Editorial sacred-geometry illustration for Santa Clara SanCup Natural, not a photograph of this coffee or its packaging

Editorial illustration · not a coffee photograph

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Santa Clara SanCup Natural; not a documentary photograph

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🇧🇷Brazil · Campo das Vertentes

Santa Clara SanCup Natural

Roasted by Dark Woods CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsBrazil Campo das Vertentes Arara Natural Honey flavor Vanilla Arabica Single origin Fazenda Santa Clara Paulo Afonso de Resende Dark Woods Coffee

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Brand

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Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇧🇷Brazil

Region

Campo das Vertentes

Town

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Farm / Station

Fazenda Santa Clara

Farmer / Producer

Paulo Afonso de Resende

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Arara

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

Honey, Toasty, Chocolate, Vanilla, Spiced Pear, Creamy, Soft Fruit, Balanced Acidity

Fermentation

A portion of the hand-picked lot underwent 48 hours of mound fermentation before the full lot continued through natural processing; no inoculant or sealed-environment protocol is disclosed.

Drying

The entire lot was naturally dried on asphalt patios, with drying monitored for uniformity and stability.

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

roast levelThe product page prints 3 without defining its roast scale, so it cannot be mapped safely to the site's conventional roast enum.
fermentation protocolThe exact sources do not disclose inoculation, atmosphere control, temperature, or whether the non-mound portion received another pre-drying treatment.
public sentiment ratingNo qualifying independent exact-release tasting review or transparent public rating was located.
original tasting scoreWho Makes the Best Coffee has not documented tasting and scoring this release; the SanCup jury figures remain separately labeled competition results.

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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
Santa Clara SanCup Natural
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
03
The roaster
Dark Woods Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Arara
Documented
05
The farm
Fazenda Santa Clara
Documented
06
The farmer
Paulo Afonso de Resende
Documented
07
The region
Campo das Vertentes
Documented
08
The country
🇧🇷Brazil
Documented

From the producer

Paulo Afonso de Resende produced this Arara natural at Fazenda Santa Clara in Campo das Vertentes, Minas Gerais.

From the roaster

Dark Woods presents this exact Arara natural as the 10th-place coffee in the 2025 SanCup and lists honey, toast, chocolate, vanilla, spiced pear, creamy texture, soft fruit and balanced acidity.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Exact SanCup auction lot S 6012 placed 10th in 2025. The primary lot record reports a jury average of 86.21 and a high score of 89.5; those are competition results, not a Who Makes the Best Coffee score or independent public sentiment.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the exact competition lot

Connected the Dark Woods release to Sancoffee auction lot S 6012 from Paulo Afonso de Resende at Fazenda Santa Clara, confirming Arara, Oliveira in Campo das Vertentes, and 1,100 metres.

Corrected the fermentation scope

The roaster says each batch spent 48 hours in mounds, but the primary auction record says only a portion of the lot did. The profile now uses the narrower primary-source wording.

Recorded the full drying sequence

Specified that the entire lot continued through natural processing and dried on asphalt patios, without adding an inoculant or sealed-environment claim.

Separated competition scores

Recorded the auction jury average of 86.21 and high of 89.5 as competition context only, not as a site tasting score or public-sentiment rating.

What was added?

Exact lot identifier S 6012, 1,100 m elevation, corrected fermentation scope, asphalt-patio drying, and primary jury-score context.

What wasn't added?

No conventional roast category, inoculant claim, Who Makes the Best Coffee tasting score, purchase claim, or public-sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The primary auction record resolves lot-level elevation and process details while keeping competition judging separate from editorial and public ratings.

What you might taste

Dark Woods lists honey, toast, chocolate, vanilla, spiced pear, creamy texture, soft fruit, and balanced acidity.

Sources for these process claims

· https://darkwoodscoffee.co.uk/products/brazil-santa-clara-sancup-natural
· https://sancoffee.v-auction.com/en/lots/fazenda-santa-clara

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 2026-11-09) 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

The exact roaster page and primary SanCup auction record establish product and competition facts but are not independent public-sentiment sources. The jury scores are retained only as labeled competition context.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Fazenda Santa Clara →Meet the farmer: Paulo Afonso de Resende →

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