{"product_id":"sitio-pico-do-bone-junior-martins-red-catuai-natural-vovo-brazil","title":"Sítio Pico do Boné, Junior Martins, Red Catuaí - Natural - Brazil","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eName: Sítio Pico do Boné Lot Vovô\u003cbr\u003eRegion: Araponga, Matas de Minas, Minas Gerais, Brazil\u003cbr\u003eProducers: Junior \u0026amp; Edlaine Martins  \u003cbr\u003eProcess: Natural\u003cbr\u003eVariety: Red Catuaí\u003cbr\u003eAltitude: 1,250 MASL\u003cbr\u003eTasting Notes: hazelnut, milk chocolate, loquat, canned pear, honeycrisp apple\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUse a 1:16.6 ratio with 198˚F water  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMore\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis coffee is a beautiful example of our approach to sourcing because it embodies three things we care deeply about: \u003c\/span\u003eQuality, Relationship, and Impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the fall of 2023, Little Waves co-owner and green coffee buyer \u003c\/span\u003eAreli Barrera Grodski\u003cspan\u003e traveled with BD Imports to Matas de Minas to visit producers participating in the \u003c\/span\u003eBlack Brazilian Producers Program\u003cspan\u003e. We met many skilled and knowledgeable coffee producers who, as families, steward their farms with incredible care and dedication, often incorporating sustainable and organic practices into their work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the farms we visited was \u003c\/span\u003eSítio Pico do Boné\u003cspan\u003e, a gorgeous, lush 15-hectare farm that feels like a true oasis. We were welcomed with fruit grown right on their land—passion fruit, bananas, enormous avocados, loquats, and citrus—and spent the day walking the farm and learning about the family’s history, their coffee, and their vision for the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCoffee runs four generations deep in the Aparecida family. Junior’s parents, \u003c\/span\u003eAbraão da Silva and Dona Aparecida Martins\u003cspan\u003e, were the first generation to move from sharecropping to owning their own land. It took years of sacrifice and determination.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCristiene, Junior’s sister, told us that her father would load his ox cart and make the two-hour round trip to the family’s farm, carrying about 100 coffee plants at a time. Dona Aparecida remembers that he sometimes made as many as five trips in a single day. Together, the family planted 12,000 coffee trees this way. Today, the farm is home to around 40,000 trees.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYou can feel the history of that work when you walk through Sítio Pico do Boné—the passion, love, sweat, blood, and tears that have gone into building this farm. The coffee plants thrive from it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbraão passed away in 2016, but his legacy continues through his children. Today, Junior, Cristiene, and their family are investing in specialty coffee, working toward exporting their coffees for higher premiums while also developing their own roasting and coffee brand. Their pursuit is not simply about producing better coffee, but about creating greater opportunity and value for the family farm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis particular \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elot is steeped in history, tradition and a deep love for coffee as it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ewas planted by Dona Aparecida and Sô Abraão with great affection, dedication, and care at every stage. The high elevation, cool climate, and stony soils of the farm provide an ideal environment for coffee, while Juninho (Junior) and Edlaine (Junior's wife) continue to tend the farm throughout the growing season.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe cherries were handpicked by Juninho and Edlaine and carefully dried by hand on a concrete patio. 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