hazelnut, Apricot, Caramel

Score: 87
Sweetness: 4/5 Tropical
Acidity: 3/5 Chocolate Orange
Mouthfeel: 5/5 Sticky
Body: 4/5 Creamy and Nutty

Variety: Catuaí
Processing: Natural
Harvesting Year: 2022
Drying Time: About 2 weeks


Suggested brew recipe:
1:2.5 (eg 19g coffee to 47.5g espresso yield) in 30-35 seconds

About this coffee

This Catuaí variety coffee displays everything we love about Brazilian coffee. It has a rich, syrupy texture, chocolatey sweetness and a mild, pleasant acidity that adds depth to the flavour profile. The careful natural processing just adds to the richness and complexity of the final cup.

Map Santa Cecilia

The farm | Santa Cecilia

Pedro Veloso is a third generation coffee producer, and his family has been growing coffee on the Santa Cecilia and surrounds for over 160 years. Carmo do Paranaíba, near Belo Horizonte in Brazil's south east, is a key agricultural and coffee producing region in Brazil, and Pedro and his family are famous in the region for their modern facilities that produce consistently large harvests of high quality coffees. They have a high tech irrigation system that waters their crops with water from dams and reservoirs, as well as a lab and workshop where they work on furthering the production, processing, and quality of their coffees.

Relationship: Direct trade
Producer: Pedro Veloso
Type of farm: Family-run farm

Region, Country: Carmo do Paranaíba, Brazil
Altitude: 1100 masl
Soil type: Fertile soils
Fertilisation method: Organic
Shade type: Not shade grown
Processing location: On the farm
Number of varieties: Various
Harvest season: May-Sept


Cup of Excellence

About the farm

Pedro Veloso is a third generation coffee producer, and his family has been growing coffee on the Santa Cecilia and surrounds for over 160 years. Carmo do Paranaíba, near Belo Horizonte in Brazil's south east, is a key agricultural and coffee producing region in Brazil, and Pedro and his family are famous in the region for their modern facilities that produce consistently large harvests of high quality coffees. They have a high tech irrigation system that waters their crops with water from dams and reservoirs, as well as a lab and workshop where they work on furthering the production, processing, and quality of their coffees.

Espresso läuft durch Siebträger in 19grams Tasse

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