ROUTE SPECIAL COFFEE - São Lourenço - MG

Super cool ride! Our guide was Pedro, dear good people! I don't even like coffee, but the landscapes are beautiful, it was very interesting to know about the whole process of special coffee and still enjoy it at the end. Definitely the best coffee I've ever had in my life! Haha super recommend the tour!!!

I loved the experience and will recommend it to all my friends and family who enjoy coffee. Punctuality, information, tasting and experience. Excellent cost-benefit. Super Indicate!

Great I went through the coffee farms, I recommend everyone to do. Our guide was Gabriel, he does a great job, he gives us another view of coffee production and its real value. Both Gabriel and everyone at Uniq are to be congratulated for the work. At the end of the tour, besides a good coffee, there is a table with the good cheese bread and the cornmeal cake.

The tour is a great example of how experience tourism can be enriching and generate unique memories. For coffee lovers, it is a must-see tour to know everything from planting to roasting. Those who guided us all the time understood much of all aspects of coffee and answered all questions from the group promptly. I discovered numerous new things on the subject and brought it home and to life. The roasting visit is also as instructive as, as are all the explanations and taste experience that is promoted between traditional and specialty coffee. The table they make available for the tasting is rich and delicious! The only point I would criticize is the state of the bus used for the ride. On a hot afternoon it gets very hot, and there is a lot of smoke from the exhaust. To be perfect I would suggest changing the transport for one with more comfort. Strongly recommend taking the route! Impossible to regret it.

We took the “From Foot to Cup” tour with the Washington guide and it was an amazing experience, just as we had hoped. On the tour of the farm, we learn about the process of planting, harvesting, pruning, drying and everything that involves the work of a coffee producer. Later, at Unique Cafés, we learned about the roasting process and were able to try different types of specialty coffees, as well as delicious Minas delicacies. Super recommended!

Stressful and uncomfortable ride. I DO NOT recommend and I will present the reasons step by step. The idea sold in the tour proposal is very different from the reality found in practice, do not create false expectations. Let's go from the beginning. This marked by disorganization, lack of punctuality and comfort. They sent a message on my whatsapp informing that the meeting point would be at the fountain on a certain street in the center of São Lourenço, without further information. Something that would be simple for those who live in the city, however, inappropriate to expect someone from another state to know. To make matters worse, there was NO more the blessed fountain, which was under construction. In other words, you walked the entire street, which wasn't small, from one end to the other and didn't find the fountain. You, who are on vacation, will be made a clown by the city company that didn't bother to give the street number or check if the fountain still exists. With luck, the townspeople knew where the meeting place was and explained it to me. The company was late to arrive a little over 10min. The mini van arrived and it was a real matchbox, just two windows in the front and the rest all closed. It had NO ventilation and much less air conditioning. A heat from hell!!! And, on top, with maximum capacity. Imagine, cramped benches, one person leaning against each other, everyone sweating, with no windows to open. If it was hot enough for those who sat in the front, where there were two small windows, it was hell in the back. It took approximately 15-20min more until we left the place. I regret getting in the van so early. There, it became clear to me that it was a trap. EXPENSIVE trap this author fell into, but you can avoid it. The Unique company does not take seriously the experience it sells as fabulous and splendid. As if the discomfort imposed on passengers were not enough, the coffee specialist, responsible for explaining everything on the tour from the plantation to the roasting plant, was a 19-year-old intern without any specialization or courses in the coffee world, with 04 months in the job. Although full of goodwill and sympathy, his knowledge did not go beyond the surface of the coffee world. In the mini van with the strong sun and unbearable heat, we walked along a totally uneven road on a 95 hectare plot, the low speed made the heat worse, as there was no wind. We didn't walk on foot, but we got out of the car a few times and glimpsed beautiful landscapes of hills and coffee plantations, one of the only two positive parts of the tour, the second I'll talk about later. Then, back in the Mini Van's oven, we went to the Unique store. There were two roasting machines, a roasting specialist (master) gave a very nice brief presentation of the process, this was the second and last positive part. Next to the roasting machines, a small buffet of delicacies was prepared, with some coffee experiments in disposable cups. And even though there is a beautiful cafeteria full of empty tables and chairs in the space next door, two steps away from us!!! Even so, we were effectively forced to eat standing up. That's when the difference used by Unique between the people who were on the tour and those who were consuming at the cafeteria became clear. As if they were differentiating us - eating and drinking standing - from the customer drinking his sophisticated coffee in thin wine glasses sitting at his comfortable table, while watching us, cheap entertainment. In short, if you want, drive straight to the Unique store, try the coffee and ask about roasting. Probably, there are great chances of witnessing the roasting process, since there are only two machines centralized there to do this. You save your money and will have a much more comfortable and dignified experience. The cafes have a cost equivalent to the splendor that appears in the advertisement for the tour. I am no expert and have no intention of judging the quality of the coffee.

Excellent visit to the Sito da Torre farm and the entire coffee process. Our guide was Gustavo, who is from the family that owns the site and he assisted us very well, telling us all about their work.