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    Pete calls Australia home

    Jun 07, 2019 4 minutes

    Melbourne will always be held in the highest esteem for coffee competition veteran Pete Licata. It’s the city where he won the 2013 World Barista Championship (WBC), the city that made him a household name, and the city he now calls home.

    Six years on from his championship win, Pete and his family have made the move from Kansas City to Melbourne, with Pete accepting the role of Research and Development Coffee Consultant with Veneziano Coffee Roaster’s parent company Nomad Coffee Group.

    “We were joking a year ago about me coming to Australia and eventually the talks started becoming more serious. One

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