Brazil Ipanema C6 Green Apple Gold

Premier Cru, Gold Edition
Origin: Sul de Minas, Brazil
Farm: Ipanema, Fazenda Rio Verde
Process: Natural Cherry with Anaerobic Fermentation
Varietal: Yellow Catuai
Tasting Notes: Redcurrants, Red Apples, Red Florals, Ceylon Tea
Filter Roast, available as 200g

Ipanema is one of Brazil's big estates, and Premier Cru is the small corner of it. Since 2018 the estate has set aside very small, hand-finished lots from the highest ground on Rio Verde, its oldest farm, at 1,030 to 1,090 masl in Sul de Minas. The green coffee is even nitrogen-flushed and vacuum packed before it ships, the kind of care usually saved for roasted beans.

The name is a code. C6 is the glebe, the exact plot the cherries came from. Green Apple is the note Ipanema's cuppers found loudest in the lot. Gold is the grade, one of three editions: Black, Gold and Blue.

It's Yellow Catuai, fermented whole in the cherry without oxygen, then dried as a natural. That's a lot of process for a Brazil, and it doesn't drink like one. No nuts, no chocolate. They called it green apple; in our roast it lands redder. Redcurrants first, bright and tart, then crisp red apple and a lift of red florals, finishing clean on Ceylon tea.

Brew it as a pour over and let it cool. The apple gets sweeter as it does.

200g bags only.

Roasted fresh in Singapore. Rest 5 to 7 days.