Brazil
Mantiqueira de Minas
Ines Vinci
Sítio Santa Quitéria
Yellow Catucai
Natural
June–July
Cacao, Dried Apple, Plum
1025 meters
N/A
60 kg w/ GrainPro
EU - Hamburg, Germany - Schwarze
Ines Vinci began her journey in coffee working with her grandparents on the large coffee estates of Paraná. It was here that she found her love for coffee, carrying that with her and eventually driving her purchase Sítio Santa Quitéria in the Mantiqueira de Minas coffee region of Minas Gerais. The farm covers 69 hectares of land, and includes 48 hectares of Catucai, Red and Yellow Catuai, and Arara plants.
Ines has invested her energy into perfecting the property for coffee cultivation and searching for new management techniques, learning each day from the challenges she’s faced and her successes in overcoming them. Today, with her husband and three children, she does all of the work at the farm, and is rewarded not only with high quality crops but with being able to see her children fall in love with coffee and aspire to follow in her footsteps.
This lot of Yellow Catucai coffee underwent Natural processing.
This coffee was one of the top 6 entries in the Natural and Pulped Natural category of a competition held by AMECAFÉ Mantiqueira (The Association of Coffee Women Entrepreneurs in Serra da Mantiqueira) in October 2023. The association was founded in 2017 and now includes 130 producers, providing professional development and other events for women producers in the region.
Located on the northern side of the Serra da Mantiqueira mountain range in the southern part of the state of Minas Gerais, the Mantiqueira de Minas region is a demarcated area of 25 municipalities. It is officially recognized as an Indication of Origin for its tradition and worldwide reputation of producing coffees with unique sensory profiles.
Most producers in the region are smallholders who operate family farms. The region is differentiated by the unique terrain and the resulting characteristics that the terroir leads to in the cup. Coffees from Mantiqueira de Minas reflect both the place itself and the committed work of its producers. Mantiqueira includes more than 8,200 producers, 82% of whom are smallholders, and 56,000 hectares of mountain land planted with coffee. Most harvesting is still completed manually, and this and other practices keep the regional cultural heritage of coffee farming alive while at the same time pursuing new flavors.
