This treasure from Brazil's Daterra Estate is a pulped natural microlot (less than 8000 lbs total from an estate with millions of trees) of the Mundo Novo varietal with chocolate and orange-spectrum notes reminiscent of the finest East African heirloom coffees. A limited offering but espresso-heads will be flocking to it...

First planted in the 1980s, Daterra Estate was Rainforest Alliance's first certified farm in Brazil, and is located in an area where the natural vegetation is grass, shrubs and low trees. Because the ecosystem (a savannah about 1100 meters above sea level near Patrocinio in Minas Gerais state) does not lend itself to shade coffee, the beans here are grown in sun and planted in tight rows. Rainforest Alliance certification and organic processing should promote conservation of the natural ecosystem called cerrado, wherein 35% of the area must be set aside for wildlife.