Cup of Excellence
Jul. 14 | Whatta Guatemala!
Auction results are in from today’s Guatemala COE bidding, and the indomitable Finca El Injierto have once again taken top honors. Their 100% Pacamara crop has topped COE tables in 4 out of the last 5 years. This year’s high bid went for $28.00, to South Korea’s C & C, Ltd. This is up from the $22.04 El Injierto garnered in 2009, but still a significant drop from the all-time auction high of $80.20/pound, paid...
Jul. 7 | The 2010 Honduras Cup of Excellence Auction set a record for the country’s program with #1 placing coffee “Don Amado”. The lot sold for a record of $22.05/lb, nearly doubling the second most expensive lot. Time’s Club for C-COOP took home “the Don”, along with major Asian auction players Hisashi Yamamoto (Unir Cofee) and Coffee Libre (S. Korea). This year’s auction also garnered the highest average price in...
Jun. 9 |
Biddin' war.
Check out the action at the Official COE Website.
The Cup of Excellence is a strict competition that selects the very best coffee produced in that country for that particular year . These winning coffees are chosen by a select group of national and international cuppers and are cupped at least five different times during the competition process. The final winners are awarded the prestigious Cup of Excellence® and sold to the...
May. 22 | Google Map
Congratulations to Juan Amado Fernandez! His Finca Don Amado, Pacas scored 91.15 points, highest scoring farm in this year’s Honduras Cup of Excellence! The online auction will be held July 7, 2010.
Honduras has been involved with Cup of Excellence since 2004. The highest price paid for a Cup of Excellence Honduran coffee is $18.70 per pound, in 2007.
More information on the Honduras Cup of Excellence Program here.
May. 19 | Look at this panel.
Congratulations to Julia Margarita Martinez Molina of Apaneca-Ilamatepec for scoring highest in the 2010 El Salvador Cup of Excellence! Finca Suiza scored 91.05 by a panel of international jurists. Check out the list of 2010 winners here.
According to the official web site, the COE El Salvador auction will be held on June 17, 2010. Can’t wait!
While we’re on the subject, Sprudge would like to point out that the Coffeed...
May. 17 | Not much is known about Costa Rica’s 2010 absence from the COE line-up. If you have any tips, insight, or info you’d like to pass along to Sprudge, please contact us as soon as plausible.
But the good news? Rwanda is back!
Pre-Screening: Jul 19 to 23, 2010
National Competition: Aug 16 to 20, 2010
International Competition: Aug 23 to 27, 2010
Live Online Auction: Oct 12, 2010
Head Judge: Paul Songer
Find COE schedules for all participating...
Jan. 20 | The Cup Of Excellence 2009 Brazil auction took place yesterday, and the results are available at the COE website. This year’s event was dominated by buyers from Japan, Taiwan and Korea who paid considerably higher prices for this year’s top lot ($24.05) then was paid for last year’s winner ($9.05).
Some more information on this year’s top farm, Fazenda Ouro Verde:
Fazenda Ouro Verde was acquired at the end of the 1980s by the...
Jan. 18 | Follow Brazil’s hotly contested COE Auction through the Cup Of Excellence website, where you can also find recent results from COE auctions around the world. For those of you unfamiliar with the Cup of Excellence auction process, you can learn more by viewing this FABULOUS scene from the otherwise regrettable “Sex In The City” movie. Geoff Watts of Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea plays the role of Samatha Jones, while the infamous...
