Bella Barista representatives have just come back from, one of the world's largest coffee exhibitions. The International Coffee Exhibition at the fantastic Fiera Milano. Read on to find out what we discovered in this newsletter.

SIC International Coffee Exhibition
Venue: Fiera Milano
Location: Milan, Italy
Start Date: 23-OCT-09
End Date: 27-OCT-09
Official websites:
Fiera Milano
www.sic.fieramilanoexpocts.it

The Exhibition that brings together every aspect of the coffee industry. The SIC Exhibition will show in Host, the International Exhibition of the Hospitality Industry. SIC brings together some of the world's leading coffee producers, importers and roasters, as well as the manufacturers of coffee processing and packaging machines and equipment.

New coffee grinders on order...
The exhibition centre was colossal, and as you can imagine there was a great deal of grinders from many companies showcasing here. With visually appealing eye catching colours and highly styled sleek and sexy Italian designs all on display.

Through are meticulous nature which you have come accustom to over the years with our coffee machine reviews, we shall again be testing a selection of new grinders before launching them on the Bella Barista website.

After listening to Bella customers comments, an area we wanted to focus on was super compact grinders with 54m Commercial burs, Micro adjustment and automatic doaser for under £250 price point.

Please visit Bella Barista soon for more news on the new additions to range coffee grinders.

Dream Coffee Machine.
There was a fine selection of Coffee Machines at the Exhibition. The Bella Barista team were all in agreement that the Duetto (*pictured left) still seems to have the crown as the “Dream Machine” as far as we are concerned.

One positive to come from the exhibition was to meet up with the Ponte Vecchio Srl team. Im sure many of you can remember the Ponte Vecchio Lusso. We have set up a new order for this wonderful lever operated coffee machine. The lusso is great value for money, easy to use and very easy to support and maintain.


The main visual differences we can see for 2010 model are the new colours options in the range. We shall let you know more as soon as we receive delivery and done a full Bella Barista review.

New accessories...
We had a fabulous time looking around the stands with so much to take in. Claudette managed to hand pick some great new accessories and some quirky items that could work great as gift ideas for Christmas or simply as a bit of fun.

Below are some of the items that will be into stock very shortly:


*Must have Christmas present a Mini Porta filter Key ring


*Or How about a specially designed spoon that allows you to stir the coffee without disturbing the Latte Art

Some other great gift ideas that are soon to go live are new Barrista kits, Teflon coated porta filters,
trendy coloured tampers and knock out boxes.






... And what better way to end the day than with a cup of coffee.