If a buyer is making a purchasing decision based on the singular “cupping score” alone, users will still be able to differentiate between coffees through the score—a 90-score coffee is clearly more appreciated by whoever assessed it than an 80-score coffee. As the industry adopts the CVA, we anticipate that, alongside a score in the new scale, contracts might include descriptive and extrinsic assessments as appendices. Future contracts may even list specific intrinsic or extrinic attributes to be shown by a coffee in a lot, rather than just a score.