Received 10/26/2009

Fazenda Aurea is located in a region called 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.

Brazilian coffee is intriguing - there's almost no explaining it to the uninitiated. There's a most powerful and unusual aroma to this coffee - it truly reeks! Having said as much please understand, this is a wonderful coffee in the cup, simple, soft, almost velvety, clean and very sweet. Given it's 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.