Location: Mantiqueira De Minas,
Minas Gerais, Brazil
Altitude: 1050-1100 masl
Process: Natural, dried in static boxes
Varietal: Topazio, Arrara, Catucai, Bourbon
Cup Score: 84.50
Cup Profile: Ripe red berries, milk chocolate,
red apple sweetness and rounded body
Fazenda Pinhal is a 914 ha farm situated close to San Antonio De Ampoaro in Sul De Minas. The farm belongs
to the Gabarra Teixeria family who acquired the farm in 1994. Only 33% of the farm is planted with coffee. The
rest of the land has been left with natural reserve crops such as Eucalyptus. The Family own 4 connected farms
totalling 1000 ha of land and 500 ha of coffee production.
In 2019 & 2022 the farm won the award for Brazil’s most sustainable coffee farm and in 2019 they installed
solar panels which now supplies 100% of their energy usage. They are certified carbon negative, and since
2020, for every 1kg of coffee produced they sequestered 20kg of CO2.
On the farm, they have also started a bird sanctuary to help rehabilitate and care for injured birds and have
coordinated research programs with students from the local universities.
This coffee is a mixed variety natural process. The cherries are picked with selective mechanical picking, then
floated to remove light and underripe beans. It’s then placed in static boxes for 8 days. On the 4th day the
coffee is mixed to ensure uniform drying. It then spends 60 days in wooden silos before being prepared for
shipment.
