Brazil
Mantiqueira de Minas
Anacley Pereira Bustamante Abreu
Fazenda da Pedra
Yellow Catuai
Natural
June–October
Nougat, Yellow Raisin, Smooth
1200 meters
N/A
60 kg w/ GrainPro
EU - Hamburg, Germany - Schwarze
Fazenda da Pedra has been in Anacley Pereira Bustamante Abreu’s family for five generations. Matriarch Inácia Alves Pereira was the first to plant coffee here in the 1930s, and Inácia’s grandson José Clênio was a pioneer in specialty coffee production in the Mantiqueira de Minas region. Anacley and her sister Clevane took over the production, management, and marketing of the coffee from the farm in 2015 after their father, José Clênio, passed away.
Anacley has a background in veterinary medicine, and she and her sister had to learn the business practically from scratch. They faced difficulties and growing pains, but their goal was to maintain the quality that had become a principle on the farm. They learned quickly in their new roles, placing first in the UFLA Golden Cup competition in 2017 and 2018, as well as winning prizes in the regional Mantiqueira de Minas competitions.
The family continues to grow more involved in the process of coffee production, with specialty coffee now a passion and tradition in the household. Anacley’s son, Lucas, currently studies coffee production and has become a valuable partner in daily life on the farm. The greatest motivation today is to ensure that the legacy of specialty coffee survives for many more generations at Fazenda da Pedra.
This lot of Yellow Catuai 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.
