Brazil - Sitio Baixadao - Full Natural - Yellow Bourbon - Sublime

Our Sublime designation represents a coffee that is farm traceable and usually a smaller sized lot than what we would purchase for our Regional Selects. We cup through many many offerings from our partners each year to decide on the lots that we want to import and offer to you. If there is a farm you’ve had in the past but don’t see now just let us know and we can make sure to get you some samples when we request offers.  Sitio Baixadao produced one of the highest scoring coffees in Cup of Excellence History and is a consistent favorite amongst our sourcing team. Their award winning lot scored 95 points in the 2015 Late Harvest Auction. Their farms are collectively owned by two brothers, Antonio Marcio and Sebastiao Afonso. They grew up in a large family with 13 siblings who worked mostly in rice production. About 20 years ago they decided to transition into specialty coffee production. What started as just one hectare of land dedicated to coffee cultivation turned into a deep passion for producing some of the best coffees in the world! In addition to their incredible terroir, one of the things that makes Baixadao a leader in the industry is their obsessive focus on even the smallest details of post production. Sebastiao Afonso’s tactical approach to farming is inspiring from their placement of their parabolic drying house to utilizing drones for the application of soil nutrients.

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