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Ace of Diamonds - Brazil - Monte Carmelo

from £12.00

The Ace is back, ready for the festive season.

A medium roast natural Brazilian, grown by women farmers in Monte Carmelo, Cerrado Mineiro, through the Café Delas programme.

Expect chocolate, hazelnut and dried fruits. Add milk and it goes full festive: the first flat white we made at home tasted exactly like a Ferrero Rocher.

Café Delas started in Brazil to give women coffee farmers the resources, knowledge and voice to grow their farms to their full potential. Every coffee comes from farms owned by women, who are paid directly and earn a premium on top, shared back as cash, equipment or training. A portion of every sale also goes into programmes for gender equality in the field.

Cerrado Mineiro is a high, flat plateau in Minas Gerais, and in 2013 it became the first coffee region in Brazil with its own Denomination of Origin. Its long, dry harvest season is made for naturals: the whole cherry dries slowly in the sun with the fruit still on, which is where that dried fruit sweetness comes from.

Best for: espresso and milk drinks, cafetière, Aeropress, moka pot.

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The Ace is back, ready for the festive season.

A medium roast natural Brazilian, grown by women farmers in Monte Carmelo, Cerrado Mineiro, through the Café Delas programme.

Expect chocolate, hazelnut and dried fruits. Add milk and it goes full festive: the first flat white we made at home tasted exactly like a Ferrero Rocher.

Café Delas started in Brazil to give women coffee farmers the resources, knowledge and voice to grow their farms to their full potential. Every coffee comes from farms owned by women, who are paid directly and earn a premium on top, shared back as cash, equipment or training. A portion of every sale also goes into programmes for gender equality in the field.

Cerrado Mineiro is a high, flat plateau in Minas Gerais, and in 2013 it became the first coffee region in Brazil with its own Denomination of Origin. Its long, dry harvest season is made for naturals: the whole cherry dries slowly in the sun with the fruit still on, which is where that dried fruit sweetness comes from.

Best for: espresso and milk drinks, cafetière, Aeropress, moka pot.

The Nerdy Bit

Varietals - Catuaí and Mundo Novo

Altitude - 800 to 1,200m

Cupping Score — 84

The Producer — Café Delas is run by green coffee importer Covoya. It began in Brazil in the early 2020s and has since spread to other origins. Every coffee in it comes from a farm owned by a woman, who is named as the owner in Covoya’s buying records and paid directly for her coffee. On top of the price, each lot earns a premium that goes back to the farmers as cash, equipment or training in quality and farm practice, and members commit to taking a leadership role in their local coffee communities.

This lot comes from around Monte Carmelo in Cerrado Mineiro, a high plateau where coffee has only been grown commercially since the 1970s, once farmers learned to treat the acidic soils and irrigate the dry ground. Today the region covers around 210,000 hectares of coffee across 55 municipalities, and in 2013 it became the first in Brazil to earn a Denomination of Origin.

Process — The Catuaí and Mundo Novo cherries are picked ripe and dried whole, skin and fruit still on, on raised beds in the sun for several weeks and turned regularly so they dry evenly. Cerrado’s reliably dry harvest season is what makes this work so well: the sugars from the fruit soak into the bean as it dries, giving you the chocolate, hazelnut and dried fruit sweetness in the cup.