

NICINHA MENDES – SEQUOIA FARM A BRAZILIAN COFFEE THAT SHOWS JUST HOW ELEGANT A NATURAL CAN BE. Chocolate, caramel, and yellow fruits come together with a creamy body and a long, elegant aftertaste. This natural coffee from Sequoia Farm combines classic Brazilian sweetness with remarkable clarity and precision. This coffee is produced by Nicinha Mendes, one of the leading producers at Sequoia Farm in Chapada de Minas. A coffee that combines sustainability, modern agriculture, and decades of experience. COFFEE AT A GLANCE Origin: Brazil Region: Chapada de Minas, Minas Gerais Producer: Nicinha Mendes Farm: Fazenda Sequoia Variety: Catucaí Process: Natural Altitude: approx. 1,200 masl Harvest: 2025/26 Our Price: €9.88/kg Farm Gate Price: R$ 46.67/kg / 9.09 USD/kg / FOB Price: 9.75 USD/kg Purchased: 360 kg Lot: B701 Partner since 2026 Sourcing & Import: Royalty Coffees Certification: Rainforest Alliance / BSCA Photo credit: Royalty Coffees WHY WE CHOSE THIS COFFEE Brazil has much more to offer than just standard chocolatey coffees. This lot impressively demonstrates just how elegant and complex modern Brazilian naturals can be. It’s not just the cup profile that wins us over. The philosophy behind the farm also aligns with our values: long-term investments, protection of natural resources, and high-quality agriculture rather than short-term profit maximization. FLAVOR IN THE CUP The first impression is classic milk chocolate and caramel. Then, yellow stone fruits like peach and apricot emerge, accompanied by molasses and a delicate sweetness. The body is creamy and smooth, and the aftertaste is long, elegant, and balanced. A Brazilian coffee with depth—without feeling heavy. WHO IS THIS COFFEE FOR? Ideal for people who enjoy: chocolatey, caramel-flavored espressos sweet natural-processed coffees balanced fruitiness elegant Brazilian coffees fully automatic machines, portafilter machines, moka pots, ibrics THE VARIETY CATUCAÍ Yellow Catucaí is one of Brazil’s most exciting modern Arabica varieties. It was developed through crossbreeding Catuaí and Icatu. Through Icatu, it carries a small genetic contribution of Coffea canephora, which makes the plant more resistant to disease. For us, this is a wonderful example of how breeding can help combine quality with adaptability. In the cup, however, Yellow Catucaí remains distinctly Arabica: sweet, balanced, and elegant. PROCESSING This coffee is processed using the natural method. The ripe coffee cherries dry slowly along with their pulp. This results in intense sweetness, a creamy mouthfeel, and the characteristic notes of chocolate, caramel, and yellow fruits.
NICINHA MENDES – SEQUOIA FARM A BRAZILIAN COFFEE THAT SHOWS JUST HOW ELEGANT A NATURAL CAN BE. Chocolate, caramel, and yellow fruits come together with a creamy body and a long, elegant aftertaste. This natural coffee from Sequoia Farm combines classic Brazilian sweetness with remarkable clarity and precision. This coffee is produced by Nicinha Mendes, one of the leading producers at Sequoia Farm in Chapada de Minas. A coffee that combines sustainability, modern agriculture, and decades of experience. COFFEE AT A GLANCE Origin: Brazil Region: Chapada de Minas, Minas Gerais Producer: Nicinha Mendes Farm: Fazenda Sequoia Variety: Catucaí Process: Natural Altitude: approx. 1,200 masl Harvest: 2025/26 Our Price: €9.88/kg Farm Gate Price: R$ 46.67/kg / 9.09 USD/kg / FOB Price: 9.75 USD/kg Purchased: 360 kg Lot: B701 Partner since 2026 Sourcing & Import: Royalty Coffees Certification: Rainforest Alliance / BSCA Photo credit: Royalty Coffees WHY WE CHOSE THIS COFFEE Brazil has much more to offer than just standard chocolatey coffees. This lot impressively demonstrates just how elegant and complex modern Brazilian naturals can be. It’s not just the cup profile that wins us over. The philosophy behind the farm also aligns with our values: long-term investments, protection of natural resources, and high-quality agriculture rather than short-term profit maximization. FLAVOR IN THE CUP The first impression is classic milk chocolate and caramel. Then, yellow stone fruits like peach and apricot emerge, accompanied by molasses and a delicate sweetness. The body is creamy and smooth, and the aftertaste is long, elegant, and balanced. A Brazilian coffee with depth—without feeling heavy. WHO IS THIS COFFEE FOR? Ideal for people who enjoy: chocolatey, caramel-flavored espressos sweet natural-processed coffees balanced fruitiness elegant Brazilian coffees fully automatic machines, portafilter machines, moka pots, ibrics THE VARIETY CATUCAÍ Yellow Catucaí is one of Brazil’s most exciting modern Arabica varieties. It was developed through crossbreeding Catuaí and Icatu. Through Icatu, it carries a small genetic contribution of Coffea canephora, which makes the plant more resistant to disease. For us, this is a wonderful example of how breeding can help combine quality with adaptability. In the cup, however, Yellow Catucaí remains distinctly Arabica: sweet, balanced, and elegant. PROCESSING This coffee is processed using the natural method. The ripe coffee cherries dry slowly along with their pulp. This results in intense sweetness, a creamy mouthfeel, and the characteristic notes of chocolate, caramel, and yellow fruits.
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For us at PATAP, coffee is more than just a drink. It is history, trade, exploitation - and at the same time taste, culture and encounter. We roast to show that there is another way: transparent, fair and uncompromisingly good. Our coffees do not come from anonymous warehouses, but directly from people who know what they are doing: small farmers, cooperatives and family businesses with real expertise and attitude. We buy consciously, pay prices that make sense and disclose what we are left with. Transparency is not marketing for us, it's standard. Our roasts show what Specialty Coffee can do: Fruit, depth, clarity - sometimes also rough edges. No showmanship, but honest craftsmanship with respect for origin and product. As the first officially SFCC-certified roastery in Switzerland, we made responsibility and transparency in the coffee trade visible early on. Today, there are more certified companies - a good and important sign for the industry. Without the producers, we would be nothing. That's why we don't take ourselves too seriously - but we do take what we do very seriously.
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