Fontana - Brazil
Chuťový profil: Horká čokoláda, karamel, trstinový cukor
Popis produktu
| Cultivar: | Mixed Varieties |
| Process: | Natural |
| Flavour: | Dark chocolate, caramel, brown sugar |
| Producer: | José Carlos Grossi |
| Region: | Cerrado Mineiro |
| Altitude: | 840-1150 masl |
| Q sore: | 81 pts |
| Harvest: | 2024 |
FONTANA - BRAZIL
There may be more coffee than blood flowing in the veins of Grossi family. Their coffee roots reach back to 1887 when José Carlos Grossi’s great-grandfather, Luigi Grossi, and his grandfather, Antônio Grossi, came from Italy to Brazil to work in the coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo.
Around 1950, José Carlos’ father, Matheus Grossi, started his first coffee plantation after acquiring a small property in the northwest of Paraná. By that time, coffee was already family business with the aim of improving the quality and productivity of coffee plants.
José Carlos was one of the first producers to venture into the Cerrado. Encouraged by great coffee-growing conditions, he planted his first coffee trees in the Cerrado Mineiro region in 1972, marking the pioneering spirit of the JC Grossi & Filhos brand. It took José Carlos years of physical and financial input in his crops before he began to reap the rewards of his hard work.
But even in 1994, after 20 years of growing coffee in the Cerrado, the relationship between the soil and coffee varietals was still shrouded in mystery, so José Carlos had to do something different if he wanted to grow coffee of remarkable quality. He set up experimental fields in partnership with some Brazilian institutions to develop genetic materials adapted to the climatic conditions and soil of the Cerrado.
Chácara Modelo became the first experimental field to develop genetic materials appropriate to the climatic and soil conditions of the region.
The successful development of the varietal IBC 12 stands out as one of the family’s biggest achievements. In 1995, José Carlos drew up a list of test varietals and named them IBC. The varietal that stood out the most in terms of quality, productivity and bean size was number 12 – the IBC12.
IBC12 spread throughout the Cerrado region since then, and it was launched by the Campinas Agronomic Institute as IAC-125 RN. Grossi family continues to cooperate with institutions, seeking the best coffee varieties adapted to the Cerrado Mineiro, attesting to the persevering innovative approach of the family.
