Tag Archive 'auction_coffee'

The Coffee Divide – Or: At What Price Coffee?

Posted by TheShot on 27 Oct 2006 | Filed under: Café Society, Consumer Trends

There are few things that illustrate the great divide between the old, traditional way of looking at coffee and something of a more recent way than reactions to the price of coffee. (Neither way of which is more or less correct than the other, mind you.) On the one hand, we have the new psychology [...]

Panamanian specialty coffee smashes world price record

Posted by TheShot on 01 Jun 2006 | Filed under: Beans

Canada’s The Globe & Mail reported today that a Panamanian coffee, a little-known Coffea Arabica cultivar called Geisha, received a world record auction price at $50.25 a pound (and this is for unroasted green beans, folks): globeandmail.com : Panamanian specialty coffee smashes world price record. A lot of this year’s Geisha rated at 94.6 pts [...]