Cupping Notes: 88.25 Notes of Sugar, Molasses, Spices, Floral & Citric fruit. This coffee displays a delicate, velvety body with a beautiful, persistent aftertaste.
Producer: Silmara dos Santos Emerick Lopes
Varietal: Red Catuai
Altitude: 750-900 MASL
Harvest: Selective Manual - The harvest of this coffee was done selectively manually. Manual selective harvesting, or hand picking, is a type of manual harvesting in which the worker collects only the ripe fruits. Afterwards, the cherries are placed in bags for transport to the other stages.
Preparation: Natural - The cherries were prepared in the natural method. In the natural method, coffee cherries go from the harvest to the other stages without receiving any treatment or maturation separation.
Fermentation: without induced fermentation. The processing of this coffee was done without induced fermentation. All coffee goes through fermentation before starting the drying process, but in this case, there is no induction. The focus is to stop as quickly as possible any fermentation that can occur.
Drying: Thick Layer African Bed - When drying in a thick layer, the cherries are left with a thickness of approximately 8cm in african beds, in the open air, where they are dehydrated by the heat of the sun and are turned over from time to time.