Fazenda Aracaçu
Carmen Lúcia Chaves de Brito, or ‘Ucha’, is a third generation coffee producer, who since taking over her family’s coffee farms at Fazendas Caxambu and Aracaçu has developed them to focus on producing award-winning specialty coffee and improving the farms’ environmental footprint.
“I was born and grew up on the farm, and lived here until I was 16 years old. That’s when I moved to Rio de Janeiro to study and built a career as an academic. After a long time, I left the beach to return to the countryside, getting back to the farm so that, together with my brothers and sister, I could carry on the legacy that our parents had left us. I didn’t want their life story and all their efforts to be in vain, and I made a point of taking over the farm’s management.”
Carmen Lúcia Chaves de Brito
Bourbon
Anaerobic
Três Pontas - South of Minas
98 Hectares
970 - 1200 m
When Ucha moved home and took over the management of the farms she proposed a new direction for the family business, and with her brothers and sister they set the farm on the path of producing specialty coffee.
Fazenda Aracaçu is the smaller of the two properties with almost 98 hectares under coffee production; both farms have a combined cultivated area of 214 hectares, with 104 hectares of protected land, home to 110,000 trees. Their combined annual production is 4,500 bags of coffee, and they raise ten different varieties as well as growing 93 different varieties in their “experimental field” as part of research projects into coffee plant genetics and new agricultural practices. They are a larger producer than we normally work with, but that scale offers a greater volume and volume consistency.
Ucha has invested heavily in her team’s education and development, an on-site coffee-tasting lab, and in sustainability. This dedication has paid off in many ways, not least of which the farm’s head of Quality Control, Dionatan Almeida, grew up on the farm (his parents both worked there), and having worked across all aspects of coffee production he entered and won the 2024 World Cup Tasters Championship – the first Brazilian to do so.
In 2025 Fazendas Caxambu and Aracaçu won first place in the Natural category and received the Presidential Coffee title for a coffee scoring above 90.
This year we have an anaerobic processed Bourbon from Fazenda Aracaçu, and are looking to partner with Ucha and her team again for the 2026 harvest.
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April 2026
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