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🇧🇷 Brazil Daterra Masterpieces
Variety: Aramosa & Laurina
Processing: Natural
Altitude: +1150 m.a.s.l.
Tasting notes: peach, black tea and plum
Harvest: Winter 2021/2022
Score: +88

The Story of the Coffee from Sumo

About the process:

This lot is a Cerrado Natural (Dried-on-trees). An elegant, refined, entirely natural coffee begins its journey at the peak of the harvest when the cherries are filled with honey-like liquor. The beans are left on the tree for a longer time (they start drying on it), allowing them to go through the full maturation process and dry while still attached to the branch. Then they are transferred in cherry to the patio until the honey is almost dissolved. The drying is finished in the dryer to ensure consistent moisture content and stabilisation of the beans.

About the farm:

Daterra farms are located in a lovely steady climate, dry-fresh winter, and warm-wet summers... a perfect condition for growing fantastic coffee. Their farms are one of the oldest coffee plantations in the Brazilian Cerrado region, and it is among the best coffee-producing areas in the country. Daterra often works with many coffee competitors to be at the forefront of innovation in coffee processing to create interesting and exceptional coffees every year.

Brazil's sustainable agriculture was still relatively unknown when Daterra started its coffee journey. How can one take something from the earth without harming it? Simple: borrow it, and then we give it back.

It is not only about producing the best coffee in the world. It is about producing coffee for a better world.

MASTERPIECES by Daterra

The Masterpieces by Daterra are experimental coffees. They research, test, and play around with several variables to create unique coffees.

Their experimental unit is always buzzing with new techniques and tests to unlock unexpected flavours for you.

Daterra Recognitions:

- 1st Rainforest Alliance Farm in Brazil;

- 1st Climate-friendly farm verified to meet the Sustainable Agriculture Network’s Climate Module;

- Winner of the prize “Prêmio Fazenda Sustentável 2015” by Globo Rural, Brazil’s major agricultural magazine, as the most sustainable farm in the country

Variety Laurina, Aramosa

Laurina is a naturally low-caffeine coffee from Brazil. The varietal is also known as bourbon pointu (literally pointy bourbon) after the unique pointy shape of the tree and its beans and its Reunion Island origins (formerly known as Bourbon). It is an arabica bourbon mutation that contains only 0.3%–0,5% caffeine, whereas regular Arabica beans typically have around 1.4% or more.

Aramosa is a unique varietal: a crossbreed between two coffea species, Coffea Arabica and Coffea Racemosa (an heirloom Coffeea species). The Aramosa beans usually have a lower caffeine index than regular Arabica beans and present very floral aromatics.

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