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Amoras Café

Maria Silvia Mendonça smiling beside a coffee tree at the farm
  • Family roots since 1986
  • Three farms, two regions
  • Traceable to the plot
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The Beginning

Four decades of coffee, planted and passed down by one family in Minas Gerais.

A young coffee seedling in red soil at sunset
  1. 1986

    First trees at Fazenda das Amoras

  2. 1988

    A second farm in the Mantiqueira

  3. 2012

    Farm to cup in Belo Horizonte

  4. Today

    Maria Silvia and Gabriela lead the farms together

Four decades. One family. Three farms.

The People

A producer in an Estância Santa Luzia shirt walking between rows of coffee trees

Where family tradition meets the craft of coffee.

Maria Silvia Mendonça
Producer
Felipe Brazza
Producer / Master Roaster
Gabriela Mendonça
Producer / Q-Grader

From Maria Silvia’s first coffee trees to Gabriela’s quality assessment and Felipe’s roasting expertise, the people behind Amoras bring care to every stage, from planting to roasting.

The Land and the Lots

Altitude of the three farms: Fazenda das Amoras 850 m, Estância Santa Luzia 950 m, Sítio Brazzero 1,200 m.
  • Fazenda das Amoras

    Sul de Minas850 m
  • Estância Santa Luzia

    Mantiqueira de Minas950 m
  • Sítio Brazzero

    Mantiqueira de Minas1,200 m

Varieties

  • Yellow Bourbon
  • Red Catuaí
  • Yellow Catuaí
  • Arara
  • Topázio
  • Mundo Novo
  • Acaiá
  • Catucaí

Processes

  • Natural
  • Pulped natural
  • Anaerobic fermentation

The Terroir

Coffee cherries drying on a patio, raked by hand, with green mountains behind
Mantiqueira de Minas

Where altitude takes its time.

A Denomination of Origin region. Slow ripening builds sweetness, structure and delicate acidity.

  • 1,200 mRegional average altitude
  • 18 °CRegional annual average
  • DODenomination of Origin

What Amoras Stands For

Care for the land and for the people who work it.

  1. The land

    Permanent preservation areas protect native vegetation.

  2. Better every harvest

    Yearly investments in harvest and post-harvest to reduce waste and raise quality.

  3. Women in coffee

    Women-led farms, active in the International Women’s Coffee Alliance.

Certifications & memberships

  • Fairtrade
  • BSCA, Brazil Specialty Coffee Association
  • 4C
  • Certifica Minas Café
  • Aliança Internacional das Mulheres do Café, Brasil
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