Nivaldo and Willer Arantes - Chácara Nossa Senhora Aparecida - Lot 22 Natural Mundo Novo

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.

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: