We're all familiar with Cruz Alta, having been a staple of our single-origin offering over the past few years, so you bet we were even more excited to get it into pod form for the first time...

Fazenda Cruz Alta had its first planting in 1923 when Ladário Deodoro da Silva took on the land and turned to coffee to support his family. Many years on, his grandson, Enison Lopes Ferreira, is continuing in the family's footsteps on the Cruz Alta farm with help from his younger brother and three children.

In 2016, the family began a quality project to guide the planting of speciality coffee over the next ten years. The initiative has seen the farm move to particularly focus on soil characteristics, altitude, sun position and varieties before new crops are planted. They have also invested in improved post-harvest production including suspended terraces to get the best out of their top lots.