La Marzocco Linea Cappuccino Cups & Saucers – Black – Set of 2
☕ The Classic La Marzocco Café Cup – Dressed in Black
Bring a little of the La Marzocco café experience to your own espresso setup.
This set of 2 La Marzocco Linea Cappuccino Cups with matching saucers in Black combines the unmistakable Linea design with a practical:
180 ml / 6 oz capacity
Perfect for:
☕ Cappuccino
🤎 Flat white
🥛 Cortado-style milk drinks
🍫 Espresso with a little extra milk
🧪 Cappuccino tasting and training
The black finish gives the classic La Marzocco cup a more understated, contemporary look while retaining the traditional thick-walled café-cup character.
Each WB.coffee set contains:
2 × Linea Black Cappuccino Cups
2 × Matching Saucers
The original black cup is La Marzocco part:
V091/BLACK.
📋 Quick Menu
- ☕ Genuine La Marzocco drinkware
- 👥 Set of 2 cappuccino cups
- 🍽️ 2 matching saucers included
- ⚫ Black Linea finish
- 📏 180 ml / 6 oz capacity
- 🇮🇹 Classic Italian café-cup design
- 🔥 Thick porcelain-style construction for thermal stability
- 🥛 Ideal for cappuccino & flat white
- 🎨 Excellent for latte art
- 🏠 Perfect with Linea Mini & Linea Micra
- ☕ Equally suitable with any espresso machine
- 👃 CoffeeNose serving tips
- 🫘 WB.coffee espresso pairings
- 🎓 Home Barista & Masterclass cross-sells
⚫ Linea Black
La Marzocco's Linea cup is one of those pieces of coffee equipment that instantly feels familiar.
The shape belongs in:
☕ Specialty cafés
🏨 Hotels
🍽️ Restaurants
🏠 Serious home espresso setups
and the black version gives the classic cup a more contemporary appearance.
La Marzocco continues to list Linea Cappuccino Cup in Black – V091/BLACK in its current cup collection.
☕ 180 ml / 6 oz – A Proper Cappuccino Size
The traditional Linea cappuccino format holds:
180 ml / 6 oz
including its matching saucer.
For us, this is a much more useful cappuccino size than the enormous cups sometimes sold as “cappuccino”.
A balanced starting point could be:
☕ Espresso
36–45 g
plus
🥛 Textured milk
enough to finish around 150–170 ml
depending on your espresso recipe and preferred coffee-to-milk balance.
👃 CoffeeNose – Bigger Isn't Automatically Better
A cappuccino is not supposed to be a bowl of hot milk containing a distant memory of espresso.
With a 180 ml cup, you can maintain a much better relationship between:
☕ Espresso intensity
🥛 Milk sweetness
👅 Texture
🌡️ Temperature
That is especially useful with specialty coffee, where you actually want to taste the espresso through the milk.
🥛 Excellent for Latte Art
The rounded cappuccino format gives you enough surface area for:
❤️ Heart
🌷 Tulip
🌿 Rosetta
without requiring half a litre of milk.
The cup size works especially well with:
☕ Double espresso
+
🥛 Fine, glossy microfoam.
A good latte-art cup should help the pour.
It should not force the recipe.
🔥 Why Traditional Café Cups Are Thick
Thin glass can be lovely for sensory coffee.
Cappuccino is different.
A traditional café-style cup uses more material to help:
🔥 Retain heat
🖐️ Feel substantial in the hand
🥛 Support milk drinks
☕ Provide a familiar espresso-bar experience
La Marzocco's Linea cups are built around that classic café aesthetic.
The cup itself becomes part of the service.
🇮🇹 La Marzocco Heritage
The Linea name is inseparable from the development of modern specialty coffee.
La Marzocco describes the commercial Linea Classic as a machine that has helped define cafés, roasters and specialty-coffee businesses since the early 1990s.
The cup carries the same visual language:
simple,
functional,
recognisable.
You do not need to own a Linea espresso machine to use one.
