Brazil
Matas de Minas
Maria Gloria das Graças Miranda Portilho
Sitio São Pedro
Red Catuaí
Natural
June-August
Brown Spice, Milk Chocolate, Nougat, Clean
1024 meters
N/A
60kg with liner
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In the 1940’s, Maria Gloria’s parents established themselves in Caparaó, Minas Gerais. Her father was in the military and had widely explored Caparaó. By the 1960’s, Maria had married and become a businesswoman. She was the owner of a market and the only cinema in the city. Later, she sold everything to acquire a property in the Santa Rita do Aventureiro community of Caparaó. She turned it into pasture and coffee fields and kept the property for more than 30 years.
Maria Gloria’s son Sando became agricultural technician in 2006. He loved rural tourism and specialty coffee and together they bought Sítio São Pedro in 2011, named for the community where it is located. Four of the farm’s five hectares are planted with coffee.
The first year held many challenges: hiring harvesters, completing the post-harvest and all processing. Since then, they have been in cup contests to learn how to better improve the quality of their work.
The Matas de Minas coffee region is in the southeastern part of the Minas Gerais state, just over the border from Espirito Santo, with Alto Caparaó as its most recognized municipality.
With a distinct topography featuring rugged mountain terrains and large variations in elevation (between 400 and 1100 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 trees are planted with wider spacing to receive more sunlight, only treated water is used for washing and pulping the beans, and drying is done meticulously and carefully. Together, these factors favor the production of the highest quality coffees, full-bodied and with great nuances in both aroma and flavors.