We searched far and wide for this coffee which we have named Samba as the tasting notes, dark chocolate, treacle and hazelnuts really do dance on your tastebuds. All the way from Brazil which is well defined for it’s rainy and dry seasons allowing the cherries to grow slowly and homogeneously.

Located in the municipality of Franca in Alta Mogiana, not far from the border to Minais Gerais, Fazenda Amapá has been in the Carraro family for two generations. Alberto Carraro, father of the current producer, emigrated from Italy when he was 19 years old. At that time, the Brazilian coffee industry needed manpower and estates financed the move of Europeans willing to start a new life in Brazil. Alberto Sr. worked for a year in a coffee farm, until he paid his debts and went away from coffee. In 1959, Alberto Sr. bought Fazenda Amapá - which marks his return to coffee and the start of a successful family business.His first-born son, Alberto took over the farm in 1976 after his father passed away.

Producing coffee in an environmentally friendly manner is essential to the Amapa team, part of the estate has been reserved for forest preservation as well as water spring protection, making fishing and hunting forbidden on the estate, their soil is also meticulously managed to preserve erosion.