The pot is beautiful and noble in design. It drips nothing. From the hot maintenance capacity I'm disappointed more than 2 hours it keeps the drink not warm. After one hour, the coffee is still hot, then the coffee is only still warm and lukewarm after 2 hours. Too bad. From a jug I would have expected more. The jugs that we had been in use, Although unfortunately have dropped, but kept much longer the coffee to hot temperature.