Samples available for ‘Best of El Salvador’ auction lots

Samples are now available for all the 85+ scoring coffees entered into this years auction program in El Salvador.

We are only weeks away from the first auction of the year, ‘Project Origin: Best of El Salvador 2017’. Last year, we saw submissions from all over El Salvador, including many small producers that usually sold their coffees as commodity products. The highest scoring coffee of the 2016 auction, Finca Milaydi’s Washed Pacamara, continues to astonish our green bean customers and we are excited to discover more gems such as this in the 2017 auction.

With the assistance and coordination of Gilberto Baraona and Carolina Padilla, more than 90 submissions have been received and judged by a National Jury, which has condensed the list of participating coffees to 50.

Judges and guests, who have applied via the Judging Application Form, will join Project Origin in El Salvador on April 24 – 30, tasting these 50 coffees and condensing them to a shortlist of 20, which will be auctioned online on the final day. These judges and guests will also be visiting farms and mills, holding workshops and forums and most importantly, participating in the auction on the final day.

Now, with the auction so near, Project Origin is releasing samples of the National Jury’s shortlist of 50 coffees. Samples of these 50 coffees are available via our Cropster auction page (here), on which we will also hold the live auction on April 30.

There are some last-minute judging and shadow-judging positions available at the auction in El Salvador. If you can’t make it to this auction, Project Origin will also be coordinating auctions in Nicaragua in June, 2017 and Honduras in July, 2017.

‘Best of El Salvador’: April 24- 30

‘Best of Nicaragua’: June 5 – 10

‘Best of Honduras’: July 24 – 30 

For more information about samples, judging and the auctions in general, contact [email protected]