Brazil Fazenda Santuàrio Sul | Yirgacheffe | Natural

Tasting Notes: Clean, sweet notes of tangerine, blueberry and bergamot, hazelnut, chocolate, chrysanthemum

Region / Carmo de Minas

Producer / Luiz Paulo Dias Pereira

Varietal / Yirgacheffe
Process / Natural
Altitude / 1300masl

Santuario Sul is the project for producer Luiz Paulo to create coffees ahead of market trends. His goal over the upcoming years is to “always be at the forefront of the market and offer more and more quality!” He is doing this by planting and cultivating varieties from different regions across the world in an attempt to discover a new Brazilian coffee profile. Luiz Paulo now has over 30 varieties of coffee trees planted and carefully monitored to learn which can offer the best results based on the climatic conditions and soil qualities that he has on the land.

This coffee comes from Fazenda Santuário Sul meaning 'The Sanctuary' and is produced by Luiz Paulo Dias Pereira, who is a fourth-generation coffee farmer. Fazenda Santuário Sul is a 120-hectare farm, 80 hectares of which are planted in coffee. Luiz is very curious about innovation through varieties and processing experiments, and he uses Santuário Sul as a kind of "test" farm for some of his ideas. Among the 30 varieties and cultivars grown there, is this heirloom Ethiopian variety called Yirgacheffe, after the region and profile it reflects. The heirloom varieties and very high altitude contribute to the exceptional quality of the farm's coffee.