Brazil Fazenda Barrinha arrives at the Mayfair roastery
Ted Mahoney, Head of Coffee at HR Higgins, has returned from Brazil with the season's fresh crop. The arrival stirs family memory and a new release of exceptional beans.
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Ted Mahoney stood at the Brazilian port and watched the season’s fresh crop of Brazil Fazenda Barrinha loaded into its container, bound for the roastery in Mayfair. The journey itself became a thread connecting past and present: his presence there drew out a story from David Higgins, the founder, whose father Tony had witnessed a coffee shipment from Tanzania arrive decades earlier. Those moments, separated by time and continents, both carried the same quiet ceremony of arrival that marks the beginning of something worth knowing.
The beans themselves speak with clarity. Notes of milk chocolate and cashew emerge from the cup, a softness that belongs to this particular crop and this particular place. HR Higgins has worked with Brazilian coffee long enough to understand the variations that matter: the altitude, the processing, the hands that brought the fruit to the mill. Fazenda Barrinha carries all of that into the roastery.
The fresh crop is now available at HR Higgins in Mayfair. Those drawn to Brazilian coffee with uncommon depth will find it ready to taste.
Imagery courtesy of HR Higgins (@hrhiggins).