
Terra is a comforting cup, a grounding and familiar experience. Suited for espresso, espresso and milk, or batch brew.
This is the closest replacement for our current Brazilian coffees, with chocolate notes, great sweetness and soft ripe fruit character. These coffees have been brought together for a reason, an intentional combination of lots from natural Brazil to natural Ethiopia or El Salvador, or even a single larger lot.
Semente
This fermented Topázio has comforting flavors of milk chocolate, raisins and roasted nuts, with a clean and structured profile, produced by Virginia Aguiar in Cerrado.
The Coutinho Aguiar family has grown coffee in southern Minas Gerais since the 1920s. Under Virginia's father Edmundo, the farming was modernized in the 1970s, and Semente became one of the pioneering farms in Patrocínio. Today Virginia and her children run the farm, the fourth and fifth generations of a family whose history has grown alongside Brazilian coffee for over a century.
Brazil has faced increasing instability in recent years, driven by climate extremes and vulnerabilities in intensive agricultural systems, making it harder to secure consistent quality at acceptable prices.
As a result, we reassessed our approach to espresso sourcing, as fewer Brazilian lots met our standards for balanced, characterful milk drinks.
With Profiles, our goal is to deliver this experience year-round, widening our sourcing across the coffee belt - often blending carefully selected lots - to maintain both quality and a consistent profile.
Jose Guevara
Jose Guevara is one example of an individual producer within Aromas del Valle, who has been supported to create very high quality through their micro-lots program. Jose works in the municipality of Callayuc, a short drive from the town of Querocoto. Here, he works on a 4 hectare farm he has dubbed La Lúcuma, located at 2000 meters above sea level.
He grows Typica, Yellow Caturra and Bourbon; combined with the high altitude and cool climate, this leads to coffees that are dense, sweet, and aromatic. Like many Aromas del Valle producers, Jose is committed to sustainable practices, farming in a complex agroforestry system with native fruit and shade trees.
Subscribe to Terra
Our Profiles Subscription is a place to come home to. Choose between the two taste profiles Terra and Luna. Our Profiles are created with intention; to enable complex and characterful espresso-based drinks, and comfortable filter coffees, and now you can subscribe to receive Terra monthly, and easily switch between the Profiles to find your preference.