250 Coffee Samples Already Submitted For Nicaragua's "Cup of Excellence" Competition

TechnoServe an Organizer and Sponsor of Nicaragua's Second Country-wide Coffee Quality Competition -- April 4 Is Submission Deadline

(CSRwire) NORWALK, CT- Two-hundred-and-fifty coffee samples from small and medium-scale farms and large estates throughout Nicaragua have already been submitted for the upcoming "Cup of Excellence®," the second-ever countrywide coffee competition to be held here, according to Ernest van Panhuys, Country Director of TechnoServe/Nicaragua, one of the event's organizers. Event organizers anticipate that more than 350 samples will be submitted by the Friday, April 4 deadline (5 PM local time).

Previously held in Brazil, Guatemala and Nicaragua, the Cup of Excellence® is a country-wide event designed to identify and promote the host country's best coffees through a series of blind tastings, called "cuppings," that are conducted by national and international judges and that evaluate every detail, from body and acidity to flavor and balance. Nicaraguan coffee growers of all sizes and from all regions have been invited to submit samples for the 2003 Cup of Excellence®.

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