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Cup of Excellence

Nicaragua 2020

Award-winning lots: 18, plus 12 national winners
Organised by: Alliance for Coffee Excellence

Results 18 lots · 17 farms

Rank	Note	Farm	Producer	Variety	Process	Region	Auction $/lb	Buyer
17th	87.00	Agua Sarca		Maracaturra	Washed	Nicaragua	8.60	Wataru & Co., Ltd.
10th	88.00	El Cambalache	Abner Samuel Zavala / Indira Paola Zavala	Maracaturra	Honey	Nicaragua	11.60	Dimattina Coffee
6th	88.60	Las Ortencias	Ana María Albir	Catuaí Rojo	Washed	Nicaragua	10.20	Wataru & Co., Ltd.
2nd	89.70	LA ORQUIDEA	Arjen Roersma	Maracaturra	Washed	Nicaragua	11.00	Bokkum, GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD Bokkum Coffee Roasters & GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD
13th	87.50	CECOCAFEN – El Encanto	CECOCAFEN	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	8.20	Wataru & Co., Ltd.
5th	88.80	El Esfuerzo	Ernesto José Estrada Flores	Maracaturra	Washed	Nicaragua	10.00	Sarutahiko Coffee Inc.
9th	88.10	Buena Vista	Germán Odorico Cortéz	Parainema	Washed	Nicaragua	10.11	Coffee lab, Upstream Coffee Imports Pty Ltd UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD / WB.coffee / Amsterdam Coffee Lab
14th	87.50	Koa	José Angel Ortez Urbina	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	9.30	Orsir Coffee Orsir Coffee Co., Ltd.
1a	91.20	Un Regalo de Dios	Luís Alberto Balladarez Moncada	Maracaturra	Natural	Nicaragua	36.90	Maruyama Coffee, Cometeer, Good Boy Bob, Sugi Coffee Roasting, HARRODS Maruyama Coffee, Cometeer, Goodboybob Coffee, Sugi Coffee Roasting, Harrods
1b	91.20	Un Regalo de Dios	Luís Alberto Balladarez Moncada	Maracaturra	Natural	Nicaragua	30.30	TAKAMURA COFFEE ROASTERS
3rd	89.40	OJO DE AGUA	Luis Emilio Valladarez	Maracaturra	Washed	Nicaragua	20.20	Terarosa Terarosa (Haksan Co. Ltd)
12th	87.70	Buenos Aires	Luís Emilio Valladarez	Maracaturra	Natural	Nicaragua	12.20	ECOM Japan Ecom Japan Limited
8th	88.40	Turriabla	Macario Alejandrino Medina Rodriguez	Parainema	Washed	Nicaragua	9.10	Wataru & Co., Ltd.
4th	88.90	Santa Gema	Mario José Vilchez Urbina	Maracaturra	Washed	Nicaragua	10.50	EL CAFE coffee roasters, Coffee Libre, Coffee Montage, Vincent van coffee, 304 roasters, FEBRUARY ROASTERS, delmoondo coffee
16th	87.30	La Betania	Martha Lucia Albir	Maracaturra	Washed	Nicaragua	9.00	Latorre&Dutch, M2M Coffee Roasters M2M Coffee Roasters / Latorre & Dutch Coffee
11th	87.90	El Palmar	Reynaldo Leonel Ortez Ortez	Catimor	Washed	Nicaragua	8.60	Wataru & Co., Ltd.
15th	87.40	Santa Rosa	Rolando Castillo Flores	Villa Sarchi	Natural	Nicaragua	10.30	Rehm & Co. / Benecke Coffee GmbH & Rehm & Co. / Benecke Coffee GmbH & Co.
7th	88.40	Fátima	Tania Gabriela Ferrufino Norori	H3		Nicaragua	10.30	Kaffebrenneriet as

National winners 12 lots · they scored between 85 and 87 and did not make the top ten of their category

Results

Rank	Note	Farm	Producer	Variety	Process	Region	Auction $/lb	Buyer
	86.70	La Naranja	Darling Noelia Herrera Torres	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	5.05	Urth Caffe
	86.80	El Polanco	Douglas Ramón Padilla González	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	5.95	Urth Caffe
	85.90	El Escambray	Francisca Lucia Gutiérrez López		Honey	Nicaragua	3.95	cafe DAZAC, Eungubiro Roasters, Crema Costa
	85.70	El Bosque	Jairo José Gurdián Zeledón	Catimor	Washed	Nicaragua	3.75	Bokkum, GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD Bokkum Coffee Roasters & GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD
	85.80	Guantales	Jorge Armando Gutiérrez González	Catuaí	Washed	Nicaragua	3.95	Orsir Coffee Orsir Coffee(Taiwan)
	85.80	La Fortuna	Jorge Yoelsin Lanuza Cruz	Catimor	Washed	Nicaragua	3.85	Orsir Coffee Orsir Coffee(Taiwan)
	85.90	Isidoro	Jose Alcides Castillo Gonzalez	Catimor	Washed	Nicaragua	3.75	Bokkum, Gil-coffee Bokkum Coffee Roasters & GIL-COFFEE
	85.00	El Zapote	Manuel de Jesús Herrera Alfaro	Catimor	Washed	Nicaragua	3.75	Bokkum, GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD Bokkum Coffee Roasters & GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD
	86.30	El Triángulo	Nolan Hamilton González Ramos	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	4.15	Urth Caffe
	86.40	El Escambray	UCA SOPPEXCCA	Caturra	Natural	Nicaragua	4.05	Coffee Roasters Alliance of Korea
	85.30	Media Luna	Virginia Guido Romero	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	3.85	NAGAHAMA COFFEE Inc.
	85.70	El Areno y El Marañón	Wilder Raúl González Ramos	Caturra	Washed	Nicaragua	3.75	Bokkum, GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD Bokkum Coffee Roasters & GIL-COFFEE with UPSTREAM COFFEE IMPORTS PTY LTD

Source: allianceforcoffeeexcellence.org/nicaragua-2020, read on September 18, 2026. The restricted-access data on that page is not collected.