Brazil | Sitio Recanto da Mata | Catucai 785 Pulped Natural
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| Management number | 253652717 | Release Date | 2026/10/24 | List Price | CA$35.60 | Model Number | 253652717 | ||
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About Sitio Recanto da Mata
Sitio Recanto da Mata in Brejetuba, Espirito Santo, has been in the de Paula family for 70 years. Valdeir and Eliana broke with the father-to-son tradition: their business partner is their daughter Caroline, a physics graduate who chose to apply her knowledge to cupping, processing and sorting on the family property. Their investment in biological fermentation in boxes - learned on a producers' trip to Guatemala - earned them first prize at the Bourbon Specialty Coffee Quality Contest in 2018, and this lot placed 6th in the Espirito Santo state contest. The farm sits in a permanent preservation area for water sources, and protecting the microclimate and native forest is a family priority.
Espirito Santo
One of Brazil's smallest coffee regions, bordered by the Atlantic and the Serra Chibata range, Espirito Santo is unusually quality-focused: producers hand-pick on 5-20 hectare plots of steep hillside, and coastal rains slow cherry maturation, extending the harvest and concentrating microlots.
About the Catucaí 785 Variety
Catucaí is a Brazilian cross between Icatu and Catuai, developed in 1988 by researchers at the Brazilian Coffee Institute (IBC). It was bred for the real world: strong resistance to coffee leaf rust, vigorous growth, high productivity and lower water demands than many traditional varieties.
It exists in yellow and red forms - 785 is a selected yellow line prized in Espírito Santo's mountains - and while it was designed as a dependable farm variety, careful producers have proven it can compete at contest level, as this 6th-place state contest lot shows.
Pulped natural processing - depulping the cherry, then drying the seed in its remaining mucilage - layers extra sweetness and body onto the cup: dried apple, mild dark chocolate and raisin with a mellow, juicy acidity.
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