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Article: Minas Gerais leader again at Illycaffe Coffee Quality Awards.(World News: Coffee and Tea Reports from the Front Line)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- June 20, 2005
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BRAZIL -- The Italian roaster, Illycaffe announced the winners of the 14th edition of the Illycaffe Espresso Coffee Quality Awards at a ceremony recently held in Sao Paulo, Brazil The yearly promotion of the Italian roaster began in 1991, as an instrument to insure supplies of the unique high quality Brazilian coffees required as the principal component of their espresso blends.
Previously, Brazil was considered a producer of large volumes of commodity coffees with little concern for quality but Illycaffe president, Ernesto lily, recognized that Brazil had the potential to produce specialty and idealized the award program to give growers an incentive to improve ...