Cup of Excellence

The Cup of Excellence is an annual competition held in several countries to identify the highest quality coffees produced. It is organised by the Alliance for Coffee Excellence, which was founded by George Howell and Susie Spindler.[1] The winning coffees are sold in internet auctions.[2] The concept was developed by the Gourmet Coffee Project of the International Coffee Organization (ICO). This project was devised by Pablo Dubois, Head of Operations of the ICO and Frans Bolvenkel, of the International Trade Centre (ITC) at a meeting in Geneva in late 1994. This project, supervised by the ICO, managed by the ITC and largely financed by the Common Fund for Commodities, ran from 1995 to 2000, and aimed to develop methodologies for the creation of new "gourmet" or high-quality speciality coffees.[3] The Cup of Excellence competition has been dubbed as the 'Oscars of the coffee world'.[4]

The competitions began in 1999.[2] By 2013 they were held in Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Burundi, Rwanda, Colombia and Bolivia.[5] In the course of the competition each coffee is tested at least five times. Only those coffees that get high scores continuously move forward in the competition. The final winners are awarded the Cup of Excellence and sold via an internet auction to the highest bidder. [6]

See also

Coffee portal

References

  1. ↑ Deirdre Mayer Dougherty (2008). "A Sense of Taste with a Sense of Place": Coffee Identities Across the United States and El Salvador. ProQuest. pp. 68–. ISBN 978-0-549-73594-6. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Benoit Daviron; Stefano Ponte (20 February 2006). The Coffee Paradox: Global Markets, Commodity Trade and the Elusive Promise of Development. Zed Books. pp. 157–. ISBN 978-1-84277-457-1. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Pablo Dubois - Funding of commodity development projects with special reference to coffee. Chapter 10 in.Erik Chrispeels (ed} - International commodity organisations in transition. London, Cameron May, 2002. pp 121-131.
  4. ↑ Barnett, Andrew (2011-02-14). "The cup of excellence: The Oscars of the coffee world". seattlepi.com. Retrieved 2012-11-14.
  5. ↑ "Countries". Cup of Excellence. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  6. ↑ "What is Cup of Excellence?". Cup of Excellence. Retrieved 2013-11-05.

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