Luciano Vicente
Combine candy sweetness, white grape, and brown sugar to create a deliciously rich, every day drinking coffee.
Luciano’s father, Antonio Vicente, came to the mountainous coffee farming town Caconde in São Paulo, when he was fifteen years old. He got married and bought a piece of land up the mountain, called Vila Vicente, where he built his house and started cultivating coffee. Here is where Luciano and his seven siblings were born and raised, surrounded by coffee trees.
When Luciano inherited three hectares of his fathers’ land, he struggled to continue with the coffee plantation (which still was treated as a commodity) and with help from his neighbor, João Hamilton, he started producing specialty coffee in 2014. ‘João told me about FAF’s project, about taking care of the land and revitalizing the soil,
decreasing insecticides and picking and drying at more ripe levels. He also said that my land had good altitude and that I could produce high quality coffees here.
With enthusiasm and deep passion for his coffee fields, Luciano is taking care of the land and being part of the FAFCoffees agronomist project, he focuses on increasing quality and sustainable farm management.
Quick Facts
Country/Region: Brazil / Caconde, Sao Paulo
Farmer: Luciano Vicente
Cultivar: Yellow Obata
Altitude: 1200-1345m
Processing: Natural