Ipanema Gourmet has been producing coffee since the 1970s and is certainly one of the largest farms we’ve bought from. Their production area, composed of five farms, stretches over more than 4,500 hectares total area. Approximately 70% of this total land is devoted entirely to coffee (the rest is primarily conservation area). It is not surprising, then, that the total annual production at Ipanema exceeds the annual production of several of the world’s smaller coffee-producing countries!

Rio Verde is separated out into 69 different ‘glebes’ – or plots – each of which possesses its own small microclimate and is treated and processed separate from the others. 32 of these glebes are located above 1,000 metres, and special care is taken to preserve the coffee’s natural potential for quality from these. For Rio Verde’s Estate coffees, such as this 100% Acaia, a team of highly trained Q graders will blend individual glebes of the same variety to create a particular flavour profile. For example, this particular Acaia lot, is created from primarily traditional tree dried cherry (Boia), but also from a small percentage of natural cherry (patio dried).