Brasile Bom Chocolate - 50 pods
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Description
Coffee with intense cocoa notes, balanced and round in body.
The single-origin Santos Cerrado Bom Brazilian chocolate is a special gourmet coffee of Arabica quality.
Grown between 900 and 1000 m above sea level, in the Cerrado region of Brazil.
This Santos Bom Chocolate is a naturally processed Arabica. This sun-drying process imparts a moderate acidity to the coffee beans, accentuating their sweetness.
- On the nose: notes of chocolate and toasted bread
- Taste: first sweet notes of cocoa and nuts are perceived, followed by hints of red fruits, which bring a soft and delicate acidity
Technical data sheet
- Aromatic notes: cocoa and nuts
- Intensity: 6/9
- Body: 6/9
- Sweetness: 4.5/9
- Bitterness: 4/9
- Acidity: 5/9
- Aromatic intensity: 6/9
- Roasting: medium
- Suitable for: Those looking for a quality Arabica coffee, but with low acidity, predominantly sweet
- Origins: Brazil
- Location: Cerrado Region, Brazil
- Altitude: 900-1000m above sea level
- Harvest type: picking
- Processing type: natural
- Score: 77/100
- Screen: 17/18
History of coffee
Today we travel to Brazil, the world's leading country in terms of coffee production and sales, and one of the most popular and widely consumed coffees!
In Brazil there are a multitude of farms, both large ones stretching as far as the eye can see, which use industrial means and produce low-quality coffee, and micro-farms producing specialty coffee.
In short, the coffee-growing area is vast and varied!
Arrival of coffee in the country
Coffee arrived in Brazil with European colonialism in 1727 in Parà, brought by the Portuguese sergeant Francisco de Melo Palheta from French Guiana.
The soldier hid the plant in a bouquet of flowers given to him as a farewell greeting by the wife of the governor of Guyana, who was in love with the Portuguese.
This way he was able to plant the first coffee tree in Brazil!
The two departments known for producing quality coffee are the Cerrado region, where our Bom Chocolate comes from, and the Minas Gerais region to the southeast of the former.
Cultivation began around the 1970s, thanks to growers who sought out regions outside of the traditional ones, where annual frosts would ruin the entire crop.
Coffee area
Minas Gerais was recognized as a growing area in 1970, when coffee became the most imported product of regional agriculture, and in 2020 it was declared an IP, or Indication of Origin, mark.
The Cerrado region, district of Minas Gerais, received the IP in 2005 and DO, therefore Designation of Origin, since 2014.
This is characterized, as already mentioned, by the quality of the raw beans and the unique climatic combinations.
Furthermore, the coffee plants here have intense and unique flowering, with uniform ripening of a concentrated crop, which together with a perfect definition of the climatic seasons with hot, humid summers and mild, dry winters.
A set of perfectly synchronized variables that create unique and ideal conditions for our beloved plant with bright red fruits.
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