But next to a:
⚫ Black Linea Mini
⚫ Linea Micra
⚫ Linea Classic
⚫ KB90
⚫ GS3
it looks particularly at home.
🏠 Perfect with Linea Mini & Linea Micra
Building a complete La Marzocco coffee corner?
Combine the black cup set with:
☕ Linea Mini
☕ Linea Micra
⚙️ La Marzocco Pico grinder
⚖️ Espresso scale
🥛 Milk pitcher
🫘 Fresh WB.coffee espresso
for a coherent setup from:
machine
to
cup.
The cup is only half the cappuccino.
For good microfoam, use a pitcher that gives you enough control over:
🌪️ Vortex
💨 Air incorporation
🌡️ Temperature
🎨 Pouring
Good matches include:
Ilsa Evolution
For controlled steaming and a strong vortex.
Ilsa Revolution Split
For advanced service where you want to divide milk accurately into two drinks.
🚿 Rhino Mini Rinser Spinjet
Making multiple cappuccinos?
A pitcher rinser quickly becomes one of those pieces of equipment you wonder how you lived without.
The Rhino Mini Rinser Spinjet helps:
💧 Rinse pitchers quickly
🥛 Remove residual milk
⚡ Improve workflow
🧼 Keep the coffee station cleaner
Particularly useful for:
🏠 Serious home bars
🏢 Offices
☕ Small hospitality setups.
Our first choice for a traditional cappuccino-style profile:
CN – Chocolaty & Nutty
One of our popular HoReCa coffees with a flavour direction of:
🍫 Milk chocolate
🌰 Nuts
🍮 Caramel
🍯 Brown sugar
🍰 Fudge
Exactly the kind of espresso that remains clearly present in textured milk.
Prefer something a little softer?
VC – Vanilla & Caramel
Think:
🌼 Vanilla
🍮 Caramel
🍯 Sweetness
🥛 Smooth milk integration
A natural cappuccino coffee.
For a richer coffee-and-chocolate direction:
The Chocolatier's Brew
A 100% Arabica blend with notes around:
🍫 Chocolate
🌰 Hazelnut
🍮 Praline
🍇 Dried fruit
🌼 Vanilla
🍯 Caramel
Especially satisfying as:
☕ Cappuccino
🤎 Flat white.
🫘 Try Something More Modern
A cappuccino does not always have to taste like chocolate and nuts.
Experiment with:
🍓 FJ – Fruity & Juicy
🌍 A seasonal single origin
🍊 A washed Bourbon
🌸 A more aromatic espresso
and discover how fruit acidity interacts with milk sweetness.
Some combinations are fantastic.
Some are educational.
Both are useful. 👃
👃 CoffeeNose Cappuccino Starting Recipe
A useful starting point:
🫘 Coffee
18 g
☕ Espresso
36–42 g
🥛 Milk
Texture only what you actually need.
🌡️ Milk temperature
Aim for sweetness rather than maximum heat.
Overheated milk loses sweetness and becomes less pleasant.
Final drink
Approximately 150–170 ml
inside the 180 ml cup.
Then adjust according to:
👅 Espresso strength
🥛 Milk choice
☕ Coffee profile
❤️ Personal preference.
👃 CoffeeNose Tip – Warm the Cup, Don't Cook It
A cold heavy cup can take heat from the drink.
A cup that is painfully hot can do the opposite and make the cappuccino unpleasant.
The goal is:
comfortably warm.
If your espresso machine has a cup warmer, keep the cups on top and let the machine do the work.
La Marzocco's commercial equipment similarly uses cup-warming systems to keep espresso and cappuccino cups at an appropriate serving temperature.
🍽️ Why the Saucer Still Matters
A saucer is not merely decorative.
It gives you somewhere for:
🥄 Coffee spoon
🍫 Small chocolate
🍪 Biscuit
💧 The occasional drip
and turns the drink into a more deliberate service moment.
At home?
Optional.
When serving guests?
Much nicer.
