Close view of dark, glossy medium-dark roasted beans

A cafetière of coffee next to a white cup on a wooden table

Mantiqueira de Minas, Brazil

Sítio Bela Vista

4.9 · 1,284 reviews

Roasted hazelnut
Dark chocolate
Brown sugar

Sweet, heavy and forgiving. The darkest coffee we make, stopped well short of oily — made for cafetières and moka pots.

250 g bag

£10.90

£9.27 on subscription

1 kg bag

£37.00

£31.45 on subscription

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Roasted Tuesday and Thursday · posted the same afternoon

How we brew it

Cafetière: 32 g coffee to 500 ml water, coarse, 4 minutes
Moka pot: Fill the basket level, fine-medium grind, low heat

Where it comes from

Origin: Mantiqueira de Minas, Brazil
Producer: One family, 38 hectares, patio-dried in front of the house
Altitude: 1,180–1,290 m
Variety: Yellow Catuaí
Process: Natural
Roast: Medium-dark
Harvest: Picked June to August, landed in January

Delivery and freshness

Roasted to order and posted by Royal Mail Tracked 48 on the day it leaves the drum. Free on subscriptions and orders over £30, otherwise £3.95. Best from five days to six weeks after the roast date on the bag.

Why we buy Sítio Bela Vista

The darkest thing we make: 211 °C, two minutes and twenty seconds after first crack and not a second more. We stop well short of second crack on purpose — the oils that come out there go stale in a fortnight.

What you get is sweet and heavy, with hazelnut and dark chocolate and none of the bitterness people expect from a dark roast.

This is the coffee for a cafetière, a moka pot, or anyone who drinks their coffee with milk and wants it to taste of coffee.