Brazil Pocos de Caldas
REGION: Minas Gerais
PROCESS: Natural
VARIETIES: Catuaí & Mundo Novo
ALTITUDE: 1100 - 1300 MASL
CROP PERIOD: May - August
NOTES: Milk chocolate, marzipan, stone fruits
A fresh regional lot from Brazil.
Full of chocolate and nuts with a sweet stone fruit acidity, this is an all day, every day crowdpleaser.
Perfectly roasted for milky drinks, Pocos de Caldas also packs a punch as an espresso.
Minas Gerais is a stunning area known for therapeutic hot springs, Murano-style glassware and coffee farms.
Sourced through DRWakefield, who upply fine, speciality and certified coffees.
They have their own warehouse with laser colour sorters, microlot tagging and cupping facilities. Bags of coffee are microchipped to ensure full traceability.
Pocos De Caldas is a city in Minas Gerais, bordering Sao Paulo, surrounded by many coffee farms.
Famous for its hot springs there are numerous hills and lower altitude mountains in the area bringing their own unique character to the coffees produced.
The area in general is known for its Murano-style glassware and artisan soap production due to the trace minerals found in the area.
Farms are a mix of small and large producers. Cherry is first collected with both machine and hand picking, as slopes on the hills mean it is inaccessible for the mechanical pickers. Processed at farm level, this includes initial drying as in every other country, but also dry milling.
Beans are then stored in large wooden silos to allow the moisture to homogenise through the lot. This is controlled by size but is otherwise very effective at producing even lots.
Once this stage is completed the beans are cupped, scored, and sent to the warehouse facility for SMC. Here the coffee is stored in RFID tagged lots, which disable the forklift if the designated lot is not scheduled to be moved, guaranteeing the quality received is the quality chosen.
Coffees are cupped and selected to profile before undergoing a further cleaning and colour/laser sorting before being bagged for export.