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Article: Santos is one thing, Minas another. (Brazilian coffee)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Traditionally the coffees called "Santos" have included just about every bean to come out of Brazil. But Brazil is a big place, and just because a sack of coffee happens to pass through the port of Santos, in the state of Sao Paulo, it isn't necessarily anything like all the other sacks. The only thing they have in common, really, is Portuguese, but what's language to a bean?
It would be hard to count or even identify all the distinctly different coffees grown in the world's fifth-largest country and largest producer of coffee. The number of coffees would be in the dozens, compared to merely two in Colombia. But while Colombia touts its Excelsio and Colombian ...