Sage Oracle Touch

Premium look, feel and taste ; Makes consistently excellent espressos ; Eight coffee presets, and you can add your own ; Just like a pro machine but without the need for pro skills

Big and heavy ; Milk frother can be inconsistent

Sage The Oracle Touch is like a café-grade espresso maker and milk frother made smaller and (a bit) more affordable, for your kitchen. Its genius is that it performs like a professional machine but uses technology to remove the need for guess-work or...

Great espresso with hardly any effort ; Automatic grind and tamp works well ; Automatic milk frothing

Manual controls are limited ; Expensive ; Water tank awkward to get at

It produces vastly better coffee than any bean-to-cup machine I’ve tested – at any price – and it produces as good a coffee as we’ve had from any consumer-class manual espresso machine. Just don’t blame me if it makes you end up craving a fully manual...