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		<title>2009 Brazilian Cup of Excellence public cupping</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2010/01/06/2009-brazilian-cup-of-excellence-public-cupping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fratello Coffee is going to be holding a public cupping of the top 10 Cup of Excellence coffees from the Brazilian 2009 competition.  If you are interested in tasting these coffees, please come to Fratello Coffee on January 12th @ 1:30. 
The auction for these coffees will be on January 19th.   26 lots of coffee were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivian Cup of Excellence &#8211; Cafe Central Lot #6</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2009/11/19/bolivian-cup-of-excellence-cafe-central-lot-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fratello just won another Cup of Excellence coffee Lot.  The auction just finished and was one of the longest bidding wars I can remember.  After it was all said and done, the #1 lot was sold for $35.05/lb (green) which is a new record for Bolivian Specialty Coffees.
This stretched on for almost 7 hours!  Fratello [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Coffee&#8217;s Availalbe for Winter Months</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2009/11/05/new-coffees-availalbe-for-winter-months/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:14:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fratello Coffee is introducing 6 new coffee next week.  These seasonal coffees are Fresh Green Arrivals.   We did not buy a lot of these coffees and expect them to move very quickly.  Each of these will be excellent selections to have over Christmas holidays, especially the very rare (just over 300 lbs of each available) Award [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rican Cup of Excellence &#8211; Lot #3</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2009/06/12/costa-rican-cup-of-excellence-lot-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fratello Coffee just won the # 3 Lot of Costa Rican Celle de Copey &#8211; Cup of Excellence today.  This was a HUGE achievement and the highest ranking coffee Fratello has every won.  Jason was part of the jury down in Costa Rica this year and helped approving this coffee as being one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colombian Cup of Excellence 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2009/03/16/colombian-cup-of-excellence-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2009/03/16/colombian-cup-of-excellence-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just returned from Pereira Colombia after judging the 2009 Cup of Excellence competition.   Although tired, I&#8217;m thrilled about this experience.  It is so exciting going through the cupping process and seeing the award ceremony&#8217;s on the final day. 
 
 The Cup of Excellence competition is the most thorough and competitive screening process a coffee farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honduran Cup of Excellence 2008 &#8211; Las Amazonas</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2008/07/09/honduran-cup-of-excellence-2008-las-amazonas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2008/07/09/honduran-cup-of-excellence-2008-las-amazonas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lot#: 26 Erzi Moises Herrera Urizar - Las Amazonas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the online auction for the 2008 Honduras Cup of Excellence competition, and Fratello Coffee is happy to say, that we have won another Lot of coffee, and are the ONLY Canadian company to win one.   This is always an exciting process, and is particularly long, when you are also one of the 26 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fratello Coffee&#8217;s green storage techniques</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2008/02/04/fratello-coffees-green-storage-techniques/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2008/02/04/fratello-coffees-green-storage-techniques/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Green coffee is packaged at origin in 132-152 lb jute (burlap) sacks.  The smell and taste of this jute can be transfered to the green coffee, resulting in a cup referred to as &#8220;baggy&#8221; with an unpleasant musty or straw-like flavor.   As coffee sits in warehouses it becomes old and stale within as little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivian Telmo Cahuana &#8211; Organic &#8211; Cup of Excellence</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2007/11/16/bolivian-telmo-cahuana-organic-cup-of-excellence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2007/11/16/bolivian-telmo-cahuana-organic-cup-of-excellence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[        
Fratello Coffee won its 3rd auction with the Cup of Excellence program on November 15th. This was a fast paced auction with many different roasting and retail companies bidding on the 26 award winning lots. As far as we could see, this auction will result in the highest average prices over all. I congratulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gallery Series: El Salvador COE</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2007/10/18/gallery-series-el-salvador-coe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2007/10/18/gallery-series-el-salvador-coe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gallery Series, refers to those one-of-a-kind coffees with extremely special or exciting flavor qualities, that when we cup them, we recognize as extraordinary. Like other organic food products, the flavor qualities of Gallery Series coffee reflect not just a particular geography, altitude, farm or varietal&#8211;they also reflect less fixed factors like weather and terroir&#8211;which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivian Cup of Excellence 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2007/10/14/bolivian-cup-of-excellence-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.fratellocoffee.com/2007/10/14/bolivian-cup-of-excellence-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>russ</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it was the final day of the 2007 Bolivian Cup of Excellence competition. There was no better way to end off my journey than by seeing all of the hard working farmers and their families cheering each other on in hopes of being one of the 26 finalists.
It was incredible to see their faces [...]]]></description>
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