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Best Coffee 2011

New Zealanders love their coffee and it's not difficult to find a decent cup. Competition to roast the best coffee in the country is intense and roasters spend two days a year trying to convince 12 judges they're good enough to be judged champion coffee at annual championships.

Auckland's Coffee Lab took away the Huhtamaki Supreme Award.

New Zealand Best Coffee 2011 Results

Huhtamaki Supreme Award
Coffee Lab (Auckland)

Huhtamaki Best NZ Espresso
Gold: Fixation (Tauranga).
Silver: Ris'tretto (Christchurch), Coffee Lab (Auckland), Rush (Wellsford).
Bronze: Espresso Workshop (Auckland), Pomeroys (Nelson), Roma (Auckland), Switch (Napier), Celcius (Lower Hutt), Cigana (Auckland).

Meadowfresh Best Flat White
Gold: Rush (Wellsford), Summit (Taupo)
Silver: Volt (Auckland), Bruno Rossi (Auckland), Coffee & Tea Lovers (Auckland).
Bronze: Altezano (Auckland), Max (Kerikeri), Barista Empire (Auckland), Excelso (Tauranga).

NetInsites Best Organic
Gold: Coffee Lab (Auckland).
Silver: Jungle (Auckland), Toxic (Stoke).
Bronze: Espresso Workshop (Auckland), Ignite (Auckland), Zee (Auckland), Volt (Auckland).

Sherpac Best Foodservice Plunger
Gold: Barista Empire (Auckland).
Silver: Ambition (Roma (Auckland), Veni (Auckland).
Bronze: Celcius (Lower Hutt), Flight (Napier), Wildcat (Wanganui), Volt (Auckland).

Mazzer Best Ethically Traded
Gold: Flight (Napier).
Silver: Hawthorne (Havelock North), Celcius (Lower Hutt).
Bronze: Fixation (Tauranga), CoffeeWorx (Christchurch), Esseza (Morrinsville), Veni (Auckland).

Café magazine Best Supermarket Plunger
Gold: Gravity (Auckland).
Silver: Max (Kerikeri), CoffeeWorx (Christchurch), Rush (Wellsford).
Bronze: Hawthorne (Bronze), Coffee LaLa (Coromandel), Peru (New Plymouth), Pomeroys (Nelson), Revive (Wellington), Vivace (Christchurch).

Best Supermarket Espresso
Gold: Rush (Wellsford).
Silver: Gravity (Auckland), The Grind (Upper Moutere).
Bronze: Celcius (Lower Hutt), Switch (Napier), Karajoz (Auckland), FRED (Auckland), Max (Kerikeri).

MIT Best Decaffeinated
Gold: Cigana (Auckland)
Silver: Excelso (Tauranga), Coffee Lab (Auckland).
Bronze: Toasted Espressso (Auckland), Puhoi Coffee, Robert Harris (Auckland), Altura (Auckland), Barista (Auckland), Orb (Auckland).