Brazil Cerrado - Arabica Catuai

Exclusive contract farm product from Brazil, Cerrado Shimada Plantation  Since 2003, I have been traveling to Brazil for outstanding coffee beans. Every year, from many different coffee-producing areas, I have been focusing on and tasting the best coffee offered by the Cerrado coffee-producing areas that spread out from the Patrocínio municipality in Minas Gerais. Since 2018, we have had contractual agreements with the Shimada Farm, owned and managed by Hugo Shimada, a third-generation Japanese American coffee producer. His grandparents had emigrated from Hokkaido to Brazil before the war. To retain the inherent flavors and taste of the coffee beans, the coffee is processed using the natural process instead of the washed process. In the natural process, the coffee beans are not de-pulped and stored in the refrigerator; they are aged in cherry form. As the coffee beans are in contact with the flesh of the cherries for a longer time, the sweetness and the flavors from the ripened cherry