• The best rated Sage Barista Touch Impress now has a cold espresso mode
• It promises rich, rounded cold espresso for cocktails and ice cream targets
• We will soon test the new machine to see how it compares to its rivals

Sage Barista Touch Impress (known as Breville Barista Touch Impress in the US and Australia) has long had a place in our guide to the best espresso machines, and now it is even more versatile thanks to a new cold espresso mode that should be ideal for producing ice cream and coffee-based cocktails (rather than a shot of hot espresso. ice cream).

The Sage Barista touch impresses with cold extraction has all the other features we appreciated in the original machine, which makes the extraction consistently good espresso as simple as possible.