Ponte Vecchio Lusso

askthecoffeeguy

on 1306752016:

My first review ever.


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1] Make , Model & Year


Ponte Vecchio Lusso 2 group domestic lever, purchased new in 2011 from Sorrentina Coffee

2] First impressions
Small Compact, quiet, cute with its own distinctive personality that makes everyone that comes to the house take an interest.

3] Pros & Cons of the Espresso machine

Pros
Small, Easy to use and it

beanflying

Woohoo managed to split a post, mod it without doing anything dumb - sorry proud moment  ;D They do come with nominal single and double baskets and you can run a double pull per basket if you want Pavoni/Fellini style which gets you 30ml'ish.

Lacehim

Thanks BF and a great job you did too.  I saw the post but didn't realise there was a reply in there.  Must have got caught up in the quote bit sorry. The shot quality?  Well I've only ever owned a single boiler and a HX with a commercial group for a short time, but it's definately up there with them.  I drink milk based drinks mostly, never really took to drinking straight espresso but I do try the odd shot.  I'm happy with the results, but it's hard to tell if the difference I taste is from having used a bigger double synesso ridgeless and also a triple basket in the other machines to using the somewhat smaller PV Lusso baskets. Kinda hard to describe the difference, but does make a lovely coffee, just different to the other machines. I would love a triple basket and a naked handle but I don't think anyone has made any for this machine yet.  Shame.  As BF says it comes with smaller single baskets, but I've never used them, but I do know another PV Lusso user that pulls a double and a single and seems to like the outcome.