Fazenda Primavera HIU Washed Yellow Catuai from Minas Gerais, Brazil: Varieties, Brand Recommendations and Estate Information

Although this region grows a wide range of coffee, its industrial policy centers on mass production at low cost, so exceptionally premium lots remain relatively rare. Even so, these coffees make excellent blending components.

Brazilian coffee features low acidity supported by coffee's natural bitterness and sweetness. It enters the mouth remarkably smooth, with a subtle grassy aroma. The clean, faintly bitter taste is pleasant on the palate, and the aftertaste leaves you refreshed. Brazilian coffee may have no single outstanding trait, but it also has no significant flaw: this mild, smooth profile - low acidity, moderate body, and a touch of sweetness - forms a harmonious blend of gentle notes, and teasing the individual flavors apart is the ultimate test for your taste buds.

Coffee Heritage and Regional Characteristics

On some estates in the Cerrado region of Minas Gerais state in southeastern Brazil, the old Bourbon and Yellow Catuai varieties are still cultivated. Though these estates share the same region, each coffee has its own distinct character. Despite that diversity, Brazilian coffee suits popular tastes well: as the largest coffee-producing region, it supplies the various grades and types that account for one-third of global consumption, holding a significant position in international coffee trading. And although Brazil faces natural disasters several times more frequently than other regions, its vast cultivable area more than makes up for it.

Fazenda Primavera Yellow Catuai

Variety: Yellow Catuai (washed process)
Flavor Notes: Orange, peanut, roasted rice tea, nuts, and a caramel finish, with the sweet-tart sensation of fresh orange juice and a smooth texture - classic Brazilian coffee character.

Yellow Catuai is a hybrid of Mundo Novo and Caturra, first bred in 1949 by Brazil's Instituto Agronômico de Campinas. Like Red Catuai, it shows excellent disease resistance and is well suited to cultivation at higher altitudes.

Brewing Instructions

Pour-over for Fazenda Primavera: 15 g of coffee at a medium-coarse grind (Fujimarco conical burr grinder, setting 4), V60 dripper, water at 88-89°C. Begin with a 30 g bloom for 27 seconds, then pour to 105 g and pause. Once the water level drops halfway, continue pouring slowly to 225 g total, skipping the tail end of the extraction. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, total extraction time 2:00.

Brazil Primavera Washed Yellow Catuai

Country: Brazil
Estate: Fazenda Primavera
Region: Minas Gerais
Roast Level: Medium
Process: Washed
Variety: Yellow Catuai

Brazil HiU Micro Lot

The HiU program is a coffee quality improvement initiative for Central and South America proposed by Mr. Graciano Cruz of Panama, renowned for his honey processing expertise.

The program applies natural or honey processing to micro lots, and only coffees cupping above 85 points earn the HiU certification mark - a win-win for both estate owners and processors.

Flavor Notes: Orange, nuts, roasted rice tea, peanut

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If this Yellow Catuai wins you over, FrontStreet Coffee's Queen Estate Yellow Bourbon from Mogiana, Brazil is the natural next step: a rare yellow Bourbon mutation grown in rich red volcanic soil, offering clean sugarcane sweetness, fruit aroma, and chocolate in a balanced, low-acid cup. For a classic everyday Brazilian, FrontStreet Coffee's pulped natural Cerrado Red Bourbon delivers creamed peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut at a medium roast - great for pour-over, moka pot, or espresso.