Wellington's award winning coffee scene

By Nina Karnikowski
December 3 2016 - 12:15am
Coffee as an art form.  Photo: Nina Karnikowski
Coffee as an art form. Photo: Nina Karnikowski
Wellington takes its coffee very seriously. Photo: Nina Karnikowski
Wellington takes its coffee very seriously. Photo: Nina Karnikowski

It's not until I reach the airport on my way out of Wellington that I realise just how high I am. My hands shake as I fill my bottle at the water fountain; sitting in the lounge I hear the whoomp of my heart furiously pumping blood around my body; I fuss and fidget and my mind chimpanzees from one thought to another. Ahh, I remember this feeling. This sweaty-palmed, anxiety-riddled feeling that is precisely why I decided to give coffee up for Lent 14 years ago. Until today, that is, when the brews offered up in New Zealand's coffee capital proved too much for me to resist.