Brazil Fazenda Triunfo Natural

Arrived mid July 2024, new crop, in grainpro liners.

This nice Brazil Natural came our way during a cupping event we attended at a conference. The company represents individual property owners in Brazil's top coffee producing areas, many of them smaller farms. Fazenda Triunfo is a property in Minas Gerais, Brazil's premiere coffee producing region, that is owned by an agricultural group called Agricola G8.

At the end of 2001, Agricola G8 was founded  by the Tamekuni, Sakuma, Nakamura, Tanaka and Morita families, originally of Japan, who were members of Coopadap (Cooperativa Agropecuária do Alto Paranaíba), with the aim of producing garlic in the city of São Gotardo, in Minas Gerais. Over the years, G8 diversified its crops by producing soybeans, corn, wheat, and onions. In 2012, it expanded its planting area, also operating in the city of Cristalina, near the capital of Brasilia. Finally, coffee cultivation within the group began in 2019 at Fazenda Triunfo, located in the municipality of Pratinha, Minas Gerais. Since then, G8 has been dedicated to producing this beautiful coffee crop with unique flavors and aromas.

• Farm: Fazenda Triunfo
• Owner Group: Agricola 8
  
• Country: Brazil
• State: Minas Gerais
• Municipality: Pratinha
• Region: Cerrado
• Altitude: 1250 meters
• Variety: Caturra
• Processing: Anaerobic Natural, self induced with yeast
  

We purchased this coffee from Brazilian exporter NuCoffee, which, as noted above, works with individual producers. They also provide technical support to producing farms in their network. NuCoffee has an Artisans Project where their objective is to enhance and improve coffee flavors through fermentation techniques using yeasts specifically tailored to coffee. They apply carefully selected yeasts for coffee fermentation based on variety, altitude and other factors, thus establishing a unique and highly specialized approach previously unprecedented in the Brazil coffee market. This scientific approach is done to achieve specific sensory outcomes.

Edimar, manager of the Agricola 8 Artisan project for Fazenda Triunfo

Through the use of their proprietary Self-Induced Anaerobic Fermentation (SIAF) method and the introduction of starter cultures, the Agricola 8 fermentation process is optimized and accelerated, providing substantial gains in its efficiency and flavor development. Scientific details aside, Fazenda Triunfo's coffee is flavorful, clean and tasty.