World Latte Art Championship
Every year, the best baristas from around the world meet at the World Latte Art Championship and compete against each other for the most hilarious and creative images on coffee.
Baristas are judged based on design, creativity, identical designs in pairs, contrast of designs and overall performance. In the finals, the contestant with the best score is declared the Latte Art World Champion.
Baristas focus on artistic expression in a milky beverage. They start by preparing one creative design and then move to the main stage to create two identical free-poured and two identical designer lattes.
World Latte Art Championships 2022
This year's competition attracted a record 11,000 participants from more than 137 countries. The competition took place in June at the World of Coffee venue inMilan, Italy .
The championship featured a total of five coffee competitions over three days:
- World Latte Art Championship
- World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship
- World Cup Tasters Championship
- World Coffee Roasting Championship
- Cezve/Ibrik Championship
First place went to Carmen Clemente representing Italy. Carmen is no stranger to Latte Art, she has been studying the craft since 2010 and with her partner Manuela Fensore runs aLatte Art school in Milan called Barlady Cafè Academy.
Carmen gave a great performance at the competition and defended the title of World Latte Art Champion for 2022.