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OPEN DE CATA BARCELONA 2026 — WINNERS 🏆

After two days of intense competition, sensory challenges, blind tastings, and triangulation rounds, we are proud to announce the winners of the Open de Cata Barcelona 2026!

🥇 1st Place — Max Mak 🇨🇳 — @maishizongmax
🏆 Champion of Open de Cata Barcelona 2026
💰 Prize: €15,000

🥈 2nd Place — Zbyněk Vojtěšek 🇨🇿 — @zbynekvojtesek
💰 Prize: €5,000

🥉 3rd Place — Frankie Shi 🇦🇺 — @frankieshi
💰 Prize: €3,000

🏅 4th Place — Shaun Nam 🇦🇺 — @naked.coffee
💰 Prize: €2,000

Congratulations to all finalists and participants for an outstanding level of competition and for making this edition truly unforgettable.

A huge thank you to the @mareterracoffee Team, our partners, volunteers, sponsors, and everyone who followed the event live from around the world. ☕❤️

See you at the next Open de Cata! by @opendecata

A new chapter begins in Spring 2027. 🏆☕️

New countries. New challengers. New coffees.

The Open de Cata competitions are coming back — and they’re all leading to one final destination:

The Open de Cata Grand Final — 2028.

Train hard. Get ready. We’ll take care of making it happen.

Thank you to our partners, our team, and every competitor who makes this journey possible. ❤️

See you in 2027. The road to 2028 starts now. by @opendecata

Coffee, origin and shared experiences. ☕️

During the Open de Cata, we asked some of the participants what they had discovered during their stay in Spain and which coffee from the competition had stayed with them the most.

Different answers, different cups, one shared passion: coffee. 🍒 by @opendecata

The Open de Cata Semifinal collection is now available. 🏆

Six anaerobic natural coffees from El Salvador and Nicaragua, carefully selected to challenge sensory memory. Similar genetics, fermentation methods and terroirs made every cup remarkably close, rewarding only the most attentive palates.

Now it’s your turn to discover the challenge.

🍒 Six exceptional lots.
☕ Limited availability.
🏆 The official Open de Cata Semifinal selection.

🛒 Shop now at mareterracoffee.com by @opendecata

The Open de Cata coffee selection is now available. 🏆

The six coffees selected for the qualifying round weren’t chosen only for their quality, but for the way they interact in the cup. Similar sensory profiles, carefully selected origins, and washed processes designed to challenge even the world’s best cuppers. Only 4 out of 46 competitors identified all six coffees correctly.

Now it’s your turn to discover why.

🍒 Exceptional lots.
☕ Limited availability.
🏆 Curated selection.

🛒 Buy now at mareterracoffee.com by @opendecata

The best coffee selection from this edition is now available at Mare Terra Coffee.

The same coffees that challenged competitors during @opendecata can now be yours.

🍒 Exceptional lots.
☕ Limited availability.
🏆 Curated selection.

🛒 Buy now at mareterracoffee.com by @opendecata

Open de Cata is more than a competition. It’s producers, roasters, volunteers, judges, competitors, and months of preparation coming together in one place. This is a glimpse of what happened behind the scenes.

📹 Full vlog available on the Mare Terra Coffee YouTube channel. by @opendecata

Con este campeonato, completamos el período de un año y medio, donde el Open de Cata fue su culminación. Durante este período, realizamos muchos campeonatos desde Costa Rica hasta Shanghái, viajando, conociendo, contando y escuchando.

Dos días pasaron volando como 6 minutos de Cata, hubo errores en algunos momentos, pero en general fue Cooooreeecto!

Creo que conseguimos hacer el campeonato difícil, pero muy rico, abierto, para unir gente que no cansa aprender y compartir!

¡Una vez más vi a un equipo bien coordinado, confiable, el mejor del mundo! Lágrimas de alegría, competidores que discuten la estrategia entre ellos y se regocijan por los éxitos de los rivales, se abrazan y se apoyan mutuamente.

Vi cómo el café y su combinación siguen sorprendiendo incluso a los catadores muy experimentadas. ¡Fue una gran temporada!

Para vosotros nos tomaremos un descanso hasta el año próximo, pero internamente ya estamos trabajando preparando una nueva temporada, nuevos torneos, nuevo café!

¡Todo acaba de empezar! by @opendecata

Here’s a short video from the semifinals and finals. Amazing competitors joined us and made this competition truly unique, unforgettable, exciting, and incredibly powerful.

Stay tuned to see what’s next💥🍒 by @opendecata

What a way to end Open de Cata Barcelona 2026. ☕️

After two days of competition, sensory challenges and an incredibly close final, congratulations to all participants, and especially to this year’s champion, Max Mak 🇨🇳 (@maishizongmax). 🏆

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Barcelona, our partners, sponsors, volunteers, and the entire @mareterracoffee team, as well as everyone who followed the championship from around the world.

See you soon! ☕ by @opendecata

Here’s a quick recap of the first day of Open de Cata! ☕️

A huge thank you to all the competitors for bringing their passion, talent, and energy to the stage. It’s a privilege to share this championship with such an inspiring coffee community.

Congratulations to all our semifinalists, and best of luck as they take on the next stage of the competition! 👏🏆

The semifinals are already underway from 11:15 AM, and you can watch all the action live on Mare Terra Coffee YouTube Channel.

Thank you to everyone who joined us, supported the competitors, and helped make this event so special. 🙌 by @opendecata

Here’s a recap of the day we experienced today! ☕️✨

It has been an absolute pleasure to share this competition with such wonderful coffee lovers.

But it’s not over yet — tomorrow is the Grand Final! 🏆

Join us at the W or tune in via livestream. We kick off at 11:30 AM!

See you there! 🙌🎥☕️ by @opendecata