About Brazil Seriema Cerado

Seriema is a single origin Cerrado coffee from our pals at Fazenda Aurea. They buy the dry natural cherries from their neighbors and blend it with their own production, so you get classic Cerrado flavours but with more consistency and a bit more love!

The Seriema has big smooth body, medium intensity and good balance, yet sweet, nutty with hints of chocolate. Great espresso base!

About Fazenda Aurea

Fazenda Aurea is in a region called Serra do Salitre, a high plain in Cerrado Miniero, Minas Gerais state. At 1200 meters, the Serra do Salitre has better altitude than most of Cerrado proper, which averages 800-900 meters for coffee production.

The farm came to be as a result of a wealthy Brazilian banker who came up here in the 1970’s to become a coffee baron (it’s actually pretty normal in Brazil). The Cerrado was not a great coffee growing region but nonetheless he bought the 13-kilometre long strip of land and got to work to create his own world. He built a grand square on the farm where the farmhouse is located. Across the square (and lower than the house) is a recreated colonial chapel. Surrounding the square is worker housing and workshops. Leading up to the square, he created a grand boulevard (two lanes in each direction) lined with palm trees that he named 5th Avenue. It is said that when he would come to the farm from the city, he would stand up in the back seat of his convertible Cadillac and wave his hat to the few assembled workers as he made his processional to the main square. Those days are long gone, but the farm is still here.

Coffees from this farm prove to be great for espresso; either as an excellent consistent base for blends or some can stand up well as singles. Because of the sheer size of the farm and mill, as well as the fact that they buy coffees from a bunch of other nearby growers, we source a big selection of coffees which are all quite different.

Read Scott Reed (Zephyr) travelogue from his 2009 trip to Brazil.