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Brazil's most expensive coffee bean-2017 Brazilian COE champion 130USD / lb Arcaya variety Acaia

Published: 2024-11-17 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/17, The exchange of professional baristas, please pay attention to the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style). Is the impression of Brazil still in the Brazilian blend of Italian coffee in the past? In 2017, the bidding price for the first place in Brazil's COE peeling and tanning group reached US $130 / lb, while the top five in the suntan group all scored more than 90 points, and the first place got 93.6 points! Brazil is no longer Wu.

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Is the impression of Brazil still stuck in the Brazilian blend of espresso in the past? In 2017, the bidding price for the first place in Brazil's COE peeling and tanning group reached US $130 / lb, while the top five in the suntan group all scored more than 90 points, and the first place got 93.6 points! Brazil is no longer under Wu and Amon. Last year Nord's Christmas coffee was Guatemala, this year it was Brazil. This Mantiqueira de Minas San Jose is the most delicious Brazil we have tried recently. The gentle aroma of the front, the strong dark chocolate in the middle and the drupe flavor at the end, the cooler the better, witnessing the birth of a boutique Brazil!

Sitio S ã o Jos é San Jose Farm, Brazil

This Christmas coffee comes from Brazil's most famous producing area, Mantiqueira de Minas, which is located in the south of the state of Minas Geris Minas Gerais in Brazil's Mantiqueira mountains. Mantiqueira de Minas is a mountainous area with an extremely complex and unique microclimate zone that has produced high-quality coffee for more than a century, and many of the winning estates of Cup of Excellence come from here. Take the 2017 COE as an example, of the 32 winning estates, 11 came from Mantiqueira de Minas.

Compared with other Brazilian regions, Mantiqueira de Minas coffee has a more complex flavor because of its high altitude and very fertile soil. There are 7800 coffee farmers in this area, most of them small farmers. The local cooperative Cocarive assists the small farm in dealing with coffee cherries and all related logistics.

The farm is produced in San Jose (S ã o Jos é), the variety is Arcaya (Acaia), and the treatment is solarization. Norway's Nord chose Brazil as its annual Christmas coffee, and last year's best Brazilian was tanned Arcaya, baked by Russia's Double B.

Arcaya variety Acaia: bold coffee beans!

Coffee variety Arcaya (Acaia) is a relatively rare bean variety from a natural variety of Mundo Novo, which itself is bred by two ancient beans: bourbon and Tibica (hybrid). Arcaya's tree is very special, triangular, the sun can evenly shine on the fresh fruit, the yield is very large, and is very suitable for mechanical harvesting; the disadvantage is that it is very easy to get coffee diseases and insect pests. Acaia in the local aboriginal language means "big fresh fruit", big fruit and big leaves, is a very bold and unrestrained variety of coffee!

Arcaya seems to be particularly suitable for the local climate of Brazil, especially at an altitude of more than 800m. It has an excellent flavor and often wins the Brazilian Cup of Excellence Cup. Once transplanted to other countries, such as El Salvador, it is not easy to survive, and the change in quality is quite large, which is rarely seen outside Brazil so far.

Arcaya sun at Mantiqueira de Minas San Jose Farm, Brazil

Brazil Mantiqueira de Minas S í tio S ã o Jos é Acai á natural

Producing country: Brazil Brazil

Production area: Mantiqueira de Minas

Farm: San Jose Farm S í tio S ã o Jose

Altitude: 1200 m

Variety: Arcaya Acai á

Treatment: natural in the sun

Harvest time: 2017

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