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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]