Soares Periera Natural

Eduardo and Roberta Soares Periera own one of the biggest coffee nurseries in Brazil and is locally famous for developing cutting edge cultivars. They do quality mapping across processing styles, and win regional awards for their success in the cup. For the 2023 harvest, Eduardo and Roberta built a shade-covered patio to slow down the coffee drying process aiming for a longer shelf life as well as experimenting with using wild yeasts cultured from the farm, converting their production to equipment that uses less water in an effort to preserve wild microflora on the outside of coffee cherry.

Eduardo and Roberta are part of a new generation of young farmers sweeping Brazil’s specialty scene and are excited to find out what's possible for their family’s farm.

But it's a struggle to convince parents that this new approach is not just youthful fantasy - with one approach working so well for so long, it's hard to take specialty seriously. This battle seems to be happening inside households across Brazil, as city-dwelling, college-educated sons and daughters return to the family farm to help their baby-boomer parents prepare for retirement.

Despite all this, success continues to build a case specialty coffee. Between excellent feedback, a good yield, a high price or even just the smallest recognition by someone outside the family, 21st century coffee is gaining recognition. And the case is growing especially strong in the area around Sao Gortado where we find experts educating farmers on what they have and it’s worth. Here we find farmers in their 20s and 30s standing on the shoulders of giants; they are looking near into the future, and see specialty where we in the US have not yet. 

In this coffee we taste notes of Hazelnut, Peanut Brittle, Cacao, Cherry and Caramel 

Medium Roast

Medium Body/Low Acidity