Bursa Coffee

Cup of Excellence

Four years at the top table

After establishing Bursa Station in Sidama, the coffees earned immediate and repeated recognition in Ethiopia’s Cup of Excellence.

Two of the Bursa team smelling a double handful of dried cherry coffee together beside the drying beds.
2021
Second place — 90.5 points
With the Duwancho cooperative — a natural-processed 74158 lot. Mulugeta Muntasha Bale also placed 6th with 89.6, and 15th with 88.18.
2022
National champion
Legesse Botasa Dikale won first place. Bukato Duge Bale took 4th with 90.17 and the Presidential Award; Tilahun Horsa Fata 6th and Muluneh Tute Galcho 8th with 89.56 — among more than 800 entries.
2023
Competition cancelled
The national competition did not run.
2024
Third place — 89.70 pts
Bukto Dure Bore secured third place and won the CoE auction — the streak resumed.

The producers

The people behind the placements

Every Cup of Excellence result belongs to a named producer. These are the farmers whose lots carried Bursa onto the national table.

2022 Legesse Botasa Dikale National champion
Two of the Bursa team smelling a double handful of dried cherry coffee together beside the drying beds.

Champion of the 2022 Ethiopia Cup of Excellence, taking first place from a field of more than 800 entries — the highest result in Bursa’s record.

Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022
2021 Duwancho Buna Amach Second place
Whole cherries drying intact on a raised bed for the natural process, the bed stretching toward the forest edge.

A natural-processed 74158 lot from the Duwancho cooperative, scoring 90.5 points — the coffee that first put Bursa on the Cup of Excellence table.

Score
90.5 pts
Process
Natural
Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2021
2024 Bukto Dure Bore Third place
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2024 certificate — Bukto Dure Bore, no. 3, score 89.70, CoE Auction Winner.

Third place in the 2024 Cup of Excellence with 89.70 points, and the auction winner of that year — the result that resumed Bursa’s streak after the 2023 competition was cancelled.

Score
89.70 pts
Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2024
Distinction
CoE Auction Winner
2022 Bukato Duge Bale Fourth place
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022 certificate — Bukato Duge Bale, no. 4, score 90.17, Presidential Award Winner.

Fourth place in 2022 with 90.17 points, and named Presidential Award Winner — the highest-scoring Bursa lot on record.

Score
90.17 pts
Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022
Distinction
Presidential Award Winner
2022 Tilahun Horsa Fata Sixth place
A woman in a green headscarf hand-sorting parchment on a raised bed, working defects out of the lot.

Sixth place in the 2022 Cup of Excellence, one of four Bursa producers placing in the top ten that year.

Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022
2021 Mulugeta Muntasha Bale Sixth place
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2021 certificate — Mulugeta Muntasha Bale, no. 6, score 89.6.

The founder’s own lots. Sixth place in 2021 with 89.6 points and fifteenth with 88.18 — thirty years after he began farming coffee in Arbegona.

Score
89.6 pts
Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2021
Also
15th place, 2021 — 88.18 points
2022 Muluneh Tute Galcho Eighth place
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022 certificate — Muluneh Tute Galcho, no. 8, score 89.56.

Eighth place in 2022 with 89.56 points, completing Bursa’s four placements in a single competition year.

Score
89.56 pts
Competition
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022

Cup of Excellence certificates

Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022 certificate — Bukato Duge Bale, no. 4, score 90.17, Presidential Award Winner.
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2024 certificate — Bukto Dure Bore, no. 3, score 89.70, CoE Auction Winner.
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2021 certificate — Mulugeta Muntasha Bale, no. 6, score 89.6.
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2022 certificate — Muluneh Tute Galcho, no. 8, score 89.56.
Cup of Excellence Ethiopia 2021 certificate — Mulugeta Muntasha Bale, no. 15, score 88.18.

Also awarded

Taste of Harvest, 2025–2026

The African Fine Coffees Association’s national competition, judged on the Natural Arabica category for Sidama.

  • Bursa Coffee plc2nd place — 88.09
  • Mulugeta Muntasha14th place — 85.59
African Fine Coffees Association Taste of Harvest 2025–2026 certificate — Bursa Coffee plc, 2nd place, Natural Arabica from Sidama, score 88.09.
African Fine Coffees Association Taste of Harvest 2025–2026 certificate — Mulugeta Muntasha, 14th place, Natural Arabica from Sidama, score 85.59.

They now export premium-quality coffee to buyers in numerous countries worldwide.

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