PERU – Cafe Típica wins national contest for best specialty coffee

MILAN – Cafe Típica, a coffee produced by Alfredo Yuccra, a member of an Apurimac river valley coffee farmers’ co-op, was the winner of this year’s VI Concurso Nacional de Cafes de Calidad.
 
The competition is organized by the National Coffee Board, the Ministry of Agriculture, Usaid’s Alternative Development Program and the Peruvian Chamber of Coffee and Cacao Bean.
 
After 347 coffee samples from 14 coffee-producing regions were received and evaluated, 111 were qualified for the national stage.
The selection process concluded with a grand finale in which a jury (consisting of five international and five national judges) chose the best Peruvian coffee production of this season.
 
Last year\’s winner Cafe Tunki of Wilson Sucaticona Larico went on to be one of the winners at the Scaa\’s 2010 Roasters Guild Coffees of the Year Competition, organized by the Specialty Coffee Association of America (Scaa) during its 22nd Annual Exposition & Symposium.