ELDORADO FARM
The grower Mr. Laerce Franca Faleiros has been working with coffee for more than 55 years. He is married to Mrs. Lucia Vilhena, daughter of Mr. Vilhena. Both families, Vilhena and Faleiros have a very long entrepreneurial tradition producing great coffees.
Today the farm is managed by Mr. Laerce’s son Elvis, a second generation farmer whose whole life has been in the world of coffee. His stories have always had great examples in his family, and he wants to leave a legacy for his children through sustainable production, looking for quality coffees and sending better coffee direct from farm for the most demanding customers. People who think special will make a special coffee.
He started with the fermentation process 6 years ago, in 2014, in the beginning of this wave in Brazil. It is very important to get high quality and they experimented with a lot of options such as lemon, wine, tangerine and other incredible fruits.
The coffee of the natural process in all 7 farms of the Eldorado group has resulting intense sweet flavours and they also use the honey process that helps in the intensity of sweetness and amazing notes of caramel.
Eldorado is one of the pearls of Alta Mogiana, and has already accomplished a number of awards. In 2017, the coffee from Eldorado was the 16th in the Cup of Excellence Naturals Category, with 89 points on the SCA cupping method.
In the last competition, organised by AMSC (Alta Mogiana Speciality Coffee) in the city of Franca, Mr. Laerce and Mrs Maria won the 1st place of Quality on the Microlots category. The lot that won was a very unique and complex coffee with notes of strawberry jelly.
New drying processes like raised African beds and controlled fermentation were implemented on the last crop of 2018-19. Besides the microlots, Eldorado has a large production of speciality coffees with grades between 83 and 85 points, becoming a key supplier for medium and large importers and roasters around the world.
A city with climate, altitude and perfect temperatures for growing coffee, Ibiraci has already produced several coffee champions in the Alta Mogiana quality championships, and in 2019, the 1st place in the Cup of Excellence Brazil edition. It is no accident that the main economic activity of the city is coffee production.
In 2001, Mr. Laerce France Faleiros, founded the Cooperative dos Cafeicultores de Ibriraci – Cocapil, where the coffees are received, prepared, and stored in the family’s warehouse. In 2020, Cocapil received more than 300,000 60kg bags of coffee, and 25,000 bags out of this volume are Rainforest Alliane Certified coffees. Working only with fine and speciality coffees, the cooperative is able to promote the farms as a Direct Trader with 100% traceability in the warehouses. In their coffee lab, every single lot is tasted in order to match the desired cupping profiles of our end customers.
They are pioneers on the transparency commercial relationships with the producers that their coffee lots reach high grades according to the SCA cupping methodology paying a better price to their members. Each lot that we receive is proven by our Q-graders.
