Yuri Pinnotti, Tem Café’s owner, a shop specializing in the direct sale to microlot consumers, mostly small entrepreneurs, highlighted the difficulty in choosing only 10 of the nearly 60 different labels
Lists are, as a rule, unfair, but even aware of this, we went to Yuri Pinnotti’s Tem Café to ask him, exclusively for Grão Especial, to choose the 10 best coffees marketed in his establishment in 2018, among the more than 60 microlots that are sold in the shop.
For Yuri, the mission was complicated. “We are always getting very good coffees at the shop, and choosing only 10 of them was a very difficult exercise,” he explains.
Therefore, with no further ado, let us get down to business:
1st place – Nuance Coffee, produced by Ismael Andrade, from Cerrado de Minas, it was the champion of the Cup of Excellence Brazil Naturals 2018, the biggest award in the sector. Ishmael and his brothers produce excellent coffees in their seven properties;
2nd place – Terroir Faleiros Coffee, produced by the Cafés de Alta Mogiana group, composed of nine farms producing specialty coffees. Terroir Faleiros is produced on the Nossa Senhora de Fátima farm. In 2015, it was voted the best coffee in the Alta Mogiana region;
Café Nuance foi a escolha número 1 de Yuri Pinnotti, da Tem Café
3rd place – Cuesta Coffee, produced in São Sebastião da Grama, SP. The Cuesta farm is owned by the Pinnotti family. Read the full article in the link.
4th place – Owl Hastenreiter Coffee, from the Hastenreiter farm, located in the Matas de Minas region. This is a coffee that is fermented by the anaerobic process.
5th place – Vale dos Barbados Coffee, at the Domingos Martins region, in the state of Espírito Santo, at the municipality of Alto Piraju. The property is surrounded by an extensive strip of Atlantic Forest, rounded by howler monkeys or bearded monkeys. It is considered an exotic coffee.
O microlotes Vale dos Barbados ficou na quinta colocação na preferência de Yuri
6th place – Coopiatã Coffee, produced in Chapada Diamantina, in Bahia, an area known for producing excellent specialty coffees. The Piatã Specialty Coffee and Agricultural Cooperative only works with family agriculture.
7th place – Tozzi Coffee, produced in the city of Brejetuba, in the state of Espírito Santo, won an award in 2017 for Late Harvest, and was roasted by Três Corações.
8th place – Café do Henrique, produced by coffee grower Henrique Sloper, roasted by barista Silvia Magalhães;
Terroir Faleiros foi a escolha de Yuri para o segundo lugar
9th place – Café do Moço, roasted by Léo Moço and produced by the Daterra farm.
10th place – Café Tequila, produced in the Serra da Mantiqueira, more than 1,200 meters high, being ranked among the 25 best coffees at the Coffee of the Year award 2017.
Tem Café is located at Rua Alagoas, 563, Higienópolis, SP, www.temcafé.com.br
Phone: +55 11 3661-3269.
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