BRÉSIL - MANTIQUEIRA DE MINAS - FAZENDA ENGENHO

The new 2022/2023 crop has landed! José Victor Bernardes and Maria Célia Chaib Sousa Bernardes are the owners of Fazenda do Engenho, a legacy of Maria Célia's family, which is located in the city of Carmo de Minas, Minas Gerais.

The cultivation of coffee began on the property in the 1930s. In the late 80's, José Victor and Maria Célia got married and José Vitor started to manage the farm. In the early 90's, José Vitor continued planting new fields with the Yellow Catuaí and Acaia varieties at altitudes of 1100 to 1200 meters.

Shortly after the change of millennium, a new phase began in the region, characterized by improvements in the properties, on which several technological advances were implemented, such as: paved patios, dryers, washers, hullers, resting boxes, processing machines, in which the lots are dried, placed in resting boxes, and processed.
The reward for this pioneering spirit and the work of differentiating the production of specialty coffees was the awarding of the Mantiqueira de Minas geographical indication seal, which guarantees the origin of the coffee batches.

The batches are deposited in the COCARIVE warehouse in Carmo de Minas, where they are classified, cut, processed by sieving and commercialized in the specialty coffee market.