BASECAMP ESPRESSO: BRAZIL SÍTIO ROCINHA

Recommended Retail Price: £9/250g

A classic Brazilian coffee made for milky espresso drinks: nutty, chocolatey, full bodied and sweet. 

We love to explore the full delicious spectrum of flavours specialty coffee has to offer, but we also know there’s a time and a place for a mug of something easy, familiar—that’s why we roast our Basecamp Espresso. It’s a seasonal, single-origin fully traceable coffee, just like our other beans, but the flavour profile is always the same: nutty, chocolatey, mellow, sweet and full bodied. It’ll be an easy dial-in and a crowd pleaser with or without milk.

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Basecamp Brazil Sítio Rocinha
Producer: Demétrio Flaviano De Oliveira
Region: Pedralva, Minas Geras
Altitude: 1,100 m.a.s.l.
Varietal: Red Catuaí
Processing: pulped natural

Our latest Basecamp bean has the hallmark flavour notes we look for in this coffee. It tastes like milk chocolate, mandarin orange, biscuits, and caramel. This mellow profile is perfect for espresso coffees.

Sítio Rocinha is owned and managed by Demétrio Flaviano De Oliveira. The farm was acquired by Demétrio’s father in 1962. The family began cultivating coffee in 1970 and since then they’ve grown the farm and coffee has become their primary source of income.

This is the first coffee we’ve purchased from a new specialty Brazil importer called Unic. Founded in 2021 the company has just four employees, but seems to be growing quickly, probably due in no small part to how excellent their coffee is. It’s hard to be competitive in the Brazilian coffee market because it’s so large. Brazil exports more coffee than any other country in the world, so buyers have a lot of options.

Unic caught our eye with the quality of their offering and the story of their founder, Thalita Masiero. Brazilian by birth, her family has a long-standing connection to agriculture and in 2019 they acquired a farm in Santa Rita do Sapucai, Minas Gerais, situated in the Serra da Mantiqueira region. The farm had a neglected coffee plantation that they decided to revitalise. Through conversations with locals and individuals in the coffee community, Thalita came across a group of women called Enpreendedoras do Cafe who inspired her. She decided to embrace the opportunity to bring coffee to the UK and make a positive impact. “Instead of simply being another trader, I am part of their community,” Thalita tells us.