Agropecuaria Muñiz - Brazil - Espresso - Anaerobic Natural Coffee

TASTE NOTES
Pineapple Juice, Grapefruit, Sherbert

VARIETAL
Catucai

PROCESS
Anaerobic Natural

ALTITUDE
1100 masl

Brazil is one of our favourite origins for experimentally processed coffees. Something about those wild tropical flavours being wrapped up in a comforting chocolatey is just so delicious. This coffee comes from Agropecuaria Muñiz, a 109 hectare farm in Cabo Verde. They first began experimenting with different fermentation methods in 2019, at first very simple ones to get an understanding of the fundamentals and then in 2020 they took a course on more complicated methods. Primarily they ferment their coffees in open boxes atop raised beds.

Adriano Muñiz is the owner of the farm and the one who has led the charge in pushing towards more innovative ways of processing coffee. Farms of this size have the scale to play around a little and develop things without risking too large a volume of their crop as they produce over four thousand sacks of coffee a year. Since their earliest experiments in 2019 the quality of their experimental lots has been better and better each year and with coffees like this being produced only 4 years in we can only imagine how exceptional the coffee might be in the future.

In addition to a major focus on quality the farm is very sustainable with over 37% of its land being given over to nature preservation, with 7000 metres of ecological corridors and 21 freshwater springs.