Vertuo Origins Coffee (230 ml · 7.8 fl oz) Gran Lungo (150 ml · 5.1 fl oz) Discontinued
Café de Cuba
A dark roasted coffee with impassioned tobacco and smoky wood aromas that speak to its origins.
Café de Cuba is a Nespresso Vertuo capsule with an intensity of 8. It is no longer listed in any market we track.
Price history
Filled markers are recorded price or stock changes per capsule; hollow markers are additional archived sightings that confirmed the same local price. A line spans only dates on which the listing kept being seen, gaps mean continuity is not established, and dashed stretches are periods observed out of stock.
Converted to $ at the reference rate of each observation's own date, so every market is what it would have cost you on the day it was read.
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Years on sale
Calendar years in which we recorded this capsule on sale in at least one market. An empty covered year means no sale was recorded in the markets and sources we cover, not proof that it was absent from every country.
- 2017 on sale
- 2018 on sale
- 2019 on sale
- 2020 on sale
- 2021 on sale
- 2022 on sale
- 2023 on sale
- 2024 on sale
- 2025 on sale
- 2026 not seen
on sale not seen · seen in 9 years
Taste profile
- Intensity
- 8/13
- Bitterness
- 4/5
- Acidity
- 1/5
- Roast
- 4/5
- Body
- 4/5
A dark roasted, intense character of this coffee echoes with the passionate rhythms of authentic Cuban culture and boasts powerful and delightful smoky notes of wood and tobacco leaves.
Flavour notes
About this coffee
Origin
100% Cuban Arabica from the Eastern part of Cuban island. With fertile soil and ideal climate conditions, the region offers an excellent coffee growing environment.
Roasting
To enhance the potential of the beans and highlight their authenticity, Nespresso experts applied sophisticated split roasting technic. One half of the beans was roasted for a shorter time to a lighter colour to bring out all the unique flavours and specific aromas of the coffee.
The second half was roasted for a longer time to a much darker colour to create a strong body with velvety texture and intense rich flavours.
How to prepare it
Preparations described for this capsule in public sources, each linked to where it came from. They are suggestions, not instructions from the manufacturer.
short espresso-style cup
35 ml · 1.2 fl oz
Stop the extraction at about 35 ml for an espresso-style cup.
Common questions
What is the intensity of Café de Cuba?
Café de Cuba has an intensity of 8 on the manufacturer's scale and is intended for a Coffee (230 ml) cup size.
Which machines does Café de Cuba fit?
Café de Cuba is a Vertuo capsule and fits Vertuo machines only. Vertuo and Original capsules are physically different and are not interchangeable.
Is Café de Cuba a capsule or a coffee pod?
Both words describe the same thing. The manufacturer calls them capsules, and English-language stores also say coffee pods; Café de Cuba is one sealed portion of ground coffee either way. This site says "capsule" throughout only for consistency — searching for "Café de Cuba pods" and "Café de Cuba capsules" will find the same coffee.
What does Café de Cuba taste like?
The published flavour notes for Café de Cuba are fruity, intense, roasted, smoky, smoky notes, smoky wood.
What cup size is Café de Cuba brewed at?
Storefronts list Café de Cuba at more than one size: Coffee (230 ml), Gran Lungo (150 ml).
Can Café de Cuba be brewed shorter and stronger for a milk drink?
On Vertuo machines with Coffee Creations the same capsule brews a shorter, stronger cup, intended as the base for iced and milk drinks. It is an extra mode, not the only one these machines have: a normal cup is still one press. On Vertuo Next, Pop, Pop+, Lattissima and Creatista you turn it on by pressing the coffee button twice — it blinks turquoise, the mode applies to that cup only, and the machine goes back to brewing normally afterwards; Vertuo Up has a dedicated Coffee Creations button, and there the mode stays on until the machine is switched off. The size steps down one place: an Espresso capsule brews as a Ristretto (25 ml), Double Espresso and Gran Lungo brew as an Espresso (40 ml), and a Mug capsule brews as a Double Espresso (80 ml). The machine refuses the mode for Ristretto, Cold Brew Style and Carafe capsules — the mode switches off again and the barcode size is brewed — and Nespresso does not recommend it for Alto or the Coffee+ range. In the rare case that the double press does nothing, try updating the machine’s firmware from the Nespresso app. Older Vertuo models, including Vertuo Plus, brew only the size written in the barcode.
When was Café de Cuba on sale?
We recorded Café de Cuba on sale between 2017 and 2025. Years without a record are shown as gaps; they mean our covered sources did not confirm a sale, not that absence in every country is proven.
What is similar to Café de Cuba?
The closest matches we hold are Stormio Go, Stormio, SELECTION VINTAGE 2014, scored on cup size, flavour notes, intensity and the published sensory profile.
Can you still buy Café de Cuba?
Café de Cuba is no longer sold in any market we track; it was last seen on 16 May 2026. Remaining stock sometimes appears on marketplace resellers.
Price in every market
Published retail price in each market. The comparison column converts them to one currency so they can be read side by side.
| Country | Pack price | Per capsule | Per capsule ($) | Stock | Store |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Czechia no longer sold last price seen May 2025 | 239.00 Kč / 10 capsules | 23.90 Kč | $1.11 | Last priced May 2025 | Open store for Czechia (new tab) |
| Australia no longer sold last price seen Nov 2021 | $18.00 / 10 capsules | $1.80 | $1.32 | Last priced Nov 2021 | Open store for Australia (new tab) |
| Canada + tax no longer sold last price seen Aug 2022 | $16.80 / 10 capsules | $1.68 | $1.48 | Last priced Aug 2022 | Open store for Canada (new tab) |
| Mexico no longer sold last price seen Dec 2023 | $245.00 / 10 capsules | $24.50 | $1.51 | Last priced Dec 2023 | — |
| Ireland no longer sold last price seen Dec 2023 | €14.90 / 10 capsules | €1.49 | $1.73 | Last priced Dec 2023 | Open store for Ireland (new tab) |
| United States + tax no longer sold last price seen Jan 2021 | $20.00 / 10 capsules | $2.00 | $2.00 | Last priced Jan 2021 | Open store for United States (new tab) |
| United Kingdom no longer sold last price seen Jul 2021 | £15.00 / 10 capsules | £1.50 | $2.03 | Last priced Jul 2021 | Open store for United Kingdom (new tab) |
| Portugal no longer sold last price seen May 2024 | €20.00 / 10 capsules | not comparable | — | Last priced May 2024 | Open store for Portugal (new tab) |
| France no longer sold | — | — | — | — | Open store for France (new tab) |
Rows marked “no longer sold” show the last price we recorded before the listing was withdrawn — sometimes years ago. They are excluded from the averages and rankings.
4 more listings in markets already shown
The same coffee is often sold in one country under more than one listing: the current product page, an older catalogue URL, or a withdrawn pack size kept for its price history. The table above shows the one a shopper would buy today; the rest are here.
| Country | Pack price | Per capsule | Per capsule ($) | Stock | Store |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States + tax no longer sold last price seen Dec 2018 Café de Cuba | $20.00 / 10 capsules | $2.00 | $2.00 | Last priced Dec 2018 | Open store for United States (new tab) |
| United States + tax no longer sold last price seen May 2026 Café de Cuba | $22.50 / 10 capsules | $2.25 | $2.25 | Last priced May 2026 | Open store for United States (new tab) |
| Australia no longer sold Café de Cuba | — | — | — | — | Open store for Australia (new tab) |
| France no longer sold last price seen Dec 2023 Café de Cuba | €21.00 / 10 capsules | not comparable | — | Last priced Dec 2023 | Open store for France (new tab) |