After an absence in 2016, Burundi has returned to the Cup of Excellence program with winning lots auctioned on 18 October, achieving an average price of US$9.19 per pound. All 23 winning lots [...]
2017 Colombia Cup of Excellence Returns to Great Auction Success (Portland, Oregon November 10th) The last Cup of Excellence in Colombia was in 2015 and this year’s return in September not only [...]
I recently took the opportunity to interview Javier Montel Valencia, a coffee producer in Mexico whose coffee placed 12th in the 2017 Mexico Cup of Excellence (COE), where Jen Apodaca and Alex [...]
The Cup of Excellence coffee competition and auction program continues to deliver record-high prices to producers this season, with a split lot of a winning coffee at last week’s Honduras CoE [...]
Peru is arguably specialty coffee’s best-kept secret. Despite producing some of the planet’s most mouthwateringly delicious coffees, outside of a small subsection of the industry it rarely [...]
