“Dubai Coffee Auction” records record prices at 36 thousand dirhams per kilo of coffee

The “Dubai Luxury Coffee Auction”, organized by the Dubai Center for Multiple Commodities, within the activities of the “Coffee World Fair 2025 Dubai”, which concluded its activities in Dubai yesterday, record prices, as 16 groups of Andner and luxury pills were offered, presented by 11 products Various from nine countries, including 11 groups of “army” coffee, which included six different types of coffee, which made the auction a global offer for the best coffee producers in the world.

A statement yesterday stated that the highest price coffee in the auction was the natural “army” coffee from the “Vinca Sofia” farm in Panama, where one kilogram was sold for 10 thousand and 20 dollars (about 36 thousand and 798 dirhams), while the price of a kilogram of a kind reached Another of the farm itself to 8614 dollars, while a class of Venca Lamola farms sold $ 2620 per kilogram, and the price per kilogram of “Uma Natural” coffee from Ethiopia reached $ 1100, which is a new record for Ethiopian coffee.

In turn, the price of a kilogram of “KUNA SL 34” from Hawaii achieved a new record for American coffee, as it was sold at a price of 950 dollars per kilogram, at an altitude of eight times the highest previous price that was paid to the coffee “KUNA”.

The first CEO, Executive Director of the Dubai Multi Commodities Center, Ahmed bin Salim said: Global coffee ».

He added: «Through a transparent and competitive platform for bidding, we succeeded in enhancing the mechanism of discovering prices in the specialized coffee market, and we gathered coffee producers, merchants and lovers from around the world, which confirms the pivotal role of the Dubai Center for Multiple Commodities in drawing the features of one of the most traded goods at the level the world”.

For his part, the first deputy chief executive of the “DXB Life”, the arm of providing integrated events organizing and managing services at the Dubai World Trade Center, Khaled Al Hammadi: “The first auction for coffee in Dubai has strengthened Dubai’s position as a global coffee trade center, by collecting producers Traders and coffee lovers, where the auction offered some of the rarest and best types of coffee, achieving amazing results, and recording new records. ”

He added, “This auction not only highlighted the increasing demand for luxury and rare coffee pills, but also confirmed our commitment to advance the wheel of growth and excellence in this industry, by holding such events.”

In the same context, the director of auction, CEO and co-founder of M-Cultivo, David Babarelli: “Prices in specialized coffee auctions differ from regular market prices, where buyers do not compare these coffee coffee coffee, but rather see them as Luxury goods. It is like comparing the watch (Philip Patek) an hour (Timex), both of which are an hour, but each belongs to a completely different category.

Specialized coffee

The competent coffee is classified as those that get 80 points or more, according to a scale of 100 points used in the taste form of the “competent coffee association”, and all the payments that were offered at the auction got 92 points or more.

The high prices are determined based on three main factors: the first is that coffee is among the best in the world, and you usually get an evaluation above 90 points in taste tests, and secondly the scarcity, because the limited quantity leads to an increase in demand, as the unique conditions of agriculture and production contribute in quantities Few in its scarcity, the third factor is the reputation of the product and its story that plays a major role, as buyers search for consistency in the quality and the distinguished background that adds value to the coffee.

“Army” coffee

The “Army” coffee is one of the rarest and most expensive coffee in the world, and it is known for its unique taste and its high quality, and it is characterized by pink and acidic fruits such as jasmine, with a soft texture, and its origins return to Ethiopia, specifically to the village The 1960s to Panama, and “Laia” pills from the producer “Los Rodriguez” have become the most expensive bolivian coffee that is sold at all, with a price of $ 350 per kilogram.