Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Rio Brilhante Icatu Natural, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Rio Brilhante Icatu Natural; not a documentary photograph

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🇧🇷Brazil · Cerrado Mineiro

Rio Brilhante Icatu Natural

Roasted by Rogue Wave Coffee RoastersRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsBrazil Cerrado Mineiro Icatu Natural Almond Arabica Single origin Fazenda Rio Brilhante Inácio Urban Rogue Wave Coffee Roasters

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Brand

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Roaster website

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Country

🇧🇷Brazil

Region

Cerrado Mineiro

Town

Coromandel

Farm / Station

Fazenda Rio Brilhante

Farmer / Producer

Inácio Urban

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Icatu

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

Almond, Pear, Tangerine, Chocolate

Fermentation

The exact release does not disclose a fermentation duration, vessel, or atmosphere.

Drying

Natural process; the exact lot’s drying surface and duration are not disclosed.

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

gradeThe exact release sources do not publish a formal green-coffee grade or lot score.
altitude mRogue Wave publishes a 900–1,150-metre range rather than one exact elevation; no midpoint is stored as a fact.
fermentationThe exact release does not disclose a fermentation duration, vessel, or atmosphere.
drying methodNatural processing is identified, but the exact lot's drying surface and duration are not disclosed.
roast levelRogue Wave publishes brew uses but not a conventional light-to-dark roast label.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

01
The name on the bag
Rio Brilhante Icatu Natural
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
03
The roaster
Rogue Wave Coffee Roasters
Documented
04
The variety
Icatu
Documented
05
The farm
Fazenda Rio Brilhante
Documented
06
The farmer
Inácio Urban
Documented
07
The region
Cerrado Mineiro
Documented
08
The country
🇧🇷Brazil
Documented

From the producer

Inácio Urban founded Fazenda Rio Brilhante, and the Urban family continues to run the estate. Rogue Wave’s release panel lists Los Volcanes, which supports the farm’s agronomic and processing work; this profile preserves the existing Inácio Urban relationship rather than treating the partner as the farm owner.

From the roaster

Icatu is a Brazilian cultivar developed by the Instituto Agronomico de Campinas and released commercially in 1993, bred for productivity and disease resistance while improving cup quality over generations of backcrossing to Arabica.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Rogue Wave presents this as a single-variety 2026 Icatu lot from Fazenda Rio Brilhante in Pântano, Minas Gerais. The natural-process coffee is listed at 900–1,150 metres with almond, pear, tangerine and chocolate notes.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Select cherry

Rogue Wave says harvested cherry is density-sorted so denser fruit can receive more detailed processing.

Natural process

The exact Icatu release is identified as natural; lot-specific drying duration and surface are not disclosed.

What was added?

Nothing disclosed

What wasn't added?

No fruit, flavoring, spice, or inoculant is disclosed.

Why it matters

Presenting Icatu as a traceable single-variety lot makes it possible to evaluate a cultivar that usually sits behind the scenes in Brazilian production.

What you might taste

Almond, pear, tangerine, and chocolate, according to Rogue Wave.

Sources for these process claims

· https://roguewavecoffee.ca/products/brazil-rio-brilhante-icatu-natural

Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-15) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Toque's 'Top 1%' label is a catalog classification without a transparent exact-coffee review count, and Cherrybook's index is not a cup score. Both were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Fazenda Rio Brilhante →Meet the farmer: Inácio Urban →

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

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