TorrefactoryTorrefactory · Mont-Saint-Guibert
Café Brésil
Brazil
€8.65 / 250 g€34.60/kgView
Farm · Estate
Rio Brilhante.
The Urban family's Cerrado farm near Patos de Minas — bought in the nineteen-eighties, named for a shining river, and turned into a traceable origin brand.
Cerrado Mineiro, Brazil · tracking 5 coffees from 5 roasters, listed at our last check
Rio Brilhante in numbers
- Coffees listed now
- 5
- Roasters sourcing
- 5
- Countries buying
- 4
- Leading process
- Natural
- Listed altitude
- 900–1,150 m
Coffees from this farm.
Listed by their roasters as coming from this farm.
Geometry CoffeeGeometry Coffee · TuamFrutado | Brazil
Brazil · Natural
€13.95 / 250 g€55.80/kgView
Parcel TorrefactionBRA-001 | Rio Brilhante Frutado
Brazil · Natural
€14.00 / 250 g€56.00/kgView
The Good Coffee CartelThe Good Coffee Cartel · GlasgowBrazil, Rio Brilhante
Brazil · Natural
≈ €10.51 / 200 g€52.54/kgView
Coffee.ieCoffee.ie · TuamFrutado | Brazil
Brazil · Natural
€13.95 / 250 g€55.80/kgView
Who roasts it.
Where it is.
Provisional farm point from the cited sourcea point on the property, not a boundary
Growing conditions.
Warm days around 26°, cool nights near 17°, and a wet season from October to March.
Swipe the chart sideways to see all months, or open the values below.
View monthly climate values
| Month | Rain (mm) | Low / mean / high (°C) |
|---|---|---|
| Jan | 223.4 | 18.7 / 22 / 26.4 |
| Feb | 228.4 | 18.6 / 21.7 / 25.9 |
| Mar | 130.3 | 18.5 / 21.8 / 26 |
| Apr | 59.4 | 17.8 / 21.3 / 25.5 |
| May | 24.3 | 15.5 / 19.4 / 24.2 |
| Jun | 3 | 14.6 / 18.6 / 23.9 |
| Jul | 0.9 | 14.1 / 18.6 / 24.2 |
| Aug | 6 | 15.4 / 20.3 / 25.8 |
| Sep | 24.6 | 17.9 / 23.1 / 28.5 |
| Oct | 122.8 | 19 / 23.2 / 28.1 |
| Nov | 203.4 | 18.3 / 21.7 / 26.2 |
| Dec | 236.4 | 18.5 / 21.8 / 26.4 |
- Monthly rainfall
- Between the day's high and the night's low
- Average
- Wettest month December
- Annual rain ~1,263 mm
- Roasters list lots from 900–1,150 m
- Climate zone Temperate, dry winter, hot summer
Estimated historical climate conditions for the area around this farm.
Source: Europe's Copernicus climate service, averaged over 2015–2024 for the area around the farm. Not live weather, and not measured at the farm itself.
Terrain & surroundings.
Elevation at the point
≈1,080 mMeasured from Europe's Copernicus satellite elevation maps. The roasters list lots from 900–1,150 m. Satellite readings include the tree tops, so treat this as approximate.
Land around the farm
- Shrubland 46%
- Tree cover 20%
- Grassland 16%
- Cropland 10%
- Bare / sparse vegetation 8%
- Permanent water bodies 1%
- Built-up 1%
What surrounds the farm, seen from space in a satellite land survey from 2021. Most of it reads as shrubland — that is the landscape this coffee grows in.
The soil beneath
acidic (pH 5.3) · very high in organic matter (38.5 g/kg organic carbon in the topsoil) · clay loam — 35% clay, 44% sand, 21% silt
From the global soil survey — a reading of the ground around the farm point, not a sample taken on it.
Climate zone
Temperate, dry winter, hot summerThe climate classification for this part of the world — the broad weather pattern the farm sits inside.
Questions people ask.
What makes Rio Brilhante distinctive?
It is the origin brand of Grupo Farroupilha, a family company that has grown coffee in the Cerrado for decades. Inacio Urban came to Minas in the nineteen-seventies, bought the farm in the nineteen-eighties, and the family later put its name on the coffee itself rather than selling it anonymously into the market.
Where exactly does it grow?
In the Pântano micro-region of the Cerrado Mineiro, near Patos de Minas — high, open plateau country with dry winters that suit consistent natural processing. The farm holds Rainforest Alliance certification.
How high does this coffee grow?
Satellite mapping measures roughly 1,080 m at the farm's mapped point, on the Cerrado plateau. Coffee plots often sit higher up a property than its gate, so treat the roaster's own listing as the guide for any specific lot.
Does this mean the coffee was grown here?
Each roaster names the farm on its own listing, and that is exactly what we show — the roaster's claim about where the coffee comes from, attributed to them.
Where can I buy its coffees in Europe?
Right now 5 roasters in 4 countries list coffees from this farm — each card above links to the roaster's own shop.
Where does Daily Roast get this information?
From the roasters' own listings, the farm's public materials, and Europe's Copernicus Earth-observation programme. We only publish what we can check — and we say so when something is an estimate.
Sources for the map and environment
These sources describe the mapped point and the datasets used for the estimates above. They do not establish the growing location of every coffee lot.
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) / ECMWF, sis-agrometeorological-indicators-timeseries AgERA5-v2.0 (Licence to use Copernicus Products (CC-BY)) · produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved · European Space Agency (ESA WorldCover consortium), esa-worldcover v200/2021 (CC BY 4.0) · ISRIC - World Soil Information, soilgrids v2.0 (CC BY 4.0) · Beck et al. 2023 (published via figshare), koppen-geiger-1km 1991_2020 present-day, 0.01 degree (CC BY 4.0)