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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Mina Holland

Don’t bottle it! Why now is the perfect time to try wine from a keg, barrel, box or tin

Wine on tap at Padella’s restaurant in east London
Wine on tap at Padella’s restaurant in east London. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

I am standing at the bar at the Canton Arms in Stockwell, south London, deliberating over the options on tap. There is a friulano from Veneto, a Provençal rosé, a beaujolais villages …

Yes, it’s not just pints they pull here, but neat little glasses of wine from kegs fitted underneath the bar, using the same chilling system as the lagers and ales. I go for a glass of the rosé. It’s cold, peach‑pale and delicious: everything I want from a glass of wine in summer.

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