visually great, lasts a long hot holding tightly! You have to actually say more ?! No, seriously, the pot doing its job to the fullest satisfaction. The cover is completely unscrewed, thus dripping nothing. My coffee or tea is also in the afternoon (morning filled) even tempered absolutely top. The pot itself remains cool. This is now my second Alfi teapot, a coffee, a tea, the pot so I was so convinced that I have bought later directly!