Our featured coffee for August is a natural-processed bourbon varietal from the Fazenda Rainha estate in Brazil. This coffee is roasty with a medium-heavy body and low acidity. The cup starts soft with sweet and slightly bitter notes of pomegranate on the front of your tongue. In the middle of the cup, those notes are quickly overpowered by roasty notes of peanut brittle and dark chocolate that coat your palate. The finish is long and dry with lingering notes of peanuts and chocolate and subtle spicy notes of cola or root beer. 

Roast Color: Medium-Dark

Cupping Notes: Peanut Brittle, Pomegranate, Dark Chocolate

About the coffee of the month: We feature a new coffee every month. This allows us to explore more of the world of coffee outside of our normal offerings. It is available this month only, while supplies last. 

Story: Fazenda Rainha is a coffee estate located near the municipality of São Sebastião da Grama, within the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The farm includes 200 hectares of revered Yellow Bourbon trees, some producing for more than 50 years. Management of Fazenda Rainha has been passed down to José Renato Gonçalves Dias who draws his passion for coffee all the way back to his great grandparents who worked the same land. As a trained agronomist, Jose has matched his inherited passion with academic knowledge focused on creating biodiverse environments full of microorganisms and beneficial insects that support a healthy coffee crop.

During the harvest for this pulped natural yellow bourbon, cherries are sorted and floated to remove less dense and damaged coffee, and then depulped and placed on patios for a minimum of 30 days to dry with the mucilage still attached. Once coffee is dry, it is stored in wooden silos until the coffee is ready to be milled and exported. The results are indisputable as coffee from Fazenda Rainha has frequently been selected as one of the top coffees in the Cup of the Excellence competition in Brazil. Jose also ensures that the people at Fazenda Rainha who work year-round have onsite housing, healthcare and a technical institute where their children have access to a topnotch education.