CoffeeNov 6, 2026
He won the world barista title, then built coffee's strictest school in oslo
Official homepage: https://timwendelboe.no The most influential coffee brand in the world may also be the smallest. Tim Wendelboe the person won the World Barista Championship in 2004 and the World Cup Tasters Championship in 2005, then opened a micro-roastery and espresso bar in Oslo's Gr nerl kka district in June 2007 and proceeded to define what the world now calls the Nordic roast style: ultra-light, terroir-driven, unapologetically acidic. The roastery was named World's Best Roastery in 2013, its coffee appears at Noma and in more than three hundred caf s worldwide, and the whole operation still revolves around one school of thought taught at one training center. This review examines the store where modern light-roast coffee was codified …