- 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.
- Cup of Excellence — The competition that invented the online green-coffee auction, now run across many producing countries.
- 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.
- Specialty coffee — The industry’s own name for the top tier of coffee — what the definition actually says today, where the famous “80 points” line came from, and why the two no longer match.