Brazil Minas Pananova (Pronova Coop) Cooperative Fair Trade Association Details

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Brazilian Minas-Pananova (Pronova Coop) Cooperative Fair Trade Association (FT)

Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world, accounting for about 33% of coffee production, but because Brazil is located in tropical rain forest areas with relatively flat terrain and few high-altitude mountain forests, most coffee is grown in low-altitude non-volcanic soil areas. And there is not much shade for shading, resulting in the disadvantage that Brazilian beans grow too fast, but the shape of beans is very large, but the density and soft flavor of coffee does not change much. Coupled with the large-scale machine harvesting of coffee beans with a wide range of maturity differences in coffee harvesting at the same time, the quality of Brazilian beans is not particularly suddenly used in the category of commercial or Dazong beans.

After 2000, due to the international auction held by the COE International Coffee Cup Test, coffee farmers have this incentive to strive to produce high-quality coffee. The quality of coffee beans produced in the high altitude areas of the south has been well appreciated, mainly by the farms around the Minas high platform, and the coffee quality is also the largest output of Brazilian beans. For example, in Minas, in the west and Matas in the east, Bashiya in the north or small farms in the south, Minas (Minas) is almost synonymous with Brazilian boutique coffee. In recent years, coffee is so accurate that it is separated by treatment (water treatment, half-washing, half-sun, sun-drying). These methods have developed a variety of flavor, taste and finish in improving the characteristics of Brazilian coffee, which is quite different from traditional Brazilian coffee. In particular, half-sun and sun exposure perform best, which will increase the aroma of cleaner, low-acid fruit and reduce the rich chocolate flavor of the coffee.

The Pronova Coop cooperative, located 900-1100 meters above sea level in the Espiritu Santo area southeast of Minas Gerais, was established in 1988 and 2005 to join the Fair Trade Association. It continues to improve the quality of coffee through cooperation with the association. Coffee trees have traditional bourbon species and emerging Kaduai and Mondonova (Mundo Novo). In the past two years, we have achieved good results in participating in the coffee competition held by the Fair Trade Association by semi-washing.

The end of shallow baking (City): after shallow baking, the aroma of peanuts and raisins is released after grinding, and the wet aroma after cooking has the aroma of longan tea, the complexity of very clean and balanced taste is not high, red plum is sour, and the finish is sweet of blueberry grapes.

Re-baking second explosion (Full City): coffee is ground to dark chocolate aroma, brewing after the wet smell of sugar cane brown sugar, with moist rich cream taste, honey caramel sweet, finish is hazelnut sweet.

Cup test date: 2010.10.18

Dry aroma: 8

Wet aroma: 10

Clean: 9

Brightness: 7

Taste: 8

Balance: 10

Complexity: 7

Sweetness: 9

Acid quality: 9

Yu Yun: 9

Overall comment: the aroma of longan tea and blueberries during shallow roasting in Pananova Cooperative is the most obvious compared with heavy-baked milk chocolate. Compared with sunburned Brazilian beans, it is a very clean, excellent, balanced and creamy coffee with a glorious traditional Brazilian flavor.