Colombia Coffee Breaks Record at $15,600 per Kilo — And It’s Not Geisha!
On October 22, Café Granja La Esperanza, one of Colombia’s most prestigious coffee estates, hosted the 2025 Cumbres de Colombia Specialty Coffee Global Auction on the V-Auction platform. During the event, a lot of “Mavicure Hills – Laurina Natural” coffee beans set a new national record, fetching the highest price ever recorded for Colombian coffee. The winning bid came from Brew92 , a well-known Saudi Arabian specialty coffee company, at an astonishing $995.25 per pound (that’s $2,194.1 per kilogram , or roughly ¥15,600 RMB per kilogram of green beans ). Only 13.2 pounds of this batch were available, totaling $13,137.30 . As the saying goes—when Middle Eastern coffee connoisseurs step in, prices soar! The winning variety, Laurina (also known as Bourbon Pointu , nicknamed the “slender Bourbon” because of its long, pointed bean shape), is prized for its naturally low caffeine content and exceptional flavor profile . It’s also extremely rare. Interestingly, this same variety w...