Sibaristica Coffee Roasters

CDN Trading

A trading house, not a warehouse — the desk where coffee is bought, positioned and sold rather than the shed where it sits. That made it the right first stop: before seeing a single bag, Sibaristica saw how a Brazilian exporter reads the market, builds a position against the NY board and prices a differential. Varginha is the natural place for that conversation. The city commercialises roughly 25 million bags a year and is the single largest coffee-exporting municipality in Brazil, with Louis Dreyfus, Volcafé, Mercon, Sucafina, Cofco, Olam and Stockler all operating from the same few streets. Av. Salum Assad Davi, where CDN sits, is one of them.

• Trading desk — pricing, positioning and export, not storage
• Varginha commercialises ≈ 25 M bags/yr and stores ≈ 10 M
• Same street as several of the global trade houses

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Minasul

The warehouse day, and the counterweight to CDN: where the trading desk shows how coffee is priced, Minasul shows where the volume physically comes from. Founded in 1958 by a group of Varginha coffee growers, it is today the second largest coffee-exporting cooperative in Brazil, with 9,000 member families spread across more than 250 municipalities and over 2 million bags commercialised a year. The headquarters is a 143,000 m² complex, and the tour runs the whole chain in one building — coffee warehouse, classification laboratory, then the administrative floor. Intake, handling, processing, storage and dispatch are automated end to end with stock control throughout. For a buyer sizing up 30-plus containers a year, this is the answer to whether the volume and the consistency actually exist.

• Founded 1958 · 2nd largest coffee-exporting cooperative in Brazil
• 9,000 member families across 250+ municipalities
• 2 M+ bags commercialised per year · 143,000 m² complex
• Warehouse, classification lab and dispatch automated end to end

Fazenda Labareda — Fazenda Bom Jesus

The first stop at farm level, and the moment the trip stopped being about volume and started being about a name on the bag. Labareda has been producing arabica in Alta Mogiana for over 40 years, at around 1,000 m; the Labareda Group was formed in 1984 and coffee remains the main crop. It is a family operation into its third working generation — Gabriel and Flavia are themselves grandchildren of coffee growers, and their sons work the farm full time. The plantings are Mundo Novo and Yellow Catuaí, and the farm holds Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certification and is recognised by the Alta Mogiana Specialty Coffee Association. Their natural took 3rd place in the region's own quality competition. Alongside the coffee sit more than 140 hectares of natural reserve; the operation runs about 100 people, rising to 180 at harvest.

• 40+ years in Alta Mogiana · ≈ 1,000 m · family into its third generation
• Mundo Novo and Yellow Catuaí
• Rainforest Alliance, UTZ, AMSC member
• 3rd place, natural category, Alta Mogiana quality competition
• 140+ ha of natural reserve · ~100 staff, 180 at harvest

Acauã Armazéns Gerais

The Cerrado's answer to the Varginha warehouse question, and the most technical stop of the week. Acauã holds 4,500 m² of storage for up to 100,000 bags on the edge of the BR-262, storing lots in a Big-Bags system with lot traceability and independent handling so nothing mixes or cross-contaminates. What matters commercially is everything it does besides store: intake in sacks, big-bags or bulk, cleaning and destoning, sifting to a uniform screen, density separation, electronic colour sorting for defects, and blending to a client's spec, then dispatch in several formats including GrainPro. That is precisely the toolset that turns a screen 14/16 or 17/18 requirement into something repeatable container after container. The warehouse belongs to Grupo Olini Rocha, which also farms São Matheus, Galícia, Malhada, Macaúbas and N. S. Aparecida — production and preparation under one roof.

• 4,500 m² · up to 100,000 bags · Big-Bags system, lot traceability
• Cleaning, destoning, sifting, density separation, electronic colour sorting
• Blending to client spec · dispatch incl. GrainPro
• Grupo Olini Rocha — five farms behind the warehouse

Fazenda Rodomunho

The farm that closed the week, and the clearest specialty story on the route. The family came to Cerrado Mineiro in 1985, after frost drove them out of Paraná, and settled on a highland plateau ringed by rock walls and fed by springs — natural barriers and a microclimate that slow ripening and give the cup its definition. In 2019 Thiago Corsi turned the farm toward specialty and toward regenerative agriculture, which here means treating soil and surrounding ecosystem as something to rebuild rather than merely protect, explicitly as a climate-resilience bet. They grow more than 20 arabica varieties, Yellow Bourbon the most expressive among them, with traceability held from planting through to the finished lot. The coffee reaches more than 20 Brazilian states and over 50 countries. This was the on-farm processing and cupping-at-origin stop.

• Family in Cerrado Mineiro since 1985 · specialty turn in 2019
• Regenerative agriculture as a climate-resilience programme
• 20+ arabica varieties · Yellow Bourbon the most expressive
• Traceability from planting to finished lot
• Exports to 50+ countries, present in 20+ Brazilian states