A Conversation With … Saxon Wright

A Conversation With … Saxon Wright

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Interview

Having been at the helm of café-cum craft roaster Pablo & Rusty for the past fifteen years, CEO Saxon Wright has had a front row seat to the rapid transformation of coffee in Sydney and around the world. This has meant that Saxon has had to take on many hats, from roasting, to green bean sourcing to technological innovation.

MICE 2019 

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Events

As the largest coffee event in a region obsessed with getting the most out of the brewed bean, the 2019 edition of the Melbourne International Coffee Expo was not getting any smaller.

3Brothers Brazil 

3Brothers Brazil 

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Source, Brazil

What do you do when you know a country produces good coffee, but the coffee from that country is exported as a high-volume, low value product? That was the question that faced Tercio Borba, when he came to Australia from Brazil. 

Room Two Ten 

Room Two Ten 

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Café

Cafes and community are often talked about together. Whether it is providing a meeting point for locals, or a piece of infrastructure that is as vital as a library, the best cafes are those that are enmeshed in their local surroundings. 

The Complexities of Kenyan Coffee 

The Complexities of Kenyan Coffee 

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Kenya

Two decades ago, Kenyan coffee farmers armed themselves with bows and arrows and marched on the offices and factories of the companies that process and export their beans. Fed up with low prices for their crop and and complex credit system that tied them into relationships of debt and dependency, the farmers had had enough. 

Artificer Coffee 

Artificer Coffee 

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Café

If you do one thing, do it well, would have to be the motto of Dan Yee, co-founder of Artificer coffee in Surry Hills. Taking an only coffee approach to the competitive café market in inner Sydney, marks out Artificer as a an outfit dedicated to their craft.