The International Agro-industrial Food Fair recently held in Havana, awarded the First Place for Product Quality to the LIDECA Coffee Company from the municipality of Contramaestre in a working alliance with the Basic Derivative Business Unit of the Dos Ríos de Palma Soriano Agro-Industrial Sugar Company. A wine and a coffee-flavored liqueur attracted attention at the event and finally won the important recognition. This is a recognition to entrepreneurship, diversification and productive chaining.
“A good liqueur tastes better if it is made of coffee and Contramaestre”, says the slogan of one of the two beverages that together won First Place for Product Quality at the 25th Edition of the International Agroindustrial Food Fair held in Havana, Cuba.
The result of a working alliance between the Contramaestre Coffee Company and the Derivatives Business Unit of the Dos Rios Agroindustrial Sugar Company of Palma Soriano, the Licodeca and Vinodeca formulations were a success at the event and attracted the attention of foreign investors.
For this reason, the news was shared in a special morning show developed in the workshops where the final product is obtained: the Combinado de Derivados de la Caña de azúcar (Sugarcane Derivatives Combination) in Palma Soriano.
Both the wine and the liqueur awarded at FIAGROP 2024 have undergone a process of improvement in which tasters and specialists from Contramaestre and Palma Soriano have participated.
Achieving the perfect blend was not an easy task and is the result of an exemplary work of alliances, diversification of production and production chains. Entrepreneurial and hard-working people with ample experience in coffee and sugar cane alcohol processing have put their efforts into it.
Emblematic places in the province of Santiago de Cuba have served both the wine and the liquor, in a market test in which the positive results have been certified by the client.
This is only the first step before an open door to the increase of productive options, where the economy grows and everyone wins in an environment of full development of local capacities.
