No question, the coffee tastes great - but this pleasure is short-lived. I had this machine for about 2 years of ownership. Unfortunately I had to part with the DeLonghi because eventually the milk froth function was broken and shortly afterwards the machine entirely gave up the ghost me after 2 years. In my circle of friends have made 3 similar experience with the exact same model. Since I did not want to forego the advantages of a fully automatic coffee machine, I was after a long search for the Bosch TES50358DE (camp = 1638 & creative = 19454 & creativeASIN = B005GVEQEE & Linkcode = as2 & tag = bravo05-21) decided in the same price segment. I am very happy and have for more than one year no signs of any defect.