Barefoot’s own Christian Rotsko is in El Salvador this week judging at the Cup of Excellence competition. This is his first COE judging trip. Excited and pumped barely captures it. There are 60 coffees that made it through the first five rounds of national jury selection. That is a lot of coffees to cup! Likely 25-30 will make it to the final cut.
In addition to cupping those 60 coffees multiple times all week Christian is also visiting some of our farms for this year, Finca San Jose, Malacara and Teopan. Some killer coffee coming out of these three farms this year. We expect to see all three in the COE auction this year. Christian will also be cupping another 20-30 coffees outside the auction to find a certain gem coffee we have been searching for.
Stay tuned for updates and info.