Brazil's Nossa Senhora Aparecida Estate Yellow Bourbon Natural Process 92 Points Becomes Brazil COE Champion

FrontStreet Coffee - Brazil Nossa Senhora da Luz Estate Yellow Bourbon Natural Introduction

Estate Overview and Awards

Nossa Senhora da Luz Estate is located in Minas Gerais, Brazil's most productive region for specialty coffee. In 2013, the estate's coffee scored 92.22 points, taking the championship of Brazil's COE (Cup of Excellence) late-harvest season with the highest score of that competition.

The estate belongs to the couple Regina Lucia and Edmo Villela. Their sons Cinthia, Tatina, Claudia, and Rnoney Dias Villela now manage it, and the fourth generation of the family has already begun entering the coffee business.

Bourbon is a branch of Arabica, and it comes in several color variants: red Bourbon, yellow Bourbon, pink Bourbon, and orange Bourbon — plus the rare pointed Bourbon, whose extremely low yields make it a seldom-seen market curiosity. Yellow Bourbon is the odd one out: its fruit ripens to yellow rather than the deep red of typical coffee cherries. It carries high sweetness and suits both light and dark roasting, and in recent years yellow Bourbon lots have frequently placed in the top three of COE competitions, drawing remarkable attention.

This lot earns an impressive cupping score of 87, with flavors of tropical fruits, passion fruit, jackfruit, cantaloupe, cherry, and red berries, a medium-to-high body, and a guava and red-wine aftertaste. (Its winning COE lot scored even higher, at 92.22.)

This Brazil Nossa Senhora da Luz is especially suitable for those who enjoy full body and sweetness. Although Brazil produces enormous quantities of coffee, high-quality Brazilian beans that both show true regional character and stay clean in the cup are genuinely rare.

Brazil Nossa Senhora da Luz Estate Yellow Bourbon Natural

Region: Minas Gerais

Altitude: 1300m

Variety: Yellow Bourbon

Processing: Natural

Flavor: Tropical Fruits, Jackfruit, Red Berries

In Brief

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FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

As the world's largest coffee producer, Brazil offers an enormous range of coffees, all marked by moderate acidity and a beautiful balance of sweetness, bitterness, and body — which is exactly why they take so well to a medium roast that fills the room with nutty aroma and a smooth, faintly tart cup, whether brewed as a single origin or used in a blend.

If you simply want a taste of classic Brazil, FrontStreet Pulped Natural Cerrado is the go-to: a Red Bourbon lot from the renowned Cerrado region, roasted medium to reveal creamy peanut, toasted bread, caramel, and hazelnut aromas with a rounded, non-acidic mouthfeel and just a light bitter edge. It works as pour-over, and just as well in a moka pot, as an espresso SOE, in a siphon, or a French press. For something rarer, FrontStreet Fazenda Rainha (Queen Estate) Yellow Bourbon comes from Mogiana near southern Minas, where fertile red volcanic soil feeds plump, aromatic cherries — a natural mutation of red Bourbon with a cleaner fruit character, offering sugarcane sweetness, fruit notes, and chocolate you won't find from other origins.

Brazil's low acidity and balance also make it the backbone of FrontStreet's espresso lineup: the crema-rich Classic Blend, the nutty Premium Blend, the balanced Black Cocoa Blend favored by baristas, and the cafe-oriented Commercial Blend all include Brazilian components, adding chocolate and cream aromas plus gentle sweet-sour-bitter structure and the steady extraction stability that espresso demands.