Cup Tasters 2025 – It’s all on!
Are you ready to cup? Noon, Sunday 15 June, The Sapphire Room, Ponsonby, Auckland. It’s been said that our Principal Sponsor in the Aotearoa Cup
Championships
Auckland Timeline Regional Barista Champs
9:00am Renee Kang, Society Coffee Roasters, Auckland 9:25am Joshua Peacocke, Independent, Auckland 9:50am Qiqi He, Eternal Coffee, Auckland 10:15am Mark Liao, Legend Coffee Roasters, Auckland
Conversations on Coffee: Chat with the Champs, the Barista edition.
Chat with the Champs! Celebrating the achievements of our 2023 and 2024 NZ Barista Champions. We invite you to learn about their journey, the team
Regional Barista Championships: All the details, get involved in 2025!
Regionals Dates ’25: Christchurch, Sunday 30 March, and Auckland, Sunday 13 April Ticket sales are now closed for Baristas. Guest Judges, spectators, we need you!
Latte Art Competitor – Takashi Ueno
We interviewed Takashi Ueno, a latte art competitor about his experience at the Aotearoa Latte Art Championship ’24. Takashi, you’ve competed for 8 years in
Our Barista Champs Sponsors
Thanks to our amazing sponsors, this event just got bigger with the addition of three regional events in March. We are proud of our events
Our Barista Champions: Honoka Kawashima 2023
As we move towards 2024 and the return of regional barista events we want to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people that were
Regional Competitors ’24
Please see updates here for all listed competitors in our Regional events and a little bit about them and why they want to compete. Respect.
Celebrating our past Barista Champions
The return of regional barista events has encouraged us to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people who are part of the Championship journey
Our Barista Champions: Luciano Marcolino 2006, 2008 & 2010
As we move towards 2024 and the return of regional barista events we want to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people that were
Our Barista Champions: Emma Markland Webster 2002
As we move towards 2024 and the return of regional barista events we want to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people that were
Our Barista Champions: Hide Kono 2011
As we move towards 2024 and the return of regional barista events we want to acknowledge and celebrate the past and the people that were