About the coffee
- Cupping notes: Chocolate, apple. almond, molasses, dried fruits. Sweet, nutty and classic.
- Cultivation: grown in the highlands between São Paula and Minas Gerais
- Altitude: 2,600-4,300 feet
- Tree type: Acaiá, Catuaí, Caturra, Icatu, and Mundo Novo
- Preparation: Natural – beans are patio-dried with mucilage intact while they are still in the cherry
About the people who grow it
Ademir Donizete Moscardini, the farmer pictured here, owns the small Portal da Serra farm in Ibiraci, Mogiana. His is a family tradition that all started with his grandfather. Ademir and his family owned another farm in Mogiana for many years but moved to Ibiraci because of the farm’s excellent terroir for specialty coffee production. He is a member of the Olam Brazil group.
Mogiana Eagle is an Olam Brazil brand, comprised of top lots produced in the Alta Mogiana region. Olam personally selects lots from individual small farms and processes them to create a smooth, clean, highly consistent coffee that is not only perfect for anchoring an espresso blend, but can also be used as a single origin Brazil. Their goal is a consistent, clean cup profile, and consistent support for small farming families.
The Mogiana region, which runs along the São Paulo and Minas Gerais border, is home to some of the most predictably sweet and well-structured naturals produced in Brazil. The area is rich in coffee history. In 1872, twenty-one coffee farmers were the first to invest in a new railroad in northeastern Sao Paulo, Brazil, near the border with Minas Gerias. The new railway was christened “Mogiana Railroad Company,” and it was so important that the region would take the name as its own. After a century of operation, the tracks had been largely dismantled and the name changed, but the coffee region kept its adopted moniker. Building a railroad to get coffee to market is indicative of the innovation producers in the Mogiana region have always brought to coffee farming.
All Olam Brazil coffee producers from Mogiana are given a membership in Olam. The benefits are:
Mogiana Eagle is an Olam Brazil brand, comprised of top lots produced in the Alta Mogiana region. Olam personally selects lots from individual small farms and processes them to create a smooth, clean, highly consistent coffee that is not only perfect for anchoring an espresso blend, but can also be used as a single origin Brazil. Their goal is a consistent, clean cup profile, and consistent support for small farming families.
The Mogiana region, which runs along the São Paulo and Minas Gerais border, is home to some of the most predictably sweet and well-structured naturals produced in Brazil. The area is rich in coffee history. In 1872, twenty-one coffee farmers were the first to invest in a new railroad in northeastern Sao Paulo, Brazil, near the border with Minas Gerias. The new railway was christened “Mogiana Railroad Company,” and it was so important that the region would take the name as its own. After a century of operation, the tracks had been largely dismantled and the name changed, but the coffee region kept its adopted moniker. Building a railroad to get coffee to market is indicative of the innovation producers in the Mogiana region have always brought to coffee farming.
All Olam Brazil coffee producers from Mogiana are given a membership in Olam. The benefits are:
- entry in a central database, so their product receives priority as a potential specialty coffee
- promotion of producer and farm to the clients
- potential for Direct Trade relationships
- training to ensure maintained quality and good agricultural practices
- a differentiated price at a premium to the standard commercial price
- an extra annual premium based on the points collected as members of the group
