Project Origin has celebrated the best of El Salvador coffee in its inaugural event, which took place from 2 – 8 May.
With a score of 88.75, Ever Leonel Díaz Pérez from the Milaydi farm in the Chalatenango region took top honours in the Washed Category. Read more
Consumer advocacy group Choice has welcomed the release of the Federal Government’s new country of origin food labelling scheme, along with funding for consumer regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), to make sure companies implement labels correctly.
“The Federal Government has taken a big step towards ending the confusion around country of origin labelling, especially for consumers who want to know how much of a product was manufactured or grown locally,” says Choice spokesperson Tom Godfrey. Read more
The International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) Australian Chapter formation will host its second origin trip from 29 March to 2 April – this time to far North Queensland.
Women and men of the coffee community are invited to explore Queensland’s coffee growing regions and the people and communities that make it such a unique part of Australia’s coffee identity. Read more
World Barista Champion (WBC) Sasa Sestic has unveiled a new auction program for El Salvador and Honduras.
Named The Best of Project Origin, Sasa has created the auctions to help develop coffee growing communities and advance quality coffee globally. Read more
Tea purists tend to lament café offerings of blended and flavoured tea as an aberration of “real tea”, but what they may not realise is that, from the very early days, tea was a mixed bag – pardon the pun. Read more