Fazenda Joao de Campos is located in a region called Alto Paranaíba near Serra do Salitre, a high plain in Cerrado Miniero, in the state of Minas Gerais. Minas Gerais is in the west of the southeastern subdivision of Brazil, the second most populous of the 26 states of Brazil, and fourth largest by area in the federation. This is no micro-lot; it's a big farm that produces a lot of this coffee, yet much smaller and at a higher altitude than our last Brazillian offering, the Fazenda Aurea. Altitude is always a good thing for the flavor of your coffee, as the harvest ripens slower, with more flavor. This coffee roasts up creamy, soft and alluring and rather delicate in the cup.

Brazilian coffee is intriguing -- there's almost no explaining it to the uninitiated. This is a wonderful coffee in the cup, simple, soft, almost velvety, clean and very sweet. Given its moderate acidity and intense aroma, you taste this coffee more in the back of your mouth than the tip of your tongue, adding to it's mystique. This coffee works very well for espresso; it produces a huge head of soft creamy crema.

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