{"id":151344,"date":"2025-09-03T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mareterracoffee.com\/blog\/preopen-de-cata-brasil-2025-santos-festival\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:05:59","slug":"preopen-de-cata-brasil-2025-santos-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mareterracoffee.com\/en\/blog\/preopen-de-cata-brasil-2025-santos-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre Open de Cata – Brazil 2025: A Meeting of the Best Tasters in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Pre Open de Cata – Brazil<\/strong> was held for the first time in a Producer country in July 2025, during the Santos Coffee Festival<\/strong>, on July 11 and 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

This event brought together cuppers from all over Brazil, who had the opportunity – in many cases for the first time – to participate in a cupping with international coffees, beyond the usual Brazilian origins.<\/p>\n\n

During the event, microlots from six Producer countries<\/strong> were tasted: Rwanda, Kenya, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.<\/p>\n\n

In the sensory memory classification round<\/strong>, participants tasted two coffees from each origin<\/strong>, all belonging to the same Variety<\/strong>, which significantly increased the level of difficulty in identifying the Profiles.<\/p>\n\n

For the sensory memory of the semifinal, the coffees from El Salvador<\/strong> and Honduras<\/strong> surprised for their complexity and freshness, all of them of anaerobic fermentation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n

And finally, in the final<\/strong>, coffees from Guatemala<\/strong> were chosen, with exclusive Processes created by Mare Terra Coffee.<\/p>\n\n

After intense tastings, the finalists were:<\/p>\n\n

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