Brazil
Matas de Minas
Reinaldo Garcia dos Santos
Sitio Fortaleza
Red and Yellow Catuai
Natural
June-July
Creamy, Dark Chocolate, Roasted Hazelnut
1050 meters
N/A
59kg with liner
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Reinaldo Garcia dos Santos comes from generations of farmers. His grandparents worked on their farm in Luisburgo, Matas de Minas carrying out other activities, like pressing sugarcane and growing wheat. His father continued the farm, where growing coffee first aroused his interest and he planted his first coffee seeds. Reinaldo and his siblings helped their father with all the work on the farm.
Several years later, Reinaldo moved to the city to study administration, worked as a businessman, and married. Still, his passion for the countryside remained. A few years after his father invited him to take over the property, Reinaldo returned to the farm with his family.
Reinaldo’s interest in specialty coffees comes from his time working for a specialty coffee company, where he learned to cup. Back on his family’s land, he looked for further information and made investments in the property and in hiring trained workers.
As family farmers, Reinaldo and his family dedicate their days to the pursuit of good results, with the objective of taking the quality of their coffees to the consumer’s table.
With a distinct topography featuring rugged mountain terrains and large variations in elevation (between 400 and 1,100 meters above sea level) Matas de Minas makes a perfect region for growing specialty coffees. Because of its specific features, special care is taken in growing all the crops of the region. Coffee is harvested manually to select for only the most mature beans, the plants are planted with a wider spacing and so receive a higher instances of sunlight, only treated water is used for washing and pulping the beans, and drying is done meticulously and carefully. Together, all these factors favor the production of the highest quality coffees, full-bodied and with great nuances in both aroma and flavors.