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Barbosa

Barbosa

A sweet and ripe natural from Cup of Excellence winner Danilo Barbosa in Cerrado, with chocolate and cherry character

$18.00 USD
$18.00 USD
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About

Coffee Expression This lot carries the typical character of the Cerrado region, with notes of dark chocolate and ripe cherry.

Producer Danilo Queiroz Barbosa is a 4th generation coffee producer, located in the Cerrado Mineiro region of Brazil.

Whole Bean Coffee / Both for filter and espresso

Brewing Advice

Water is one of the most critical components of an excellent coffee experience. We recommend using mineral water of a soft Total Dissolved Solids count, ideally below 150 ppm. 

Rested coffee During the resting process, harsh and astringent flavors, which can even be perceived as a ‘roast’ character, soften out, allowing a clearer and brighter expression of the coffee’s character to shine.  

We recommend resting our coffees for at least 10 days after the roast date, and we often find excellent results, especially for particularly dense coffees, beyond 6 weeks.

Brewing Our straightforward approach to coffee carries over into brewing. We recommend our roasted coffee for all brew methods, regardless of whether it is immersion, percolation or espresso. We believe that there is one correct way to roast a single coffee, roasting lightly, in such a way as to release its innate qualities and showcase its quality. Learn more about different brewing techniques and specific brew guides here.

Technical Data

Producer  Danilo Barbosa

Region Cerrado Mineiro

Altitude 1000 masl

Varietal Catuai

Process Natural

Harvest August 2023

Taste Expression Sweet & Balanced

Shipping & Delivery

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· Ships within 1-3 days from Brooklyn, New York

· Coffee is roasted to order

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Danilo Barbosa

Danilo Barbosa is a 4th generation coffee producer, located in the Cerrado Mineiro region of Brazil. The family’s tradition in coffee was started by Danilo’s great-grandfather, Elias Barbosa, and has been passed down through the generations since. Danilo was taught by his father, and has now been working with his son, Vitor, for almost 30 years, passing on the family’s generational knowledge and experience of their land.

We roasted a lot from Vitor for our Danish roastery earlier in the season. The family emphasises quality production in their work, and have placed highly in several green coffee competitions. Their highlight so far was in 2021, when they placed 1st in the Brazilian Cup of Excellence and 3rd in the Cerrado Mineiro regional competition. They carefully manage each step of the production process, balancing modern agricultural techniques, environmental factors, and their pursuit of the highest quality.

This lot is a natural Catuai, dried carefully on patios at the farm. Typical of the Cerrado region, this creates notes of dark chocolate and ripe cherry.

Cerrado Mineiro

The region of Cerrado Mineiro is part of the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. In 2013 the region became the first in Brazil to be granted a protected designation of origin certificate, similar to Champagne or Scotch whisky. To qualify for the title ‘Cerrado’, the coffees must be speciality grade and grown above 800 masl in the Cerrado Mineiro region. The 4500 producers of the Cerrado region produces 6 million bags of coffee a year, from 210,000 hectares of coffee growing lands. Most of the lands here are of quite low altitude compared to most of the coffee we buy here at La Cabra, and are more flat, rather than on more mountainous terrain. The region has characteristic and distinct seasons, with a wet warm summer, and a dry winter, leading to more consistency in growing conditions between years. The dry climate during harvest means less issues with drying coffees, part of the reason so many high quality naturals are produced here.