FAZENDA DA MATA

The deeply flavoured profile leads with the sweetness of chocolate and macadamia: a bold espresso and the perfect base for your favourite milk drink. Vibrancy and balance comes through in notes of ripe stone fruit and dried apricot. Full and creamy on the palate, the body is smooth and the finish is long, with the richness of praline rounding off a beautiful cup.

Set over 50 hectares, Fazenda Da Mata covers an entire mountain side. Driving up and down the steep inclines in his 1980 jeep, Adonis enthusiastically goes about the work of tending to his land and checking the development of each lot. At 75, every cup of Fazenda Da Mata draws on his wealth of experience.

Fazenda Da Mata is a vertical farm that climbs from 900 metres to just under 1400 metres at its peak. On the Mantiqueira Mountain range in Brazil, the farm benefits from Volcanic soil that is rich with nutrients. In Portuguese ‘Da Mata’ means ‘of the forest’ and reflects the large area of forest Adonis preserves across his farm.

Visiting the farm with Adonis and driving up and down in his jeep, you can feel the change in temperature as the altitude increases. Over his many years of farming, Adonis has invested in terracing his fields making farm-work in part mechanizable and more efficient.

With dense forest and steep slopes, the farm benefits from a distinct microclimate. The unusually cool evenings allow for prolonged maturation of the coffee cherries, increasing the density of organic material and helping to produce a sweeter cup that is perfectly suited to natural processing.

Our lot was carefully handpicked, sorted, then naturally processed. The ripe cherries are dried with the skin and fruit intact, imparting flavour and texture to the profile of the coffee. When the desired moisture content has been reached, the outer fruit is removed mechanically.