Claire Wallace wins UK Barista Championship

Big congratulations go to Claire Wallace, Assembly Coffee who is the new @SCA UK Barista Champion 2022 following a spectacular two-day finals event that we hosted at events@270, Elstree, last weekend.

Competitors are scored on sensory and technical elements and Claire achieved the highest score (587 points) to clinch the title.
 
Will Woodhouse-Banks, (572 points) from Taylors of Harrogate was runner up with third place going to Ian Kissick (526.5 points) from Formative Coffee. Well done, great results!
 
Daniel Clarke, Commercial Director, La Cimbali said: “Congratulations to Claire, an extremely worthy winner whose determination really shone through. I am sure she will go on to achieve great things in her career.
 
“It was a real honour for us as machine sponsors to host the finals and we enjoyed three days of exciting competition that concluded with a much-deserved victory for Claire. Excellent stuff.” 

Claire, who came second in the UKBC 2020, is the first female to win this prestigious award and will represent the UK in the World title (WBC) at Melbourne in September.

Pic shows:
Centre: Claire Wallace
Centre Left: Will Woodhouse-Banks
Centre left left : Daniel Clarke
Centre right: Ian Kissick
Centre right right: Louise Felton
Plus Cimbali team!