Sitio São José and Fazenda Mombuca are located in Bairro Jacú e Mombuca community in the city of Lambari in the Mantiqueira de Minas coffee region of Sul de Minas. Coffee producer Gabriel Lelis Junqueira de Paiva got his start working at a dairy alongside his father. In 1986 he married Ana Maria and with her had three children: Gabriel Lelis Junior, Luiz Paulo, and Kaic.
After some twists and turns in life, the family moved to Sitio São José in 1992, a property loaned to Gabriel by his father-in-law, José Genaro de Paiva, with the plan that his son-in-law would one day make the farm profitable and purchase it.
Gabriel began this challenge by raising dairy cattle and in 1994 planted his first 2,000 coffee trees of the Acaiá variety. By 2007 he had 20,000 coffee trees and was looking to expand, which led to the acquisition of Fazenda Mombuca, which was also given to him by his father in law.
Mombuca is approximately 15 hectares and Ana Maria and her children work the farm intensely. Since 2013, they have been focused on coffee quality and improving the post harvest. These efforts have been influenced by Luiz Paulo, the Q Grader in the family. Since 2017 they have been fermenting coffees to improve the final quality of the beans.