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Jocutla Coffee at the Third edition of the International Contest – AVPA 2017

The Third edition of the International Contest of Coffees Roasted in their Countries of Origin AVPA- Paris 2017

On Wednesday, the 28th of June, at the prestigious Peruvian Embassy in Paris, medals are awarded to the best coffees that participated in the 3rd International Contest of Coffees Roasted in their Countries of Origin.

This third contest confirmed the expectations of the initiators and the participants. As for the producers, the passion is there: certain producers did an exceptional job on their green coffee, from its harvesting, its processing, its fermentation which were really controlled, its drying and finally its roasting. For the consuming countries the enthusiasm is still rolling for younger and younger coffee amateurs. The AVPA jury is reflecting this friendly evolution.  The jury President, Mr. André Rocher, conforted by his own prestigious experience is relying upon the knowledge of elder members, while allowing younger members, like Nir Chouchana, President of the French Network of Baristas or Marina de Rouvre, recently graduated as sommelier and awarded in cupping contests, to express themselves.

Many countries participated in this competition. Still very present were coffees from Latin American countries mainly Colombia, Peru and Mexico, then Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador. From Asian countries were Nepal, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. This year Africa with Cameroon, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Togo confirmed the quality of its most known coffees. We also noted the presence of Rwanda participating for the first time, with other countries: like Haiti, Hawaii and Porto Rico.

160 cuppings were done in French press and/ or espresso, which was a big task for the very selective but always passionate jury. Once more there was a great quality not only for the roasted beans but also for the packages which conformity was checked by a specialized technician. They are more and more efficient and allow to plan a worldwide distribution. Among all these coffees 8 coffees obtained a “Gourmet Or”, 18 coffees obtained a “Gourmet Argent” and 23 coffees obtained a “Gourmet Bronze”.

It is during the friendly   and brilliant event opened by his Excellency Alvaro de Soto, Minister Ambassador  of Peru, that Philippe Juglar and the whole AVPA team took the pleasure to award the 2017 medals, Trophies and Diplomas, to producers who travelled all the way to France specifically for this occasion. The assembly was composed of Ambassadors, diplomatic delegates from producing countries and roasters

The diplomatic representants, mostly at the highest level of Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nepal, Philippines, Salvador, Togo and Vietnam could have organized a real coffee summit! Besides this prestigious diplomatic assembly, the gastronomy world also wanted to attend and join the AVPA fiends to applause the happy winners. So among the audience we noted the presence of Mr. Fabrice Prochasson, President of the prestigious Culinary Academy of France

Besides this award ceremony was organised a coffee tasting at AVPA premises and a seminary at the Hôtel of the Cognacq-Jay Museum, followed by a full day in Champagne where the Champagnes Collet and the CIVC represented by its brilliant director M. Charles Goemaere, allowed a concrete approach of complex themes like taste or geographic identity.

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