For just $10.99 Description: The Apaixonado Café Brasileño ("Passionate Brazilian Coffee") is a high-quality blend directly sourced for its great value and classic taste profile. Coffee hails from Brazil's gorgeous region of Minas Gerais, this coffee provides a great option for blends, espresso, cold brew, and auto-drip coffee. Flavor: Caramel, Dark Chocolate, Nutty Country: Brazil Region: Minas Gerais Varietal: Mundo Novo and Yellow Catuai Process: Natural Altitude: 1050 M Certification: Direct Trade Good For: Blends, Espresso, Full immersion Coffee was brought to Brazil and planted for personal use in the 1700s and eventually grew into one of the country’s major exports. Some popular areas in Brazil for producing excellent coffees is Sao Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Brasilia regions. Coffea Arabica is the progenitor of the coffee species and produces the highest quality coffee beans. Coffee species are broken down into “varietals” which are hybrids such as the most common, Bourbon and Typica. At one-point, Brazil supplied 80 percent of the world’s coffee. Bourbon is a high yield varietal that contributed to Brazil’s production and allowed the country to fill a production gap created in the mid-to-late 1800s as a result of a significant outbreak leaf-rust, a coffee disease which caused coffee supplies to decline in India, Sumatra, and Java. Abundant in Brazil, Bourbon produces high yield harvests and delivers a flavorful caramel quality. Bourdon is naturally sweet with refreshing, crisp acidity. With many varietals, Bourbon’s flavors slightly differ depending on where it is planted. The Mundo Novo is a dominate varietal species in Brazil accounting for 40 percent of Brazil's coffees and which was discovered in the mid-1900s. This varietal is a hybrid of the Bourbon and Typica, producing high yield and has a high resistant to coffee diseases, making it an excellent varietal for local farmers. The benefits of this plant do not stop though because the Mundo Novo ...