This regional selection has a refined cup with soft acidity and fresh stone fruit notes.  This Yellow Bourbon blend is produced by several smallholder farmers who are members of COCARIVE cooperative in Carmo de Minas.
Coffees are selected by quality and variety, and are processed by our partners at COCARIVE.
COCARIVE gives support to its members in all parts of the production chain. Their team of agronomists and technical experts assists with cultivation techniques, machinery, storage and finally commercialization of the beans. Once parchment is dry, cooperative members send their coffee to the warehouses. The cooperative takes care of grading, commercialization and export. They have their own quality lab and storage and milling facilities in Carmo de Minas. At the dry mill, where they prepare the coffee for export, COCARIVE has its own laboratory for quality control.
Their team of trained cuppers and Q graders makes the first selection based on cup quality. They will verify which lots are suitable and of high enough cup quality for specialty microlots. Their quality control team checks the quality of every lot at a variety of times throughout the dry milling process analyzing both physical green and cup characteristics.