Sunalini N Menon is Asia's first woman professional in the field of coffee tasting, also known as

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. She has been called "Asia's first lady of coffee".

Career

Until 1995, Menon was the director of quality control for the

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. following this, she founded her own company, Coffeelab, in

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, India. In 2005, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Women’s Coffee Alliance (IWCA) in

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References

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