VOLCANO CALDAS - origin profile
Lot Code:
Volcano Caldas #07k
Crop / Harvesting date:
Crop 2014/15 / 12th of June – 19th of July
Estates
AS Estate, Junqueira Estate and Sítio Porta do Céu
Origin:
Volcanic Micro Region of Poços de Caldas - Brazil
Altitude:
1000m to 1200m
Variety:
Mundo Novo and Catuaí
Harvesting System:
Manual
Dry Process:
Natural
Volcanic Micro Region of Poços de Caldas - Brazil
The Volcanic Microregion of Poços de Caldas is an authentic Brazilian coffee terroir, where farms are scattered along slopes of one of the most geologically rich volcanic calderas in the world.
With average heights from 1,000m to 1,300m, rich combination of volcanic minerals and rainforest soil and a rare climate condition, this unique microregion has ideal conditions for growing excellent and exquisite profiles of specialty coffees.
The subtropical altitude climate offers to this terroir an excellent rainfall rate and the largest thermal amplitude for a whole day among all the Brazilian coffee growing regions, creating outstanding conditions for the maturation of the beans and triggering a burst of flavors for the coffees.
These are natural vocations which join a culture based on quality and sustainability principals.
Volcanic Microregion
of Poços de Caldas
Sustainability - Economic, Social and Environmental
Volcano Origin Coffees works through a close relationship with growers who can produce truly specialty green coffees. Besides the offer of high quality coffees, these estates presents a preserved Atlantic Rainforest environment, with a rich fauna, flora and full of water spring, together with very low chemical inputs in the coffee farming.
The manual harvesting system - hand picked - ensures both employment and income generation to the community, together with several benefits offered by the growers as housing, electricity and social hub in most cases.
To ensure the continuity of this sustainable coffee culture, Volcano Origin Coffees values the growers economically, paying fair prices for their specialty coffees and stimulating them for a consistent production of high quality coffees crop after crop.