ABOUT DANILO DONES

Danilo is another new producer we discovered with the help of our exporting partners FAF while visiting Espírito Santo last fall. He is one of the six producers whose coffee we purchased from this year. We have worked extremely hard to develop and explore a more robust buying program in this region, and this year has been our most successful year in Brazil thus far. Danilo and these other producers are exemplary of why we have been drawn to Espírito Santo: It is full of smallholding producers who harvest and process their own coffees from small farms with micro climates suitable for producing complex, washed coffees. We have rarely seen this outside of Espírito Santo in Brazil.

ABOUT CATUCAÍ VERMEHLO 785

Catucaí Vermelho 785 is a progeny of Icatú Vermelho and Catuaí Vermelho, and within the Bourbon lineage. It is a small uniform plant with wavy-edged leaves, and bronze-hued new growth. It is high-yielding, produces large red fruit with a large sieve rating, and is both highly leaf-rust tolerant and remarkably stable in varied weather conditions. While generally an early-harvest plant, in certain climates fruit development begins early but slows significantly—a trait that has been utilized to extend fruit maturation and improve cup quality by some of the more astute producers in compatible regions.