Brazil
Mantiqueira de Minas
Isabel Aparecida de Oliveira
Sítio Água Limpa do Congonhal
Yellow Catuai
Natural
June–August
Nougat, Blood Orange, Cherry, Grape
1275 meters
Rainforest Alliance
60 kg w/ GrainPro
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Isabel Aparecida de Oliveira is a third generation coffee producer in the Mantiqueira de Minas region of Brazil. Together with her husband and three children, she began producing coffee originally on rented land. In 2009 however, they were able to buy their own farm with coffee already in production. The family now grows coffee across 2.15 hectares of land on their farm Sítio Água Limpa do Congonhal.
The farm is Rainforest Alliance certified. Production includes Yellow Catucaí, Red Catuai, and Yellow Catuai varieties, totalling 80 bags of coffee annually. This particular lot of Yellow Catuai underwent Natural processing. Catuai was developed by the Instituto Agronomico (IAC) of Sao Paulo State in Campinas, Brazil by crossing Mundo Novo and Caturra varieties. Catuai coffees are cultivated widely across Brazil, and are known for their high productivity potential.
This coffee was one of the top 10 entries in a competition held by AMECAFÉ Mantiqueira (The Association of Coffee Women Entrepreneurs in Serra da Mantiqueira) in October 2020. 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.
