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Igarapé, Brazil: Rising from the Flames, One Cup at a Time
Milk chocolate, caramel, nougat and roasted hazelnut make Igarapé sound like a straightforward comfort coffee. Yet beneath its familiar sweetness lies a deeper story.
Grown in Brazil’s Cerrado region, this speciality lot combines the warmth and familiarity of a classic Brazilian profile with a commitment to protecting the landscapes beyond the coffee farm. For every kilogram sold, contributions are added to the Apuí Emergency Fund, supporting environmental work in the Amazon region.
An 83-point cupping score places Igarapé within the speciality category, recognising the clarity, consistency and care behind its production. Rather than relying on sharp acidity or intense fruit character, it finds distinction through texture, sweetness and a carefully composed flavour profile.
Approachable but refined, it is a coffee designed to be enjoyed every day while still revealing the craft behind each cup.
The Coffee Beans
Brazil’s Cerrado region is one of the country’s youngest and most dynamic coffee-producing area. However Cerrado is becoming one of the world’s most recognised coffee-growing areas. Its elevated plateaus, distinct wet and dry seasons and generations of agricultural knowledge have created conditions well suited to Arabica cultivation.
Igarapé is produced from two classic Brazilian Arabica varieties: Mundo Novo and Catuai.
Mundo Novo contributes structure, body and cocoa-like sweetness, while Catuai brings brightness, sweetness and a softer clarity to the cup. Together, they create a profile that reflects the character of Brazilian coffee itself: balanced, approachable and quietly complex.
At 1,250 metres, Igarapé benefits from cooler temperatures that allow cherries to develop gradually, giving sugars and aromatic compounds more time to form.
Igarapé is naturally processed, allowing the coffee cherries to dry with the fruit still surrounding the seeds. During this stage, sugars and flavour compounds from the surrounding fruit gradually influence the developing bean, enhancing sweetness, body and depth.
This process requires patience and precision. Cherries must dry evenly, with careful attention to airflow, temperature and moisture. When managed well, natural processing creates richness without overwhelming fermentation, allowing flavours of caramel, chocolate and roasted nuts to remain clear.
More than just the coffee: the Apuí Emergency Fund
Beyond the farm itself, Igarapé’s story reaches into the wider Brazilian landscape. The Amazon rainforest is one of the world’s most important ecosystems. It stores vast amounts of carbon, regulates rainfall across South America and provides habitat for an extraordinary variety of wildlife. Yet every year, large areas are lost to deforestation and uncontrolled fires.
One of the biggest drivers is slash-and-burn agriculture. Vegetation is cut down before being deliberately burned to clear land for farming. While the practice can create fertile soil in the short term, repeated burning damages ecosystems, releases huge amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere and makes surrounding forests more vulnerable to wildfires.
During particularly dry years, these fires can spread far beyond the land originally being cleared, threatening wildlife, local communities and healthy forest that may have taken centuries to grow.
For every kilogram of Igarapé sold, contributions are added to the Apuí Emergency Fund, supporting environmental work in the Amazon region. This Fund helps address these challenges through wildfire prevention, rapid fire response, forest restoration, environmental education and support for local communities working to protect the landscape. Contributions from Igarapé have formed part of a $50,000 co-funded initiative that has helped protect and restore eight hectares of rainforest over the past four years.
By choosing Igarapé, you are supporting the people and forests of Apuí as they work to replace a legacy of fire with one of regeneration and renewal.
A Coffee Made for Espresso
With its generous body and natural sweetness, Igarapé is particularly suited to espresso. Concentrated brewing draws out its chocolate depth, caramel richness and lingering nutty finish.
The same qualities translate beautifully into milk-based drinks. A cappuccino highlights its cocoa notes, a flat white emphasises its texture, and a latte brings forward its caramel sweetness.
However, every espresso brewed from Igarapé offers more than notes of chocolate and caramel. It also contributes to a wider effort to protect the landscapes that help define Brazil’s coffee story.
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