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New Zealand Coffee Lovers to Enjoy Award Winning Coffee

Thursday 13 October 2011, 2:34PM

By Alliance for Coffee Excellence, Inc.

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Wellington based Coffee Supreme is one of very few roasters
internationally that has access to the Cup of Excellence(R) award winning
coffees for 2011. Started in 1993 and one of the largest specialty roasters in
New Zealand, Coffee Supreme outbid several other companies for the right to own
and sell coffee from both Nicaragua's and El Salvador's Cup of Excellence
auctions.

"Even in uncertain economic times, this is a clear sign that
farmer-identified, exceptional coffees with unique flavor profiles are very
much appreciated by coffee connoisseurs in New Zealand," explained Susie
Spindler, Executive Director of The Alliance for Coffee Excellence Inc., the
non-profit managers of the premier, competition for the world's finest
coffees.

Mario Jose Viches Urbina won a place in the Nicaragua competition with a
coffee that was characterized as having crisp, citric notes, a banana and
pear like sweetness, loads of chocolate flavor with great balance and a
sweet apple finish. The farm, Santa Gema is a small family farm located in
Nueva Segovia, a popular coffee growing region in Nicaragua.

A third generation coffee farmer, Rafael Duch Martinez, won a place in
El Salvador's competition with coffee from La Nueva, a farm in the
Apaneca-Ilamatepec region of the smaller country of El Salvador. This coffee
is the famous Bourbon variety and has been described as having lovely
jasmine aroma, lively sweet flavor characteristics full of chocolate, plums
and grapes and ending with buttery, smooth body.

Coffee Supreme, with locations in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and
Melbourne, Australia purchased both entire winning lots and is the only
company authorized to sell these particular Cup of Excellence coffees. To
find these coffees log on to http://www.coffeesupreme.com

Since 1999, the Cup of Excellence competition has been hosted in Brazil,
Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Colombia
and Rwanda with future expansion planned. Each competition is open to all
farmers in a producing country with no fee attached for the first entry.

For more information about the Cup of Excellence program log on to
http://www.cupofexcellence.org