Daterra Estate Coffee Beans

Recently, I came across some information about an independent auction coffee bean lot — beans from Daterra Estate. Daterra Estate hails from Brazil, a giant in the coffee world and a technologically advanced country, and is located in the Minas specialty coffee region of Brazil. Daterra Estate is one of the few specialty coffee farms in Brazil and has been growing coffee since the 1980s, now with over 40 years of history.

Daterra Estate was founded in 1974 in Patrocínio, Minas (MINAS) Province, at an altitude of over 1,150 meters. In its early days, the farm primarily grew avocados and raised cattle, and it wasn’t until the 1980s that it fully committed to coffee cultivation. To this day, it has a history of over forty years.

The reason Daterra Estate gained fame is that the 2005 and 2006 World Barista Championship (WBC) champions, Troels Poulsen and Klaus Thomsen, both used Brazilian Daterra Estate coffee beans during their competitions. In 2008, four out of the top six WBC finalists used Daterra products. Furthermore, Emi, the 2018 World Brewers Cup (WBrC) champion, used Daterra Estate’s SLN (Slender Bourbon) coffee beans. This clearly shows the exceptional quality of Daterra Estate coffee beans.

Brazilian Daterra coffee differs greatly in flavor from typical Brazilian beans, offering complex and high-quality sweet fruit aromas and a pleasant citrus acidity. Additionally, its aftertaste, body, and aroma are enriched with hints of vanilla and caramel. Such distinctive flavors stem from Daterra Estate’s location in high-altitude regions with superior terroir, far removed from Brazil’s lower-altitude coffee-growing areas. The estate benefits from high altitudes, a healthy ecological environment, and advanced modern coffee farming technologies, all of which combine to create Daterra Estate’s outstanding coffee flavor profile.

The terroir of Daterra Estate is exceptionally favorable. Compared to other Brazilian coffee-growing regions, Daterra emphasizes sustainability, with over 50% of its land designated as protected areas. It also places great emphasis on advancing technology and adopting modern agricultural production and management practices. The farm is divided into different blocks, with variety zoning, rainfall and production recording, as well as production management and monitoring implemented accordingly. Meanwhile, the estate has considerable expertise in coffee processing, with meticulous and flawless processing techniques — one of Daterra Estate’s core strengths.

That said, it’s important to note that Daterra Estate is not a single coffee farm, but rather encompasses the high-altitude, high-quality coffee farms of the Minas Gerais region. Coffee cultivation is mainly carried out by a series of farms, totaling 216 individual farms, each ranging from 5 to 15 hectares. Once the coffee cherries are ripe, they are sent to Daterra Estate for centralized mid-to-late-stage processing, followed by drying, bagging, and centralized storage and management. The coffee is then sold globally under the name (or company) of the Daterra Coffee Estate.

Daterra Estate currently offers three series: the Daterra Collection (Daterra Collection), the MASTERPIECES By Daterra (Daterra Masterpieces Series), and the Daterra Classics (Daterra Classics Series).