The highest-scoring coffee in El Salvador’s 2026 Cup of Excellence is a Honey-processed Bernardina from Finca La Esperanza, which earned 91.95 points and sold at the competition’s July 2 auction. It topped a field of 108 submissions, and it’s the first time Bernardina, a rare variety discovered on a Pacas family farm in 2008, has led the country’s Cup of Excellence lineup after placing third in 2019.
Tag: Cup of Excellence
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Los Alpes Natural Geisha Wins Nicaragua 2026 Cup of Excellence at 92 Points
The highest-scoring coffee in Nicaragua’s 2026 Cup of Excellence is a Natural Geisha from Los Alpes farm, which earned 92.00 points and sold at auction for $140 a pound. It is the third time the farm has taken first place in the country’s natural category, having also won in 2023 and 2024.
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Cup of Excellence Nicaragua 2026: Two Geisha Lots Lead the Field — Auction Opens June 25
Nicaragua’s 2026 Cup of Excellence results are in, and the story at the top is straightforward: Geisha varieties swept both category winners from 29 competing lots.
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Kalibús la Sierra
Australian roaster @LnDCoffeeTrade picked up the @cupofexcellence Guatemalan winner back in June.
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Monte Llano Bonito
@MARUYAMA_COFFEE was an auction winner of this years first place Costa Rica @cupofexcellence. @sprudge wrote a good article about them http://ow.ly/wXnH305FGyh.
