Parceiros do Café

Origin: Cerrado Mineiro, Brazil

Variety: Arabica (Cataui)

Elevation: 1100 meters above sea level

Processing Method: Natural

Flavor Profile:

• • Almond Brittle, Swiss Chocolate, Dates

Certifications: Farmer Impact Fund, Living Income Pricing

 

This Year’s Harvest

The newest lot of Brazil Parceiros do Café delivers a sweet, satisfying coffee with a creamy, pillowy mouthfeel. In the lighter roasts, expect bright flavors of dried apricot, clover honey, Swiss chocolate, and praline, creating a beautifully layered profile. For darker roasts, the coffee transforms into a richer experience with notes of almond brittle, baker’s chocolate, Medjool dates, and brown sugar. This coffee maintains an impressive balance of sweetness and texture, making it ideal as a silky drip coffee or a refined, complex espresso with an excellent body. Whether enjoyed on its own as a single-origin espresso or used in a blend, this coffee adds depth, body, and a lingering sweetness to every cup, making it a versatile favorite for any brew method.

About The Farmers

Parceiros do Café is an exclusive lot made up of coffee sourced from four different farms—Boa Vista, Fazenda Furnas, Mato Cipo, and Apostolo Simao. Each of these farms is run by dedicated families spanning the Minas Gerais region. This lot is built with quality, transparency, and traceability in mind and established relationships with each of the farms based on both the quality of the cup and the farms' openness to partner on data transparency. Each component brings its own unique quality to the blend and together makes a consistently delicious and clean cup of coffee.

Social Impact

Living Income Pricing

Currently, 80% of the world’s coffee farmers live below the poverty line, with the prices they receive often falling short of what is needed to sustain their livelihoods. Because existing equitable pricing models like Fair Trade and Direct Trade don’t go far enough to lift farmers out of poverty or create sustainable livelihoods for their families, this coffee was purchased using the Living Income Pricing benchmark created by Bellwether Coffee Company. This benchmark guarantees that coffee producers are paid a fair and sustainable wage. By choosing this coffee, you’re actively helping to combat poverty among coffee farmers by paying a price that helps close the living income gap.

What It Is:

Traditional pricing models like Fair Trade and Direct Trade, while helpful, don’t go far enough to lift farmers out of poverty or create sustainable livelihoods for their families. To break the cycle of poverty for the world’s 12 million coffee farmers, a new pricing model is needed—one that pays farmers based on living income rather than global market demand.

How It Works:

Partnerships are formed with farmers and production organizations, such as cooperatives, to gather comprehensive data, including their cost of production, productivity, and lifestyle expenses such as food and education. Using this data, a new minimum price for coffee is established that not only covers production costs but also ensures farmers can thrive in their daily lives. Contracts signed with producers based on this Living Income Pricing model ensure a fair and sustainable wage for their work.

Farmer Impact Fund

Purchasing this coffee also supports the Farmer Impact Fund (another Bellwether initiative) which directly invests in coffee-growing communities. Through this fund, producers receive balloon payments that they can use autonomously for community and farm-level projects. A small surcharge is added to the price of the green coffee beans, and these funds are directly distributed to farmers, creating a direct connection between the consumer, the coffee roasting company, and the lives of coffee producers and their families and community—something unprecedented in the coffee industry.