Brazil - Romero dos Reis Moreira - Natural

Altitude: 1100 MASL
Process: Natural
Farm: Fazenda Lembrança
Varieties: Mundo Novo

Romero dos Reis Moreira got his start in coffee at a young age working for a coffee cooperative in the city of Carmo do Paranaíba. In 2010 he moved to the Pântano community in the city of Coromandel to begin his career with the Tina Group. Here he began working in partnership with Teissin Tina and his sons Gilberto Tina and Edson Teiko. Together they work in search of high quality coffee, aiming for economic sustainability as well as environmentally responsible production. Today, Romero’s sons Vitor Aparecido Moreira and Jeovana Aparecida Moreira work Fazenda Lembrança with their father, learning the passion and skills of the trade.

This lot of Mundo Novo coffee underwent Natural processing. Mundo Novo is the product of a natural cross between Sumatra and Red Bourbon, discovered in the municipality of Mineiros do Tietê, São Paulo in 1943. Seeds from one of these trees were planted in the municipality of Mundo Novo, now called Urupês, in Sao Paulo state. Various lines of the plant were cultivated here, undergoing selection for positive characteristics. The results of this cultivation were finally distributed to farmers beginning in 1952, with new selections by the IAC (Agronomic Institute of Campinas) beginning in 1977.