Nicaragua Cup of Excellence 2009 – Winning Farms

The 2009 Nicaragua Cup of Excellence competition completed May 22.  This competition also heralded two major milestones–the 50th Cup of Excellence competition, and the 10th anniversary of the Cup of Excellence.  The stars came out for the international jury, including one of the CoE founders George Howell and Geoff Watts from Intelligentsia, and others whose combined total of CoE juries ranged close to two hundred.  The jury awarded the Cup of Excellence to twenty-six lots, including five lots achieving a CoE Presidential award for scoring higher than 90 points on the final day.  A fine showing for this special event.

Full listing of the winning lots can be found here (in Spanish); I’ve also reproduced them below.  Many thanks to Sarah Allen of Barista Magazine (also a Kick It Up for Coffee Kids contributor) for the regular blog updates and pictures from the event.  Geoff Watts and George Howell also contributed mid-week updates–thank you for taking time out to keep us onlookers informed.

UPDATE:  Cup of Excellence site now has the winning farms posted.

Lot	Farm	Farmer	Score
1	La Esperanza	Maria Amparo Castellano Paguaga	92.75
2	El Recuerdo	Jose Efrain Espinales Bautista	91.83
3	Cima del Cielo	Francisco Noel Zeledon Centeno	90.75
4	La Picona	Olga Marina Gonzalez Cuadra	90.43
5	San Jose	Ruperto Alidio Cornejo Salgado	90.30
6	Santa Maria de Lourdes	Octavio Jose Peralta Paguaga	88.43
7	La Minita	Inversiones Mierisch	88.08
8	La Carolina	Andres Figueroa Lopez	87.68
9	San Antonio	Bernardino Fortin Altamirano	87.38
10	Santa Gema	Mario Jose Vilchez Urbina	86.53
11	Las Limas	Donald Ramon Roque Blandino	86.47
12	Himalaya	Mauricio Arturo Ortez Beltran	86.28
13	Las Colinas	Eugenio de los Angeles Zeledon Vilchez	86.25
14	Buenos Aires	Luis Emilio Valladarez	85.28
15	La Leona	Luis Beltran Cornejo Barreda	85.22
16	Los Planes del Aguila	Bayardo Jose Diaz Garmendia	85.19
17	La Guadalupana	Napoleon Tercero Gomez	84.97
18	Coop. 15 de Septiembre	Aristidez Miranda Blandon	84.86
19	Los Achiote	Estela Marina Mendoza Sanders	84.69
20	Monte Cristo	Jaime Jose Molina Fiallos	84.47
21	El Naranjo Dipilto	Luis Emilio Valladarez	84.44
22	Los Cipreses	Domingo de Jesus Herrera Ruiz	84.25
23	Las Nubes	Noel Antonio Ruiz Ramos	84.19
24	Santa Fatima	Jose Efrain Guillen Portillo	84.19
25	Cofradia	Fabricio de Jesus Zeledon Lopez	84.17
26	Oro Verde	Bismark Pastrana Perez	84.00