Making coffee is an art, but it is also something inherently connected to technology. That coffee that wakes us up every morning can be prepared in many ways, but even though coffee machines like the traditional Italian coffee may seem very simple to us, it is the result of a well-studied design. Even filtered coffee requires a certain technique, but from time to time we see machines trying to revolutionize the preparation of this healthy drink.

And in this embrace between innovation and tradition we find machines like La Marzocco Vespucci. A true work of art, unique in the world and not a simple machine: there are five of them.

Florentine purity. This machine is unique and located in a very special place for coffee: Accademia del Caffè Espresso. It is Florence, of course, where coffee is an integral part of culinary culture and a museum, a distribution center, a mix between science and discovery, where coffee is the absolute hero.

It was founded by the espresso machine manufacturer La Marzocco company, and the idea of ​​​​the center is for us to absorb the coffee culture, the various ways of preparing coffee and learn the history of this drink. This converted former La Marzocco factory can be visited, which hosts workshops and live demonstrations for baristas and students, but of all the things we can take away from the Accademia, it’s the Vespucci that’s sure to attract the most attention.

The Rolls-Royce of coffee machines. There are very nice coffee machines. If you’ve ever been to a specialty coffee shop and liked their work, you’ve surely looked at the huge machines they use to brew coffee for a few seconds. Even multi-commercial chains like Starbucks have giant Mastrena machines that leave us speechless. Or has been since they recently switched to Clover Vertica.

The one at Accademia del Caffè Espresso… just like a Rolls-Royce. It’s too big for beginners. It is so tall that five people can make coffee side by side at the same time. To continue, it has a very simple design but has extremely elegant details such as a ‘facade’ created to diffusely reflect the room it is in.

five modes. But being beautiful is not her virtue: What matters is that she is versatile. We mentioned that it can brew coffee for five people at the same time, and it’s true: It not only has five heads, but also seven tanks that can boil water separately for each group. It’s like they’re five different coffee machines specializing in a single preparation, but united under the same chassis.

All of them are focused on the preparation of espresso coffee, but we find the one with the most traditional filter holder that we can have at home, the one that allows volumetric preparation, the one with manual pressure control and the most curious form: preparation with. Let us be the ones pulling the lever down to reach a pressure of nine bars.

Prepare your portfolio. Unfortunately, we cannot give a price because it is a unique machine. What we can do is look at the prices of some of the machines that La Marzocco sells and the first thing I look for is the Cam system. I called Leva

Another example is the gb5 s, an espresso machine that comes in two, three or four-group configurations, with the two-group version starting at 16,000 euros. La Marzocco also has the strada av, a two-group volumetric machine that costs more than 21,000 euros. Specifically, the machines Vespucci assembled are:

• strada ep
• cam x
• street hunt
• gs
• eh

coffee pride. In addition to the fact that Vespucci is not unique in the world, a training process is required to use Vespucci correctly because there are some processes that do not have the automation we see in commercial machines. This allows baristas to “train” to use these technologies and techniques and is part of the tremendous Italian coffee tradition in general and Florence in particular.

Considering that the country is not a coffee producer, but an importer of green beans that are then roasted and processed, this coffee-related culture has always attracted my attention. Now this may change if climate change continues at this rate, because we are seeing the first fruits in places where coffee cultivation has failed for a century. Moreover, this is not unique to Italy: Spain is also following the same path with Andalusian and Catalan coffee.

Pictures | Lamarsacoffee, Golden Brown Coffee (YT)

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