Champagne flutes and saucers are so yesterday. As of this week, one of North London's loveliest pubs is serving a very special Champagne in tankards instead.
As The Red Lion and Sun's publican Heath Ball explains, the whole thing came about after one of his friends shared an article about a pub in Adelaide, Australia, that serves Krug by the schooner and sells the most Krug in the country.
After doing his own research Heath discovered that Winston Churchill used to drink Pol Roger from a tankard which got him thinking. So he got in touch with the folks at the Champagne house, secured a load of special Pol Roger tankards from them and is now selling it in his Highgate pub.
"To make it accessible, we need to offer it at a reasonable price," he told us. "Therefore, we’re applying a very minimal cash markup, selling a bottle for what you would pay online, and the tankards will be served with a 175ml pour instead of the traditional 125ml in a flute. That’s £55 for 175ml or £230 for a bottle (I've seen it on other lists priced over £400)."
"I probably won’t make any money from this," he adds, "but life isn’t solely about money; it’s important to have a bit of fun and I absolutely love the idea of serving champagne from a tankard."
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Where is it? 25 North Rd, Highgate, London N6 4BE
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