Yunnan Coffee Quality Earns World Top Certification

At a Glance (China Coffee Network): At the 2026 second Yunnan Treasure Coffee Green Bean Competition (Yunnan CoE pilot) in Kunming, three Yunnan green-bean lots broke the 90-point barrier in international judging—a milestone that marks world-top quality certification for Yunnan coffee.

On June 25, the 2026 second Yunnan Treasure Coffee Green Bean Competition (Yunnan Cup of Excellence pilot) concluded in Kunming. In the competition’s international judging, three Yunnan green-bean lots broke the 90-point barrier, achieving a milestone breakthrough in the history of Yunnan coffee development.

The Cup of Excellence (CoE) is known as the “Olympics of green coffee beans,” the world’s most credible and industry-recognized premium green-bean competition, and the authoritative passport for global coffee regions to enter the world-class premium coffee map. Under its extremely stringent scoring system, beans above 87 points are already internationally recognized premium coffee, while above 90 represents “excellence,” the hallmark of world-top coffee beans.

It is reported that the birth of the three “90+” scored green beans is the result of years of accumulated strength in Yunnan’s coffee industry, and the crystallization of joint efforts by coffee farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs across the province. It marks that Yunnan coffee has obtained world-top certification in quality, opened a global high-end channel in the market, strengthened confidence in premium transformation in the industry, and won international discourse power in culture.

This pilot strictly followed CoE’s unified international standards and was comprehensively upgraded in event level and participation scale, collecting 169 competing green-bean lots in total. Professional judges from home and abroad conducted a two-week, multi-round cup-testing screening and independent scoring across eight core dimensions—cleanliness, sweetness, acidity, mouthfeel, flavor, aftertaste, balance and overall impression—accumulating practical experience for the subsequent formal introduction of the CoE competition system. (Reporter Zhu Hai)