Brazil + Colombia — Love Letter Blend

Tastes Like — 🍓 Chocolate-Covered Strawberries • 🌶️ Cinnamon Hearts • 🍫 Sweet Cocoa

DETAILS

• Component 1: Natural Brazil Catuaí
• Component 2: Co-Ferment Honey Colombia Caturra
• Region: São Paulo, Brazil + Quindío, Colombia
• Varietals: Catuaí + Caturra
• Process: Natural + Co-Ferment Honey
• Altitude: 1100–1650 masl
• Roast Level: Medium
• Size: 250g

INTRO — When Classic Sweetness Meets Experimental Spice

Love Letter is September Coffee's seasonal celebration of blending as an art form. By combining a classic natural Brazil with one of their most distinctive Colombian co-ferments, they've created something that transcends either component alone. The Brazil provides a foundation of deep chocolate sweetness and round body, whilst the experimental Colombian honey process adds bright strawberry notes and warming cinnamon spice.

This is blending done thoughtfully—not to mask defects or achieve consistency across seasons, but to create a flavour profile that couldn't exist any other way. It's a love letter from roaster to drinker, showcasing how careful component selection and precise roasting can produce something truly memorable.

THE COMPONENTS — Two Distinct Coffees, One Harmonious Blend

Brazil — Natural Catuaí from São Paulo

The Brazilian component comes from São Paulo, grown at approximately 1,100 metres above sea level. Catuaí is a cross between the highly productive Mundo Novo and the compact Caturra, developed by Brazil's Instituto Agronomico in 1949. The variety's compact size allows for high-density planting, making it economically attractive to farmers whilst still delivering excellent cup quality when processed carefully.

The natural process—drying the whole cherry with the bean inside—amplifies the coffee's inherent sweetness and develops the chocolate and cocoa notes that form Love Letter's foundation. This is classic Brazilian coffee at its best: sweet, approachable, and deeply satisfying.

Colombia — Co-Ferment Honey Caturra from Quindío

The Colombian component is where Love Letter gets its personality. Grown at 1,650 metres in Quindío, this Caturra lot undergoes an experimental co-fermentation with cinnamon and strawberry before being processed as a honey. The result is unlike any standard Colombian coffee—bright strawberry aromatics meet warming cinnamon spice, creating a profile that's both familiar and surprising.

Caturra, despite yielding 20-30% fewer cherries than Bourbon, is prized for its exceptional cup quality. The variety's clean, complex character provides the perfect canvas for experimental processing, allowing the co-fermentation additions to shine without overwhelming the coffee's fundamental characteristics.

THE BLEND — Balancing Foundation with Flair

September Coffee's approach to this blend prioritises harmony over novelty. The Brazilian natural provides stability—a sweet, chocolatey base that grounds the cup and gives it approachability. The Colombian co-ferment adds excitement—those strawberry and cinnamon notes that make Love Letter distinctive and memorable.

The roast level sits at medium, developed enough to bring out the chocolate depth from the Brazil whilst preserving the bright fruit and spice characteristics from the Colombian component. This balance is crucial: too light, and the blend would lack body and sweetness; too dark, and those delicate strawberry and cinnamon notes would disappear into caramelisation.

THE CUP — Chocolate and Strawberry with a Cinnamon Twist

This is Valentine's Day in a cup—chocolate-covered strawberries with a warming spice finish. The blend delivers exactly what it promises: deep cocoa sweetness from the Brazilian base, bright strawberry notes from the Colombian component, and that distinctive cinnamon character weaving through everything.

Flavour Notes

• 🍓 Chocolate-Covered Strawberries — the marriage of Brazilian chocolate and Colombian strawberry creates this classic combination
• 🌶️ Cinnamon Hearts — warming spice from the co-fermentation adds complexity and intrigue
• 🍫 Sweet Cocoa — deep chocolate sweetness anchors the cup

The body is round and satisfying—the Brazilian component ensures the cup has weight and presence. The finish is delectably sweet, with those cinnamon notes lingering beautifully. This is a coffee that works equally well as a comforting daily drinker or as something special to share. It's approachable enough for anyone to enjoy, yet distinctive enough to keep things interesting cup after cup.

Love Letter proves that blending doesn't mean compromise—when done with intention and care, it means creating something entirely new and genuinely delightful.