Brazil – San Coffee – Chocolate Recipe

San Coffee -Chocolate Recipe is one of San Coffee main recipes, produced with consistent quality every year with coffees from the farms who are members of the cooperative.

About San Coffee

San Coffee is located in the town of Santo Antônio do Amparo and it’s 20 members in the municipality of Santo Antônio (or a neighbouring one) in the northern part formerly known as Sul de Minas. For this reason, the region “Campo dos Vertentes” is becoming a new denomination of origin. The farms range between 70 and +1,000 hectares. In Brazilian standards, a mid-sized farm is ±100ha, the average is ±200ha and +1,000 is very large.”

San Coffee was born in 2000 out of a dream shared by a group of coffee growers located around the town of Santo Antonio do Amparo, State of Minas Gerais. Very early, these growers had a vision for the nascent specialty coffee market and for advancing coffee farming in the region. With great support and encouragement from Mr Fernando Paiva, pioneer of specialty coffees in Campo das Vertentes since the ’60s, these producers acquired a warehouse and founded the cooperative. Over time, this infra-structure has evolved to state-of-the-art, automated, dry milling machinery and warehousing solutions.

Since its inception, San Coffee has been a major driving force for the development of specialty coffee in the Campo das Vertentes region. Deeply inserted in the local community, San Coffee is a proud supporter of initiatives to generate progress and prosperity through the coffee business. Along with the member farms, the coop is engaged in several projects aiming social and environmental responsibility to ensure the sustainability of the coffee activity in the long term. As a result of these efforts, San Coffee has been awarded the B-Corp seal in 2019.

In commercial terms, San Coffee has always been guided by transparency and trust, resulting in long-lasting relationships around the world, with most customers over 10 years. Nowadays, consistency, innovation, integrity, stewardship and transparency, still govern the actions of San Coffee, seeking to constantly adapt to new market trends and using coffee as a carrier to create a better life for all those involved.

Social initiative: Beyond Borders Program

The Beyond Borders is a small coffee holders program created in 2012 with the purpose of promoting prosperity among growers from Campo das Vertentes region and their families, in order to provide them with access to the specialty coffee markets.

Key Numbers

– 03 associations
– 157 small growers
– 3,497 exported bags (60kg)
– 61 % premium paid above local market
– US$ 23,985.46 contribution given by the buyers

Origin – Brazil
Process – Natural
Altitude – 940m – 1010m
Harvest – May – September
Species – Coffea Arabica
SCA score – 83.75
Varietal – Mundo Novo, Catuai Vermelho, Catucai Amarelo

Rory’s tasting notes:

Exciting acidity! Low-medium in intensity but quality of tartaric and citric acidity is great. Delicious peach sweetness and a heavy and creamy body. The aftertaste is tea-like and sweet.