FrontStreet Coffee Brazil Mogiana Region Fazenda Rainha Natural COE Single Origin Coffee Roasted Beans - Freshly Roasted to Order

Origin: Brazil

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Brazil Fazenda Rainha COE Natural Yellow Bourbon

Country: Brazil

Grade: COE

Region: Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha)

Roast Level: Medium Roast

Processing Method: Natural

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Farm: Fazenda Rainha

Flavor: Lemon, sugarcane, red tea, smooth and delicate

This estate-grade Yellow Bourbon from Brazil's Fazenda Rainha offers full, mature sweetness with rich fruit notes and a persistent aftertaste that leaves drinkers full of praise. Whether used as a single origin in an American coffee maker or as the main sweet component in an espresso blend, it satisfies professional experts and is considered an essential purchase for their bean selection.

Yellow Bourbon beans are naturally sweet and clean. Processed by the pulped natural method (or semi-washed), their acidity becomes slightly bright while keeping tropical fruit aromas, and the abundant aroma during brewing is especially delightful.

Farm Introduction

Fazenda Rainha belongs to the renowned and respected Carvalho Dias family. The family's four major farms have won awards every year since the first Brazil Cup of Excellence competition in 1999, accumulating over 12 awards in seven years. In 2004 they even swept the championship, 9th place and 11th place. Many Brazilian farms, large and small, have struggled for years to qualify for awards, yet this family's farms have consistently taken home multiple prizes. Even Fazenda Rainha, which our company purchased, boasts an impressive record: 2nd place in 2000, 3rd place in 2001, and 29th place in 2005. To date, Fazenda Rainha has won awards three times.

The Carvalho Dias family are also founding members of the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association. Their commitment to coffee quality and environmental protection is evident to all. On their farms they use natural waterfalls to develop pollution-free hydroelectric power, becoming self-sufficient in electricity (another of their award-winning farms is named after this waterfall, the Waterfall Farm). They have built churches, classrooms, nurseries and medical stations while maintaining native forest and continuing reforestation. Take Fazenda Rainha: environmental protection is thoroughly carried out, and because of its high altitude and non-plain terrain, machines cannot be used for harvesting, so all fruit is picked by hand. They cultivate low-yield, high-quality Bourbon varieties, making this a representative estate of Brazil's premium coffee.

Fazenda Rainha belongs to the Carvalho Dias family and has been operating for over 116 years. Located in the mountainous region of São Paulo state near the Minas border, at 1,200 to 1,400 meters, with abundant annual rainfall exceeding 1,800mm but no devastating storms and an average annual temperature of only 19°C, its beans grow more slowly and develop excellent density. Production is lower, but the aroma and flavor far surpass typical Brazilian high-altitude beans. The farm mainly grows Bourbon varieties, including some ancient Bourbon trees over 110 years old. Beyond growing Bourbon, Fazenda Rainha's meticulous and careful processing is another key to its exceptional quality.

Fazenda Rainha's Coffee Processing System

Ripe cherries are hand-picked into cloth bags to keep them off the ground. Fruit harvested on any given day is sent immediately to the farm's processing facility for pulped natural processing. Hand-picking and cloth bags for post-harvest collection prevent earthy flavors and any improper fermentation. At the facility the cherries are washed immediately: they are cleaned and sorted by bean size, filtering out unqualified or dried fruits (bóia beans). Qualified beans then proceed to depulping, using a pulper machine.

After depulping, the beans still retain some mucilage on the parchment. At this stage the beans with remaining mucilage are spread on patios to dry until moisture drops to around 20%. This lets the beans absorb their own starch components while avoiding the drawbacks of full natural processing, where drying flavors cannot be controlled. Those residual mucilage starches create a special sweetness without tipping into uncontrolled off-fruit or moldy flavors.

The beans then go to dryers for final drying, bringing moisture to 11% before being moved into storage to rest. Before export they are hulled and graded. This segmented pulped natural method is one of the main reasons for Fazenda Rainha's consistent flavor. Insisting on Bourbon varieties, of course, is another reason for its excellent reputation.

Fazenda Rainha, Brazil

[Country] Brazil | Region: Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha)

[Farm Name] Fazenda Rainha

[Owner] Regina Helena Mello de Carvalho Dias of the Carvalho Dias family

[Variety] Yellow Bourbon

[Processing Method] Hand-picked, then pulped natural processing

[Harvest Period] Latest harvest arriving May 2006

Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha) Coffee Bean Details

[Origin] Fazenda Rainha (Mogiana) region, Brazil

[Variety] Yellow Bourbon

[Altitude] 1,400-1,950m

[Processing Method] Pulped Natural

[Flavor] Naturally sweet and clean beans. The pulped natural processing makes the acidity slightly bright while beautifully balanced with sweetness. Some lots even display tropical fruit aromas. The abundant aroma during brewing is especially delightful: delicate lemon acidity, the fresh sweetness of sugarcane juice, red tea, and a smooth, delicate texture.

Related Knowledge

The Cup of Excellence (COE) program and trademark are currently owned and managed by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence (ACE), a non-profit organization based in the United States. Each year, ACE collaborates with host countries of the Cup of Excellence on the cupping selection and online auctions of specialty coffees, while also recommending and promoting anything related to coffee quality improvement. The goal is to select exemplary specialty coffees in host countries and exchange experience for the industry to learn from.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If Fazenda Rainha's sweet, clean profile appeals to you, FrontStreet Coffee's Cerrado Red Bourbon is the classic everyday Brazilian single origin. Cerrado is a well-known local region prized for high-quality beans, and this medium roast shows creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel and hazelnut with a rounded body, virtually no sourness and a faint bittersweet finish; it works as a pour-over and equally well in a moka pot, espresso SOE, siphon or French press.

FrontStreet Coffee's Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon is another excellent Brazilian single origin. Grown in Mogiana near South Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil gives the cherries abundant nutrients and a full aroma, it is the rarer Yellow Bourbon, a natural mutation of Red Bourbon with a cleaner fruit character; brewed as a pour-over, moka pot or home espresso, it delivers a sugarcane sweetness not found in other regions, along with fruit and chocolate notes. Both are low in acidity, balanced and affordable, which is why Brazilian beans anchor so many blends: FrontStreet Coffee's Classic Blend, Specialty Blend, Black Cocoa Blend and Commercial Blend all include Brazilian beans for chocolate and cream aromas and a gentle sweet-sour-bitter balance that keeps extraction stable.