Brazil Fazenda Yellow Bourbon

MEDIUM ROAST 10oz. whole bean coffee Natural Process Fazenda was first purchased in 1967, by Isidro Pereira, father of Luiz Paolo Dias Pereira. Luiz was pursuing an education in agriculture at the time the farm came into the family, but after five years, he joined his father to expand production and improve quality. By 1974, Luiz began expanding Fazenda: It now covers an area of 720 hectares—500 percent growth over the farm's original size. This estate cultivates Yellow Catuai, Yellow Catucai, Acaia, and Yellow Bourbon. The coffee is processed using both the natural and honey method. Nestled outside the city of Carmo de Minas, the farm sits at a range of 950–1200 meters. The higher altitude favors a slow ripening of cherry and permits selective picking, which are decisive factors to produce coffees of exceptional quality. Yellow Bourbon is a coffee variety introduced after the first major leap of paying a premium so far above the going rate for a Brazilian coffee in the 90s that it was