巴西是世界上最大的咖啡出口國，佔世界咖啡市場的35％，亦同時擁有微批次產出非常出色的咖啡豆。而由於早期咖啡產區水源並不充足，所以巴西大部分處理咖啡的方法都是採用自然日曬。為了驗證咖啡品質的高低，巴西十年前已經舉辦卓越杯COE比賽，參加的從10公頃的小規模家庭農場到2,000公頃的大型莊園都有。而巴西大型莊園出產咖啡的產量甚至比玻利維亞的總產量還要多！

Brazil is the largest coffee exporter in the world, which complies 35% of the world coffee market. It also produces some truly exceptional coffees and micro-lots. 

To recognize the country’s quality coffees, Brazil pioneered the juried Cup of Excellence competition a decade ago. Farms range in size from small family plantations of less than 10 hectares, up to massive estates in excess of 2,000 hectares. Some of the bigger Brazilian estates produce more coffee each year than Bolivia’s entire output!

Much of the coffee grown in Brazil was processed using the natural method due to water scarcity in the early coffee producing regions. 

Fazenda São Silvestre has been farmed by the Andrade Brothers since 1991. It is located in the north of Minas Gerais, in an area known as the Cerrado Mineiro on the border with Bahia state.

The farm’s volcanic soils provide ideal conditions for growing the farm’s main varieties - Yellow Icatú, Yellow Bourbon and Típica. The beans are harvested when ripe and prepared using the pulped natural process: the cherries are pulped, and the mucilage is left on the beans while they are dried. Depending on climactic conditions, the coffee is either totally sun-dried or completed in two stages where the beans are initially sun dried, bringing the moisture content down to approximately 20%, and then finished in mechanical dryers, bringing the moisture content of the beans to a maximum of 12%.

After drying the coffee is stored in silos, still protected by the parchment or by the husk. After this period of rest, the coffee is milled and sorted prior to export. There is a BSCA standard cupping lab at the farm, where physical and sensorial analysis is carried out by qualified cuppers.