👥 Set of 2
This WB.coffee set includes:
2 × Black Linea Cappuccino Cups
2 × Matching Saucers
Perfect for:
❤️ Coffee for two
🏠 Home espresso setups
🎁 Gifts
🧪 Side-by-side coffee tasting
and much more useful for a home bar than buying an entire commercial box.
🧪 Use Them for Coffee Comparison
Two matching cups are ideal for controlled tasting.
For example:
Cup 1
🌰 CN – Chocolaty & Nutty
versus
Cup 2
🍮 VC – Vanilla & Caramel
Keep:
☕ Espresso recipe
🥛 Milk quantity
🌡️ Temperature
the same.
Now the main variable is:
the coffee.
That is a much better way to discover what you actually like.
🎓 Espresso Essentials for the Home Barista
Beautiful cups are easy.
The difficult bit is making the coffee inside them consistently good.
Join Espresso Essentials for the Home Barista at Amsterdam Coffee Lab in Weesp and learn:
⚙️ Grinder adjustment
⚖️ Dose
💧 Yield
🌀 Distribution
🔘 Tamping
⏱️ Extraction
🥛 Milk steaming
🎨 Latte-art foundations
👅 Taste
🧼 Cleaning
The goal isn't just to make coffee that looks good.
It should taste good too.
🎓 Barista Masterclass
Already making respectable cappuccinos?
Go further in the Barista Masterclass.
Explore:
☕ Espresso optimisation
🥛 Advanced milk texture
🎨 Pouring control
🌡️ Temperature
🫘 Coffee selection
💧 Water
👅 Sensory evaluation
because a better cup will not fix badly extracted espresso.
✅ Perfect For
These Linea cups are ideal for:
✔️ Cappuccino
✔️ Flat white
✔️ Home baristas
✔️ La Marzocco owners
✔️ Linea Mini setups
✔️ Linea Micra setups
✔️ Specialty cafés
✔️ Restaurants & hospitality
✔️ Espresso tastings
✔️ Coffee gifts
✔️ Anyone who likes classic Italian café drinkware
🔧 Technical Specifications
Product: La Marzocco Linea Cappuccino Cup & Saucer
Colour: Black
WB.coffee configuration: Set of 2
Quantity: 2 cups + 2 saucers
Capacity per cup: 180 ml / 6 oz
Manufacturer: La Marzocco
Manufacturer reference: V091/BLACK
Style: Classic Linea cappuccino cup
Use: Cappuccino, flat white and small milk-based coffee drinks
❤️ Why We Like Them at WB.coffee
There are more modern cups.
There are thinner cups.
There are cups designed specifically to manipulate aroma.
But sometimes you simply want:
a proper cappuccino cup.
The Linea has the weight and visual language of a real espresso bar.
In black it becomes a little less traditional and a little more:
⚫ understated
✨ contemporary
☕ specialty-coffee bar
while still clearly belonging to La Marzocco.
We especially like the:
180 ml size.
It encourages you to make a cappuccino where:
coffee is still an ingredient you can taste.
Rather than burying a perfectly good espresso under 300 ml of milk.
CoffeeNose verdict 👃
Use good coffee.
Steam less milk than you think.
Keep it sweet.
And stop steaming when the texture is right—not when the pitcher becomes too hot to hold.
Then pour it into something that feels like it belongs in a coffee bar.
This cup does.
📍 La Marzocco & Specialty Coffee in Weesp
At WB.coffee / Amsterdam Coffee Lab in Weesp, combine your La Marzocco cups with:
☕ La Marzocco espresso machines
⚙️ Espresso grinders
⚖️ Precision scales
🥛 Professional milk pitchers
🚿 Pitcher rinsers
🧼 Espresso-machine cleaning products
🫘 Fresh WB.coffee espresso blends & single origins
🎓 Home Barista workshops
🧪 Barista Masterclasses
👅 Espresso tastings
🥡 Specialty coffee from the tasting menu @ Amsterdam Coffee Lab
The machine matters.
The grinder matters.
The coffee matters.
And yes—the cup is part of the experience too.
