Auctions & award programs (12)
- Alliance for Coffee Excellence — The nonprofit that runs the Cup of Excellence competition and auctions across many producing countries.
- Best of Panama — Panama’s annual green-coffee competition and online auction — home of the world’s record coffee prices.
- Best of Panama results archive — The year-by-year record of Best of Panama winners, cupping scores, and auction prices — what exists, where to find it, and why comparing one year to another is harder than it looks.
- Cup of Excellence — The competition that invented the online green-coffee auction, now run across many producing countries.
- Cup of Excellence 1999-2003 — The first five Cup of Excellence competitions, year by year — who won, what the lots sold for, who bought them, and why the cupping scores are missing from the early records.
- Cup of Excellence records by country — Country-by-country record prices at the Cup of Excellence auctions — who won, what it sold for, and who bought it, with the shaky numbers flagged.
- Echoes of the Peak — The private Ethiopian auction run by producer Alo Coffee, where a five-kilo lot sold for $1,739 a kilo in 2025 — a national record, but not a Cup of Excellence one.
- Good Food Awards — An American food-and-drink competition whose coffee category judges cup quality and sourcing ethics together — a roaster must taste good and prove how it bought the coffee.
- Green coffee auctions — The mechanism behind the famous record prices — cup a lot blind, score it, then let the world bid on it in the open. How competition auctions, curated auctions and estate-run private sales all turn a cupping score into a public price.
- International Coffee Tasting — The Italian-run medal competition for roasted coffee — judged blind by trained panels, awarded in Platinum and Gold, and increasingly held in Asia rather than Italy.
- Panama Cup — The top overall honour at Best of Panama — the title given to the best specialty coffee producer of the year, above any single-lot placing.
- Vietnam Amazing Cup — Vietnam’s national specialty green-coffee competition, run from Buôn Ma Thuột by the Buôn Ma Thuột Coffee Association — the first Vietnamese contest this wiki can name winning farms for, judged in separate Robusta and Arabica categories.