Brazil
Mantiqueira de Minas
Sylvia Morais de Sousa Tinoco
Fazenda Taquaral
Arara
Fermented Natural
June–August
Caramel, Strawberry, Tangerine, Lavender
1000 meters
N/A
60 kg w/ GrainPro
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Sylvia Morais de Sousa Tinoco is a fifth generation coffee producer and biologist living and working in the Mantiqueira de Minas region of Brazil. Here, Sylvia manages Fazenda Taquaral with her husband Carlos Fasane Tinoco, learning from and working in collaboration with her parents, Simone Carneiro de Morais Sousa and Artur Queiroz de Sousa, since 2016 in the family company Santa Quitéria Cafés Especiais. Their family history in coffee stretches back to 1889 when the first coffee producer of the Carneiro family founded Fazenda Santa Quitéria in the municipality of Cambuquira.
Sylvia and all of Santa Quitéria Cafés Especiais have earned success for the quality of their coffees and their dedication to their work, earning numerous awards at various quality competitions both regionally and nationally since 2012.
This lot of Arara coffee underwent Fermented Natural processing. Selectively harvested cherries were wrapped in black plastic canvas where they were fermented for 96 hours in an anaerobic environment. The fermented cherries were then dried on a concrete patio to their target humidity and then rested for 30 days before being milled and prepped for export.
This coffee was one of the top 6 entries in the Fermented category of a competition held by AMECAFÉ Mantiqueira (The Association of Coffee Women Entrepreneurs in Serra da Mantiqueira) in October 2022. 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.
