Brazil Paulo Vicente de Morais
Brazil Paulo Vicente de Morais
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Ships directly from Mirra Coffee, roasted to order every Wednesday and shipped Thursday (order by Tuesday night NYC time for that week’s roast). US delivery is typically 2–6 business days. Orders with coffees from more than one roaster arrive as separate boxes. Shipping & freshness →
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Tasting Notes
Specific flavors and aromas the roaster (or our team) noticed when cupping this coffee. They describe the brewed cup, not flavorings added to the beans.
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Roast Level
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Roast Level
How dark the beans are roasted, on a 'specialty' scale where Light/Ultralight preserves the most origin character.
Read more in the glossary → - Specialty Light/Ultralight
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Flavor Profile
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Flavor Profile
High-level flavor families this coffee leans toward — fruity, floral, sweet, chocolate/nutty, spicy, tea/botanical, or fermented/wine-like.
Read more in the glossary → - Fruity, Tea/Botanical
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Origin Type
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Coffee Type
Whether a coffee is a single origin (from one farm, region, or country) or a blend (multiple origins combined).
Read more in the glossary → - Single Origin
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Flavor Notes
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Flavor Notes (SCA)
More specific flavor families inside the broader profile, using the SCA Coffee Taster's Flavor Wheel — e.g. 'Citrus' and 'Berry' inside 'Fruity'.
Read more in the glossary → - Berry, Tea
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Caffeine
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Caffeine
Whether this coffee is caffeinated or decaffeinated, and (for decaf) which process was used.
Read more in the glossary → - Caffeinated
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Country of Origin
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Country of Origin
Where in the world this coffee was grown, or 'Multiple' for a blend with beans from more than one country.
Read more in the glossary → - Brazil
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Process Type
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Processing
How the coffee cherry was prepared after picking — dried with or without its fruit, fermented under specific conditions, etc. Big effect on the final cup.
Read more in the glossary → - Honey
Cost per 250mL serving - $1.81
When Mirra first began, there weren’t any real plans to source from Brazil for our standard black coffee menu, having in essence written it off because of the generally-deserved poor reputation for quality and general complexity in Brazilian coffees. However, we love a challenge, so we set ourselves the task of tracking down—or at the very least trying our very best to track down—some stunning, surprisingly one-of-a-kind lots from Brazil. With this super clean and delicate honey acaia from Paulo Vicente de Morais of Sitio 5 Estrelas (1.020 masl) joining our other Brazilian lot of the season, from Matheus Avellar, we are so excited to share the first fruits of this project with the world. When enjoying this one, what first stands out to us is both the degree of cleanness of the cup, as well as the clarity with which the note of a more dark, tannic, roasted oolong comes through. To temper this more dark and heavy note, we find a lovely, bright hit of sweet goji berry, and the refined, powdery florality of white orchid.
Acaia is a specific selection of the mundo novo variety, which itself is a hybrid of the typica and bourbon varieties. It was developed and released in the 1940s by the Brazilian Instituto Agronomico de Campinas, and remains, by and large, an exclusively Brazilian-grown variety. Large bean size, yield consistency, and reliably good cup quality are characteristic of acaia, and it is well suited to Brazil’s lower altitude growing conditions.
All coffee is sold whole-bean to reduce oxidation, and increase the longevity of volatile organic compounds.
