Brazil Mogiana FAF Bobolink Pirapitinga Natural Yellow Catuai

Regional details

As the world's largest coffee producer, Brazilian lots often come from larger estates that use highly mechanized processing strategies to manage larger volumes.  The Mogiana region, split between the states of São Paulo and Minas Gerais, is the most renowned of three major Brazilian growing regions.  This region has rolling hills and uneven terrain lending to farms that are small to medium in size.

Sourcing Details

The Bob-o-Link project is named after the transcontinental migratory bird. The Bob-O-Link coffees come from neighborhoods of family farms working together and sharing the same values of Total Quality.

From this volume of coffee, we have plucked a special treat traceable to farms in the community of Pirapitinga.  Producers here started focusing on the specialty coffee market and working with an export company called FAF Coffees.  The focus has been to implement innovative farm management practices to bring out the best quality.

Processing details

While the driving focus is on creating farm management innovations, for the post harvest processing the cherries are taken to FAF Coffee’s centralized mill in Serra do Cigano, where there is decades of processing knowhow.  After careful selective picking, ripe cherries are washed and floated to remove damaged and less dense coffee before the drying process begins.  Cherries are gently dried on raised beds to reduce moisture to 11 percent and then carefully stored until it is time for milling and export.

Exporting details

FAF Coffees also helps producers with many of the logistics of selling to the international market, including warehousing and preparing coffee for export.