Brazil Fazenda Rainha Yellow Bourbon Single Origin Coffee Flavor Description Characteristics Planting Information Planting History

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Fazenda Rainha's Coffee Processing System

Mature cherries are hand-picked into cloth bags to avoid contact with the ground. All cherries harvested on the same day must reach the farm's processing facility that same day for pulped natural processing. Hand-picking into cloth bags prevents earthy flavors and any improper fermentation. When the cherries arrive at the facility, they immediately undergo "washing": the cherries are cleaned, and unqualified or dried beans (bóia beans) are filtered out by size. The qualified beans continue to the pulping stage.

After the pulp is removed, some mucilage remains attached to the parchment shell. The beans are then placed on patios to dry until moisture content drops to around 20%. This stage lets the beans absorb their own starch components while avoiding the drawback of full natural processing, where the drying process flavors cannot be controlled. Those residual mucilage starches provide a special sweetness without tipping into uncontrolled off-fruit or moldy flavors.

The beans are then sent to drying machines for final drying, bringing moisture content down to 11%, and moved to warehouses for resting. Before export, hulling and grading are performed. This segmented pulped natural method is one of the main reasons for Fazenda Rainha's stable flavor profile. Insisting on Bourbon varieties is another reason for its excellent reputation.

Coffee Information

Altitude: 1,200-1,400 m

Processing Method: Pulped Natural

From Brazil's estate-grade Fazenda Rainha Yellow Bourbon comes a full, mature sweetness with rich fruity notes and a persistent aftertaste that draws consistent praise. Whether used for American-style brewing or as the main sweetness component in an espresso blend, it satisfies professional experts and is listed as an essential purchase.

Yellow Bourbon beans are naturally sweet and clean. Using pulped natural (semi-washed) processing makes their acidity slightly bright yet balanced, with tropical fruit aromas, and the aroma that overflows during brewing is particularly delightful.

Fazenda Rainha belongs to the Carvalho Dias family and has been operating for more than 116 years. It is located in the mountainous region near the Minas border in São Paulo state, at altitudes of 1,200-1,400 meters, with abundant annual rainfall exceeding 1,800 mm without causing flooding, and an average annual temperature of only 19°C. The coffee fruit therefore grows slightly slower but with sufficient density. Although production is lower, its aroma and flavor are unmatched by typical Brazilian highland beans. The farm mainly grows Bourbon varieties, including Bourbon trees over 110 years old. Besides the varieties, Fazenda Rainha's meticulous processing methods are another key to its excellent quality.

Farm Details

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: Hand-picked, then pulped natural processing

Harvest Period: Latest harvest arriving May 2006

Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha) Coffee Bean Details

Origin: Brazil, Fazenda Rainha (Mogiana) region

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

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. ACE collaborates each year with COE competition host countries to complete cupping selection and online auctions of specialty coffee, while also recommending and promoting anything related to coffee quality improvement. The goal is to select exemplary specialty coffees in host countries and exchange experiences for industry learning.

Flavor: Sweet, clean beans. Pulped natural processing makes their acidity slightly bright yet beautifully balanced with sweetness, with some lots even showing tropical fruit aromas. The aroma that overflows during brewing is particularly delightful. Delicate citrus acidity, the fresh sweetness of sugarcane juice, black tea, and a smooth, refined texture.

Hand Brew Recipe: Brazil Fazenda Rainha. 15 g coffee, medium grind (Fuji Royal grinder #4), V60 dripper, 88-89°C water temperature. First pour 30 g water, 27-second bloom. Pour to 105 g and pause. Wait until the water level drops halfway, then continue pouring slowly until 225 g. Avoid the tail end. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Fazenda Rainha (Queen Farm) is located in the Alta Mogiana region of São Paulo state, north of São Paulo city. The farm is highly renowned in Brazil and owned by the Carvalho Dias family. The family's four major farms have won awards every year since the first Brazil COE competition in 1999, with over 12 awards in 7 years. In 2004, they even swept champion, 9th place, and 11th place. Many Brazilian farms have hoped to win over the years but found it difficult; this family's farms, by contrast, have won multiple awards consecutively. Fazenda Rainha alone holds a brilliant record: 2000 runner-up, 2001 third place, and 2005 29th place, three awards to date. Yellow Bourbon beans are naturally sweet and clean, and the estate's pulped natural processing makes their acidity slightly subdued yet beautifully combined with sweetness, with tropical fruit aromas.

Farm Introduction

This Fazenda Rainha belongs to the renowned and respected coffee family, the Carvalho Dias family. The family's four major farms have won awards every year since the first Brazil COE competition in 1999, with over 12 awards in 7 years. In 2004, they even swept champion, 9th place, and 11th place. Many Brazilian farms have hoped to win awards over the years but found it difficult to achieve; this family's farms, however, have won multiple awards consecutively. Even this Fazenda Rainha holds a brilliant record: 2000 runner-up, 2001 third place, and 2005 29th place, three awards to date.

The Carvalho Dias family are also founding members of the Brazilian Specialty Coffee Association, with evident commitment to coffee quality and environmental protection. Within their family farms, they use natural waterfalls to develop pollution-free hydroelectric power and become self-sufficient in electricity (another award-winning family farm is named after this waterfall, Waterfall Farm). They build churches, classrooms, nurseries, and medical stations, insist on preserving original forests with native flora and fauna, and continue reforestation efforts. At Fazenda Rainha, environmental protection is thorough. Because the terrain is higher-altitude and not flat plains, mechanical harvesting cannot be used; all fruit is harvested entirely by hand. They also cultivate low-yield, high-quality Bourbon varieties, representing the essence of premium Brazilian coffee.

Product Information

Producer: FrontStreet Coffee

Address: No. 10 Bao'an Front Street, Yandun Road, Dongshankou, Guangzhou

Contact: 020-38364473

Shelf Life: 90 days

Net Weight: 227 g

Packaging: Bulk

Bean State: Roasted coffee beans

Sugar Content: Sugar-free

Origin: Brazil

Roast Level: Medium roast

Brazil Fazenda Rainha COE Natural Yellow Bourbon

Country: Brazil

Grade: COE

Region: Mogiana (Fazenda Rainha)

Located in the mountainous region near the Minas border in São Paulo state, at altitudes of 1,200-1,400 meters, with abundant annual rainfall exceeding 1,800 mm without causing flooding and an average annual temperature of only 19°C, the coffee fruit grows slightly slower but with sufficient density. Although production is lower, its aroma and flavor are unmatched by typical Brazilian highland beans. The farm mainly grows Bourbon varieties, including Bourbon trees over 110 years old.

Roast Level: Medium roast

Processing Method: Natural

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Farm: Fazenda Rainha

Flavor: Lemon, sugarcane, black tea, smooth and refined

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

For a Yellow Bourbon that captures this sweet, clean Brazilian character, FrontStreet's Brazil Queen Estate is a natural choice. Grown in Mogiana, where fertile red volcanic soil helps the fruit develop concentrated aromatics, it is a rare Yellow Bourbon, a natural mutation of Red Bourbon, with a cleaner fruit quality. Through a pour-over, moka pot, or home espresso machine it shows a sugarcane sweetness rarely found in other regions, along with soft fruit and chocolate notes.

If you want the approachable everyday version of Brazilian coffee, FrontStreet's half-sun Cerrado Red Bourbon is a classic single-origin. Medium roasted, it delivers creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut aromas with a rounded body, gentle bitterness, and almost no acidity, and it works equally well as a pour-over, in a moka pot, as an espresso SOE, in a siphon, or in a French press.