About the coffee
- Cupping notes: Robust body, low acidity, with notes of dark chocolate and almond. Sweet, nutty and classic.
- Cultivation: grown in the highlands between São Paula and Minas Gerais
- Altitude: 2,600-4,300 feet
- Tree type: Bourbon, Mondo Novo Hybrid
- Preparation: Natural – beans are patio-dried with mucilage intact while they are still in the cherry
About the people who grow it
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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.
This lot of Brazil Mogiana coffee comes from the Cooxupé cooperative. The coop’s first coffee export took place in 1959. Already a long-standing agricultural credit cooperative, Cooxupé turned its operation to coffee, one of the main agriculture activities in the South of Minas Gerais. It has grown tremendously since that time. Currently, 49 countries receive coffee produced by more than 13,000 cooperative members of Cooxupé, located in the South and the Cerrado area of Minas Gerais and in the Vale do Rio Pardo in the state of São Paulo. 83% of these producers are family farmers and small producers. The strong support of the coop has produced an increasingly sustainable and high-quality coffee.
Cooxupé offers its members free guidance and assistance services for farming. The technical department alone has more than 200 employees and most of them work directly in the field as agronomists, agricultural technicians and veterinarians who visit the properties and assist farmers with proper use of inputs, land preparation, and all other aspects of the process of coffee production, from planting to harvest to post-harvest.
This lot of Brazil Mogiana coffee comes from the Cooxupé cooperative. The coop’s first coffee export took place in 1959. Already a long-standing agricultural credit cooperative, Cooxupé turned its operation to coffee, one of the main agriculture activities in the South of Minas Gerais. It has grown tremendously since that time. Currently, 49 countries receive coffee produced by more than 13,000 cooperative members of Cooxupé, located in the South and the Cerrado area of Minas Gerais and in the Vale do Rio Pardo in the state of São Paulo. 83% of these producers are family farmers and small producers. The strong support of the coop has produced an increasingly sustainable and high-quality coffee.
Cooxupé offers its members free guidance and assistance services for farming. The technical department alone has more than 200 employees and most of them work directly in the field as agronomists, agricultural technicians and veterinarians who visit the properties and assist farmers with proper use of inputs, land preparation, and all other aspects of the process of coffee production, from planting to harvest to post-harvest.