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Agricultural EstateSaudade

Products

Cocoa, coffee, oils, spices and preserves.

  • Fine cocoa beans

    Criollo and Trinitario cocoa grown under the shade of ocá and erythrina, on the east-facing slope.

    Process
    Hand-picked in two passes per plot. Pods broken the same day. Six-day fermentation in cedar boxes with two turnings. Slow drying on raised beds for nine to twelve days, sheltered from afternoon rain. Beans hand-sorted before bagging.
    Plot of origin
    Parcela Ribeira Alta — encosta nascente, 640–710 m
    Indicative price
    18 EUR · 500 g (placeholder value, to be set by the developer)

  • Highland Arabica coffee

    Old-stock Arabica inherited from the Monte Café estate plantings, kept under high canopy.

    Process
    Selective picking of ripe cherries, one by one. Same-day pulping. Wet fermentation of 18 to 24 hours depending on the morning temperature. Washed in a running tank and dried on raised beds. Hulled and size-graded only days before dispatch.
    Plot of origin
    Parcela Alto do Obô — 780–860 m
    Indicative price
    16 EUR · 250 g (placeholder value, to be set by the developer)

  • Artisanal palm kernel oil

    Cold-pressed kernel oil for culinary and cosmetic use.

    Process
    Fallen bunches gathered, with no palm felled. Gentle cooking, kernels separated by hand, cracked with a pestle and cold-pressed in a screw press. Forty-eight-hour settling and cloth filtration. No refining or bleaching.
    Plot of origin
    Parcela Baixa do Rio — 520–580 m
    Indicative price
    12 EUR · 250 ml (placeholder value, to be set by the developer)

  • Sub-canopy pepper and spices

    Black pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon harvested in the lower storey of the agroforest.

    Process
    Hand-picked in ripe clusters. Brief blanching to fix colour. Sun-dried on mats through the morning for five to seven days, gathered in before the afternoon damp. Packed whole; never ground in storage.
    Plot of origin
    Parcela Ribeira Alta — sub-bosque, 600–660 m
    Indicative price
    9 EUR · 100 g (placeholder value, to be set by the developer)

  • Preserves from the estate orchard

    Breadfruit, mango and passion fruit preserves, made in small batches.

    Process
    Fruit picked ripe and processed the same day in the estate kitchen. Slow open-pan cooking with local brown sugar and lime juice. Hot-filled, with no added pectin or preservatives. Batches of fewer than sixty jars.
    Plot of origin
    Parcela Horta Velha — 560 m
    Indicative price
    7.5 EUR · 220 g (placeholder value, to be set by the developer)