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Cia Agropecuária Monte Alegre is a traditional fine coffee producer for almost a century. The company owns the Monte Alegre Farm and belongs to the Vieira family, who acquired the property in 1917. The Vieira family is not involved with other business but only this. |
| Monte Alegre Farm is located in the South of Minas Gerais State, 21°22' South and 46°15' West, in a region noted for its mineral water springs. Its plantation lies at altitudes ranging from 3,000 to 3,600 feet. |  |
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Cia Agropecuária Monte Alegre explore an area of 18,200 ha. This area is not only planted with coffee, but also sugarcane, cereals, eucalyptus and pasture as follows:
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The location of the Monte Alegre Farm allows the best conditions to grow fine coffees. The special combination of latitude and altitude along with the surrounding mountains provide the plantation with specific micro-climatic conditions not to be found in other parts of Brazil. Seasons are very marked, so that the coffee can flower in spring and grow all through summer. The beans mature in the autumn and are harvested during the winter. |
| The coffee plantation is operated and controlled according the databank we have inputted in our computers network: |
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Monte Alegre Farm produces around 100.000 bags yearly -- 30% of washed coffee, 10% of semi-washed coffee, 50% of natural dry coffee, 8% of swept coffee beans and 2% others -- from 7,500,000 Arabica trees of the Mundo Novo, Catuaí, Icatú and Bourbon varieties. |
| The entire production is hand-picked. The berries are selected, pulped and carefully sun dried for about 40 hours. After this natural drying, the beans are stored in wooden bins, in a building made of old bricks with a ceramic tile roof, keeping the humidity and temperature ideal to coffee storage. |  |
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Samples are picked out of the wooden bins and the coffee is processed only a few days before shipment. With this procedure, Monte Alegre Farm can guarantee the maintenance of the original flavor and aroma of its coffees. |
| Monte Algre Farm have three facilities to receive, prepare, dry, and store the pergamino besides the full milling processing: beneficiating, screening, densimetric and color sorting machines.
These unique conditions, combined with almost a century of family tradition and experience, give the coffee of Monte Alegre Farm the mark of best quality: a truly outstanding coffee. |
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| The Monte Alegre Farm trades its own coffee, offering year after year high quality to the specialty and gourmet coffee market: the Monte Alegre Natural, Semi Washed, Full Washed, Peaberries, Bourbon and Espresso Blend. |
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MONTE ALEGRE NATURAL From the Brazilian natural drying process. Full body. Light acidity. A truly outstanding coffee for espresso blends. |
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MONTE ALEGRE SEMI WASHED Pulped Natural. Non-fermented. Dried with the mucilage. Full body. Sweet taste. |
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MONTE ALEGRE FULL WASHED Pulped and fermented by traditional processing system. Medium body. Medium acidity. |
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MONTE ALEGRE PEABERRIES A distinguished cupping taste. From full washed or from semi-washed processing. |
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MONTE ALEGRE BOURBON The noblest coffee variety. Special taste and wonderful flavor. |
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MONTE ALEGRE ESPRESSO BLEND A nice combination of natural, full washed, semi-washed and bourbon. Full body. Mildly sweet and light acidity. |
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CIA AGROPECUÁRIA MONTE ALEGRE Fazenda Monte Alegre Monte Belo/Minas Gerais - Brazil CEP: 37.118-000 Phone: (55-35) 3573-2000 Fax: (55-35) 3573-2007 e-mail: ama@artefinal.com.br |
