Fazenda Mio Gesha Espresso

Origin: Brazil

Process: Honey

Variety: Red/Yellow Catucai & Mundo Novo

Importer: Fazenda Mio

Harvest: 2022/2023

Per-Kilogram green price: £5.4

Amount purchased: 120kg

Location: Mió is a coffee farm in Monte Santo de Minas, Brazil, that exports, imports, stores, and sells coffee. Coffee harvested with care by Mió workers. The farm spans a total of 1,589 hectares.
A third of the land is used for the coffee processing and milling facilities, some pasture areas and the plantation of eucalyptus trees, which is home to some lovely bees. The rest of the land is equally divided between the coffee trees and the native forest reserve. With plenty of spring water in the estate, one of Mió’s responsibilities is to not only maintain the water flow but to also improve water quality.

Process: Peaberry Honey. This involves the mechanical depulping of the cherries at the wet mill while ensuring the mucilage stays attached to the beans. This sticky part of the cherry contains high amounts of sugar, resulting in a pronounced body and developed, chocolaty sweetness in Mio's coffee. " The term peaberry describes the beans that are small and round due to a natural phenomenon in which only one bean grows inside a coffee cherry. There are no differences in flavour or quality compared to regular-shaped beans.