Brazil Tres Barras Estate Coffee
Brazil Tres Barras Estate Coffee
Here is one of our favourite Brazils of the last few years. Alongside Maranhao and Vargem, Patricia produces fantastic coffee, that is incredibly sweet and easy to drink. In some seasons her coffee can be as fruity as summer pudding and in other years (like this one) it is more of a classic caramel, chocolatey affair.
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Tres Barras Estate Coffee
Farmer: Patricia Mendonca
Varieties: Obata, Catuai, and bourbon.
Location: Sao Sebastiao De Grama, Mogiana
Process: Natural
Farm size: 59 Hectares; 40 of which are grown as coffee.
Harvesting: Manual
Roast: Espresso Roast
Cup Profile:🥣
Aromatics: Chocolate and sugarcane | Body: Med | Acidity: Sweet|
Espresso:
Milk-based drinks: 94C, 17g into 34g for milk-based drinks worked brilliantly in 27- 30 seconds!
9oz milk-based drinks were so good! For what looks to be a shy espresso (if you are judging by colour) there are lots of lactic sugars and some dark chocolate. The 6oz (flat white) was juicy and bright like the cooling filter, with a balance of chocolate and soft fruit. Getting this perfect will all be about milk temperature…
The espresso. 93-94C, 17g into 45-50g in 28-35 seconds. If your shots are not in the zone, taste them. You might like them…seriously. We could hardly believe just how well this worked in espresso. The low acidity meant that we still had all of the sweetness of a good filter in the cup, with a milk chocolate base. No wild acidity and no shocking strength!
Farm Stuff
Sao Sebastiao De Grama is famous for producing speciality coffee. Patricia and her husband Luiz bought Tres Barras in 2017 as a standard “coffee farm”. Patrícia made a big career shift and bought the farm to produce high-quality speciality coffees and live closer to nature. Their goal is to explore the exceptional flavours that their coffees can bloom, based on responsible and careful production.
For the record (you can laugh at me if you like! I have) it turns out that Tres Barras means 3 bars in Spanish. Barra in Portuguese means a geographic formation that occurs close to the water, like a small beach. I asked Patrícia about the farm name and she said that her husband Luiz named it this way because his grandfather had a farm named Tres Barras when he was a boy. They sold the first “Tres Barras” many years ago, but when Luiz bought his piece of land he named it honouring his childhood memory.
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