Brazil is largely known as the biggest producer of Arabica coffee in the world, for its Amazon rainforest, and its proud history as a football nation. Some 16,000 kilometres of South Pacific Ocean may separate the exotic country from the Australian mainland, but there’s long been a unique bond between the two coffee loving nations.
According to the Brazilian Coffee Exports Council (Cecafé), in 2020 Australia imported 24 per cent — the highest amount — of its green coffee from Brazil.
To appreciate the relationship, one needs to go back to the beginning of Brazil’s coffee production in 1727 when Brazilian Sergeant Franciso de Mello Palheta was sent to French Guiana to settle land disputes, or in some stories, sent on a mission to smuggle this bean out of the region. In the end, he was gifted the precious bean
