Fermier/Farmer: Marcelo Nogueira 

Ferme/Farm: Bioma, Ohlos D'agua

Origin / Origine: Campos Altos, Brazil

Region: Cerrado Mineiro

Altitude: 1206m

Procédé / Process: Natural

Variété: Catucai

Notes: financiers, cerises, chocolat noir / financier, cherry, dark chocolate

This marks the second year we buy the most exceptional coffee offered by Marcelo. Last year was more of a funky, mildly lactic tasting coffee. It was a coffee that had a lasting impact on us, which is why for years to come, we will be working with Bioma, Marcelo, & other passionate growers on these farms. This year, this natural is so clean, you'd think it was a washed coffee. Super sweet & sugary! 

We love this coffee as...

DRIP

AEROPRESS

FRENCHPRESS

 

About the Farm

Bioma Café’s story begins back in 2001 when Marcelo Nogueira Assis and Flavio Marcio Silva met each other and committed their life purposes in farming. Both, Marcelo and Flavio, were born in families that carry the agriculture DNA. Flavio who has vast experience in managing the family businesses met Marcelo who was a recent graduate in the technical school of agriculture and cattle and was eager to explore the farming universe. As a result, they formed a partnership based on love for agriculture, respect, and reciprocity.                       
 

Coffee is a passion for most people that live in Cerrado, in the state of Minas Gerais and it wasn't different for the young entrepreneurs who were born and raised among coffee plantations. In 2010, an opportunity arose and they constituted the first farm, focused on specialty coffee production in Campos Altos region, Minas Gerais. They carefully evaluated each piece of land that would receive the coffee crops, after all the purpose was of producing extraordinary coffees. After a long period looking for the perfect terroir, the farm location was selected, a place that produces the most incredible coffees in the high plateaus of Cerrado Mineiro. The Cerrado is one of the richest biomes in the world in terms of biodiversity, and Bioma Café emerged with the purpose of producing specialty coffees maintaining the balance between agriculture and the Cerrado biome. 

 

 

 

 

Valle de Cauca, Trujillo...

Granja La Esperanza was run by, at the time, the very young Rigoberto & Luis Herrera brothers who had been working on the Postosi farm since they were just children. They were 2 out of 14 kids from the large Herrera family who showed an affinity & an outstanding intuitive skill for growing & processing coffee. 

In the year 2007 Don Rigoberto had the chance to lease and manage a coffee farm in the region of Boquete in Panama, called “La Carleida”, and a year later obtained first place in the “Best coffee of Panama”, organized by the Specialty Coffee Association of Panama. At this point he decided to bring some of the Geisha seeds to Colombia, starting a new era in the history of Granja La Esperanza.

This coffee marks the first direct trade we have had with the Herrera bros.

We worked with our partners at RGC to get it all the way to Montreal & are really excited about how well processed and sorted this really funky natural is.

It's tangy, it's lactic, it's sweet. It's unreal.