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During the transport from the origin to the warehouse and when stored at the warehouse, your coffee is fully insured by Algrano. In case anything happens, we will take care of the issue.
For the road transport to your roastery, you can choose 2 delivery options:
Doorstep delivery (DDP): we will take care of the road transport to your doorstep. We will compare prices and organise the pick-up details. Transport insurance and transport claims are fully covered by Algrano. You have nothing to worry about!
Warehouse pick-up (FCA): you will have to organise the transport yourself, and you would need to instruct your carrier accordingly. You will need to organise the insurance, and in case of transport damage, you will need to raise the claim to your carrier.
For buyers in the EU, Switzerland and the UK the coffee will be provided customs cleared. In case of an intra-community delivery, you will need to report the purchase according to your local VAT regulations.
For buyers in Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein, we can provide transport to your roastery, but we are not able to import. In this case you would need to register the import.
For buyers in the USA, we will provide customs clearance.
Financing costs apply until the coffee is released.
The coffee story
Chácara Nossa Senhora da Aparecida is located in São Gonçalo do Sapucaí town in the South of Minas Gerais. We grow mainly Mundo Novo, Catuaí and Icatu varieties. We like them because the resulting drink is good and the plants yield well under the correct conditions. This coffee is an example of the general quality our farm has been producing this year. Quality has been great! It’s beautiful to look at a cupping sheet and see that your worst coffees are scoring 82, for example. We have some low-quality contracts to honour and - it’s kind of bonkers - we don’t really have the amounts.
My father Nivaldo Arantes overseeing this year's harvest
Our location and altitude are big contributors to the coffee’s quality. We are on the top of a mountain chain, in a plateau in the region of São Gonçalo. We discovered our potential only 7 years ago, when we participated in our first competition. We got 3rd place, but with a twist. The 1st and 2nd places were for micro-lots of 10 or 15 bags. Our lot had 250 bags! This helped us realize we could produce high quality consistently with good volume.
Since then we have developed some relationships with roasters in Brazil and in Australia selling directly. We also have created a Coffee Club to discuss all things coffee with other enthusiasts. Coffee is a great way to meet new people and make friends! It carries a lot of recognition for the producer, unlike any other crop. Have you heard of specialty pinto beans? I haven’t...
Another interesting detail about us is that my father Nivaldo is a cartographer by trade. He drew all the maps of the farm we have at the moment. We decided to add one of them here for you to have a look:
Map of the farm showing the different sectors and the varieties planted on each of them. This lot comes from sector 1
Aerial shots of the farm
The process
This lot was mechanically harvested when the trees reached a minimum of 60% of maturation. We bought the harvester this year due to the pandemic. Normally we can bring workers from the North of the state of Minas Gerais, but this year we just couldn't get people to come. This harvester is very interesting though! It works well even in more mountainous regions like ours and you can adjust the frequency of the vibration so that most of the cherries you collect are riper (and heavier). Combining that with the fact that the maturation has been very even this weather thanks to the good weather we managed to harvest very close to our usual levels of maturation. The coffee was then dried on the patio for 12 days and for 5 days on the mechanical drier with a very low and controlled temperature to allow for even drying. The coffee was then stored in the warehouse to rest, making sure the humidity levels were stable before hulling.
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