Barão de Cotegipe Composto
Yerba mate blended with herbs · Brazil
- Brand
- Barão de Cotegipe
- Variety
- Composto
- Type
- Blended with herbs
- Country
- Brazil
- Company
- Barão Comércio e Indústria de Erva Mate Ltda.
- Founded
- 1951
- Bitterness
- 1.9/5
- Yield
- 1.9/5
Pairing
Country biscuits, cheesebooks, fresh fruit.
Background
Founded by the marriage Etelvino and Ilma Picolus, that at the beginning of the 50's began production of reva-mate crafts at Volta Grande (then part of Erechim). He pioneered with the first industrial rotary dryer for erva-mate (1979) and today also production tias, mate toasted and tereré, with a subsidiary at Machadinho and export about 40% of its production to about 15 countries.