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Brazil São João Estate

Origin
Medium
Medium
Aroma persuasive Spanish peanut
Taste elegant, approachable
Body nutter butter batter
Finish cocoa phantom, ghostly
Coffee

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This micro-harvest comes from the São João Estate, a small farm in the hilly highlands of Rio de Janeiro. Founded in 1853, the estate uses organic fertilizers and traditional methods to nurture its crop. This year's delicious harvest of Yellow Bourbon beans is small — only 10 jute bags — and available only at Gimme! Coffee. When brewed at home, the coffee is wonderfully plush and creamy, with flavors of peanut oil, chocolate and simple sugar.

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Satellite Map of the Region

Explore the landscape and geography around Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Slideshow

A Hilltop Harvest at São João Estate

The Yellow Bourbon beans make up just a small part of this small harvest.

Origin Facts

Sustainability
Fair Labor Practices São João's Estate provides its 24 employees and their families with housing, electricity, water, and other amenities, like eggs and milk produced on the farm. Employees are also offered job training, literacy education, and school supplies.
Habitat Preservation 617 acres — over half the farm — is preserved as forest, and replanted with native plant species at a rate of 2000 trees per year. Farmers use a natural mulching method: whenever any cutting or pruning occurs, the cut material is left in the field to decompose into a natural mulch layer.
Water Conservation All springs on the estate are protected by fencing and surrounded by appropriate native vegetation

Seed to Cup
Farm Name São João Estate
Lot Size 10 bags
Process greenhouse driers, pulped natural

Terroir
Farm Size 1111 acres
Growing Area 172 acres, 245,000 coffee trees
Altitude 2,624 feet
Soil Type Latosoil red-yellow, some Bruno Latoso
Varietal Yellow Bourbon

Location
State Rio de Janeiro
Region Serra do Monte das Flores highlands
Country Brazil
National Production 46.7 million bags per year
Production Rank With 2.4 million hectares of coffee farms, Brazil is #1 in world coffee production

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