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2018 World Barista Championship
- Winner
2018 Polish Barista Champion
2018 Polish Latte Art Champion
2018 London Coffee Masters – Winner

2017 New York Coffee Masters –
Runner-up
2017 World Latte Art Championship
– 3rd Place
2017 Polish Brewers Cup – Runner-up
2017 Polish Latte Art Champion
T here were only two peo- 2016 World Latte Art Battle, Seoul Where did you grow up and
ple left, Agnieszka Rojew-
– Best Performance Award
ska and Lex Wenneker,
w aiting to h ear th eir 2016 Polish Barista of the Year what was the coffee culture
2016 World Latte Art Championship
there like?
names and understand who is the – 5th Place
new World Barista Champion. As 2016 Polish Barista Champion I grew up in Mosina. Small city near
you can imagine, you could cut the 2016 Dublin World Barista Champion- Poznan where I live now. Their
ship – 34th Place, Round One
air with a knife as the tension was 2016 Polish Latte Art Champion coffee culture doesn’t really exist.
growing with every other name be- Even though, my family drinks cof-
ing called out. And finally, the first 2015 Seattle World Barista Champion- fee and it seems like it is getting
female Barista Champion that we all ship – 34th Place, Round One better and better for them as they
have been waiting for is here! Ag- 2015 Milano Latte Art Challenge learn. My first coffee was Instant
2015 Polish Barista Champion
nieszka Rojewska has a god given coffee – like for most of the people
talent for coffee: just look at her 2014 Polish Barista Championship – here. I was 16 years old, and drank
competitions’ list and you’ll get it. Runner-up it just because I needed to study a
No wonder why Sasa Sestic and the 2014 World Latte Art Championship lot in the evening.
whole ONA Coffee family invited – 17th Place, Round One
2014 Polish Latte Art Champion
Aga to Australia to prepare and How did you fall in love with
study coffee with them. As an inde- coffee and entered coffee in-
pendent contestant, Aga still had to dustry?
keep up with work to support her-
self. That is why, after short period I was a student in the University of
of training in Australia, she went Economics in Poznan. Coffee was my
back to Poland where she studied first job. I have entered the industry
with YouTube videos. B e i n g i n - by accident – I was just looking for a
credibly talented and skilled, she part time job for summer. By now, I’ve
still seems very humble when you been making coffee for more than 10
talk to her. And Coffee t&i was years. First I fell in love with latte art
lucky to catch her for a small talk and then, after 5 years in the industry,
right before her life becomes in- I had an amazing espresso and started
credibly busy.
to focus more on the flavour.

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