Penny Rock

Penny Rock

£10.00

£36.00

Penny Rock is the foundation of our coffee offering, and a celebration of the coveted yellow varietals grown in Brazil’s Mantiqueira de Minas region.

 

We select it from seasonal crop to deliver a comforting, dependable, and crowd-pleasing coffee that works equally well as espresso as it does in milk.
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Our Packaging

Our 250g and 1kg bags are made from 83% post-consumer recycled material and are fully recyclable, including the valve and zipper. 

Please put the entire bag in soft plastic recycling (LDPE - Plastic #4) along with plastic bags, bread wrappers and any other plastic film.

If you don't have your own kerbside LDPE recycling collection, you can find your nearest LDPE recycling point here.

Delivery Details

Orders received by 9am Monday / Thursday will be dispatched by Wednesday / Friday with Royal Mail Tracked 24 (or with DPD if over 2kg). Tracking information will be sent to the email and mobile provided at checkout on dispatch.

Rich, round and sweet, with notes of chocolate, honeycomb and raisin.

  • Origin
    Baixadão, Mantiqueira De Minas
  • Country
    Brazil
  • Altitude
    1,350 MASL
  • Process
    Natural
  • Variety
    Yellow Bourbon
  • Notes
    Chocolate, Honeycomb, Raisin
Our latest selection hails from Baixadão in Brazil’s famed Mantiqueira de Minas region. Mantiqueira de Minas sits on the Minas Gerais side of the Serra da Mantiqueira, a mountain range that runs along the borders of Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro states. In 2020 it received Brazil’s first coffee-specific Denomination of Origin status in recognition of its unique terroir and the high quality of the coffee grown in the region. Unlike the common image of Brazilian coffee farms of vast, sprawling plains, and uniform rows of mechanically picked coffee, here there are beautiful rolling hills, and the coffee is hand-picked.

This particular lot is a natural processed yellow bourbon grown by Helisson Afonso and his team at the renowned Sitio Baixadão just outside of Cristina. It's a coffee that has become a real cornerstone of our offering that we return to season after season, consistently delivering a round and sweet cup that works perfectly as a crowd-pleasing house espresso.

Tom first visited Baixadão in 2019, and the experience certainly left a mark. The immaculate rows of perfectly tended coffee trees merged seamlessly and sympathetically with the rolling landscape, testament to the level of care and attention, and the huge amount of work that Helisson's father Sebastião has undertaken over the many years that he has overseen the farm.

All this is manifest in some truly stunning coffees, and culminated in Sebastião winning the 2015 Brazil Late Harvest Cup of Excellence competition with a 95.18 scoring natural catuaí - the highest score awarded in any Cup of Excellence competition to date.

Tom revisited Baixadão in 2022, where he learned that they had recently stopped spraying the crop and applying chemical fertiliser to the soil. They had also started to plant cover crops between the rows of coffee trees with a view to improving soil health. The growing worm population is a great indicator that things are heading in the right direction, and Sebastião’s son Helisson took great delight in digging up the red soil and showing us some fine specimens.

Helisson is now overseeing the work on the farm, and it is encouraging to see how knowledgable and passionate he is about it, leaving us with the feeling that Baixadão will be in good hands for the many years that we hope to continue this journey with them.