WHAT WE DO

Treating the beans right

The Penta Process®

Planting

Contrary to what many people think, our producing area is not big. Actually it is a series of small farms that make up our whole coffee growing lands: more precisely Daterra is divided in 216 mini-farms, of only 5 to 15ha. Each of them is traced in a GPS based system, and we know all history and information about every little area, as if it was a single plantation in a farmer’s backyard.

Harvesting

Each terroir is harvested individually, based on the optimum maturation level of the cherries. This moment is determined by cupping the coffee before harvesting as many times as we need, until it reaches the best ripening spot.

Separation

Those wonderful coffee cherries must be separated and sorted to produce the very best coffee beans. Cherries are selected by its natural maturation stage, in a new unique technology. It guides each coffee cherry individually to the right maturation group it belongs. It is a process that took over 10 year to be designed, developed and built.

Drying

Beans are dried with precision, to the right levels of moisture and are then taken to “rest” in wooden silos for over 40 days, softening its taste and highlighting all the positive attributes that will be later found in the cup.

Sorting

All minor defects are sorted out in a complex sorting process that uses from screen size and a modern density separation, to a set of 5 electronic sorters. Those sorters work with different and complementary light-sorting systems, which narrow defects down to the lowest levels. The output is an extremely clean and pure coffee batch, containing only the most perfect beans produced with lots care by our people.

Packing

Penta Pack® is an outstanding package for excellent green coffees. It is composed of a carton box with two foiled bags inside. The content goes through vaccum and inert gases insertion. Each bag weighs 12,10 kg / 26 lbs and the total box weight is 24,2 kg / 53,25 lbs. It is extremely easy to handle and it has proved to keep – and in some cases to improve – coffee quality for over 3 years storage. Developed by Daterra the Penta Pack® is patented internationally.

3 Farms

masterpiece

Each year our masterful Cuppers search the vast potential of Daterra for unique small lots of coffee, Our Masterpieces.

This very “small farm” is a lab, where we test new ways of producing coffee. The lab is rich with new and unusual varietals, processing methods, drying techniques and limitless experiments.

They have unique cup profile and score 88+, fully traceable, and are planted and grown with history and can never be replicated.

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collection

Our Collections are the top quality coffees from our current menu. They are the best coffees from our plantations and are completely processed using the Daterra Penta Process®.

Those are coffees that score 86-89, fully traceable and usually used as single origins.

This is our “small to mid-size farm”.

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What attributes come to your mind when someone says Brazil Cerrado? Our Classics are the best representatives of Cerrado coffee, with the benefits of Daterra quality.

This is our larger-volume farm. Classics are used as a single origin or as an outstanding blending base, scoring 80 to 86.

These coffees offer great cost-benefit for those clients who desire good and consistent quality.

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Awards and Recognition

  • Cup of Excellence finalist in 2001;
  • Best coffee from Brazil on the cupping for Quality by Rainforest Alliance in 2005 and 2008;
  • Espresso Blend used by World Barista Champion, Troels Poulsen, in 2005;
  • Espresso Blend used by World Barista Champion, Klaus Thomsen, in 2006;
  • Sustainable farm model by Illy Café in 2008;
  • Four out of the six WBC finalists used Daterra coffee in their blends in 2008.
  • Coffee used by World Latte Art Champion, Haruna Murayama, in 2010;
  • Blend used by World Syphonist Champion, Chizuru Motokawa, in 2010;
  • Brazil’s most Sustainable Farm, by Globo Rural Magazine in their 2015 Sustainble Farm Award.
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