It is always pleasure to get back the Fazenda Passeio, one of our favourite and most consistently selected single origins over the last few years. 

The cleanliness of this coffee has always stood out for a Brazilian natural and this season's crop lives up to those of years past despite a truly challenging growing year with very little rain. After meeting the producer, Adolfo Henrique Vieira Ferreira, in Berlin in 2019, Cloud Picker's head roaster James was able to visit the farm itself on his 2024 Brazil origin trip.  By pure chance, the day he was there Adolfo received confirmation that harvest was ready to begin so James had a chance to pick the very first cherries of the 2024 harvest!

Fazenda Passeio has been owned by the Vieira Ferreira family for four generations. Adolfo puts a strong emphasis on protecting the environment and biodiversity in and around the farm, and on supporting his workers through initiatives such as providing schooling for their children.

Fazenda Passeio lies near the town of Monte Belo in the southern part of Minas Gerais, an area well known for producing some of Brazil's finest coffees. The farm has 130 hectares dedicated to coffee production.

This coffee is hand picked, which is still unusual in Brazil. Handpicking generally results in more evenly ripe cherries going into production. The cherries are pulped the same day as picking to avoid fermentation defects, then dried on patios for a few days before being finished in mechanical dryers.

Passeio - reliable, delicious and anything but ordinary!