Ten years, one obsession
An auction by
Savage Coffees × Project Origin
26 november 2026
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A curated auction celebrating a decade of processing innovation between Jamison Savage and Sasa Sestic — from Volcán to Guji, Nyeri and Santa Bárbara.
the story behind the auction
Two companies, one playbook, ten years in the making.
In early 2016, Sasa brought Jamison a concept the coffee world had only seen once before, on the World Barista Championship stage in Seattle. What followed was Jamison's model; a retrofitted beer tank, CO₂ valves, and thirty pounds of washed Morgan Geisha: his first carbonic maceration trial, with no playbook to guide it. It worked, and he never looked back.
A decade later, the two companies co-own a farm and share a processing playbook that spans Panama, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Honduras. Jamison’s coffees have been behind four World Barista Championship titles, Sasa’s a World Brewers Cup title, the first female world champion, and the first African finalist. Yet, none of it has ever gone to auction. This is that first one: built to run annually, to become one of the strongest in coffee, and, from year two on, will open its doors to the Producers we've mentored along the way and others we invite to participate.
This is a global, Producer focused platform, with a spirit sharing coffee excellence while assisting our fellow Producers in need.
The Producer
Jamison Savage. Always innovating, always looking ahead
Volcán - Boquete: Leadership, Precision, Consistency
the sourcer
Sasa Sestic. From the cup back to the farm.
Canberra, Australia. Direct relationships in eighteen origins, and the coaching record behind them.
The Auction
What goes under the hammer.
Thirty five to forty coffees, curated by Jamison and Sasa and cross-cupped on both sides of the Pacific before a single one is confirmed. The innovative lots are small on purpose — 15 to 20 kg, some as little as 5 to 10 kg — sitting alongside the classic washed and natural lots that built the reputations. Scarcity is part of the point.
Bid with purpose: 5 percent of gross sales to producers in need.
Coffees curated
Kilograms per lot
Collaborative processing stations
Origins with a station
%
Gross Sales to producers in need
Where the coffees come from
Four farms. Fifteen stations. Twelve origins.
Panama is the anchor — Finca Deborah Iris Estate Morgan Estate and Don Eduardo in Volcán. Around it, Project Origin's own farms and the collaborative processing stations where the same playbook runs with the farmer: Ethiopia, Kenya, Honduras, Nicaragua, Brazil and beyond.
Stations with lots in this auction
La Huerta
Santa Barbara, honduras
Amederaro
Ethiopia
Maguta
Nyeri, Kenya
Thageini
Kenya
Invented on the farm, proven on the stage
Four processes. One playbook.
The same techniques run at Finca Deborah and Iris Estate are run by our partners in Guji, Nyeri and Santa Bárbara. That is what makes a multi-origin auction coherent: different terroir, same hands, same discipline.
hall of fame
The coffees the champions chose.
Results from the two biggest stages in coffee, with the farms, stations, and processes in this auction. Just a few national titles; Taiwan, China, Poland, Indonesia, Canada, Greece, UAE, Malaysia, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Denmark, New Zealand,and the USA, all won with Savage Coffees or Project Origin coffees.
year
Who
Result
Coffee
2015
Sasa Sestic · Australia
World Barista Champion
Sudan Rume, Las Nubes — the first carbonic maceration coffee
2016
Berg Wu · Taiwan
World Barista Champion
Finca Deborah Terroir — first Geisha to win
2017
Sam Corra · Australia (Ona)
2nd, World Brewers Cup
Finca Deborah — the first CM Geisha
2017
Hugh Kelly · Australia (Ona)
5th, WBC
Finca Deborah whole-cherry CM
2018
Aga Rojewska · Poland
World Barista Champion — first woman
Project Origin CM Diamond, Masina, Ethiopia — coached by Sasa
2018
John Gordon · New Zealand
6th, WBC
Ethiopian CM — coached by Sasa
2019
Dimitrakopoulos · Greece / Jasin · Indonesia
2nd and 4th, WBC
Finca Deborah Echo / Illumination
2021
Matt Winton · Switzerland
World Brewers Cup Champion
Eugenioides, yeast-fermented — coached by Sam Corra
2021
Hugh Kelly / Martin Shabaya
3rd, WBC / first African finalist
Eugenioides yeast lot / Maguta nitrogen, Kenya
2024
Jasin · Simpson · Ishitani
WBC 1st, 2nd, 3rd
Finca Deborah Elipse, Nirvana, Terroir — podium sweep
2024
Project Origin · Kenya
AFCA Taste of Harvest, natural category
First Kenyan natural ever to win it
2025
Jack Simpson · Australia
World Barista Champion
Finca Deborah Aether Geisha — argon hybrid
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Danny Wilson · Australia (Ona)
2nd, World Coffee in Good Spirits
Ethiopian CM and Iris Estate coffees
2026
Andy Philein · China
World win for CIGS
Finca Deborah - Natural Panama Gesha
%
Gross contribution
to global Producers
Yet the vision extends further still…
The Origin Coffee Vault will dedicate five percent of gross auction sales to the tangible betterment of coffee producers and their families—through clean water works, accessible healthcare, upgraded living conditions, and more. This is not mere charity, but a philosophical commitment to reciprocity: the understanding that true excellence flourishes only when human dignity is honored at its source. In giving back a portion of the value created, we affirm a deeper truth—that the beauty of a cup is inseparable from the well-being of those who coax it from the earth. It is an act of shared flourishing, a quiet insistence that prosperity, like the finest coffee, must nourish every hand that shapes it.
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