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About this lot
ORIGIN Coffee production in Brazil is responsible for more than one third of all coffee cultivated worldwide. The environment and climate provide in the southeast of the country benefits from ideal growing conditions. The country produces a staggering amount – approximately 50-60 million bags annually – and more than five million people are directly employed in the cultivation, harvesting or processing of coffee in the country. PRODUCER Fazenda Barreiro was founded in 1820 by Joaquim Bernardes da Costa Junqueira, who acquired then-uncultivated land around the spa town of Poços de Caldas in the southern region of Minas Gerais. His son, Agostinho José da Costa Junqueira, planted the first coffee fields towards the end of the 19th century, at an average altitude of 1150m in the fertile lands and mild climate of the São Domingos Mountain Range. Over the past 30 years, his great grandson, Fra