InterContinental Singapore launches Champagne drive-through
InterContinental Singapore positions itself as the ‘Home of Champagne’. It offers one of the largest hotel Champagne collections of any hotel with over 200 bottles, and is home to an official caveau for the Embassy of the Confrérie du Sabre d’Or.
Now the luxury hotel is offering a novel way to buy Champagne. Visitors and guests drive into the hotel’s cobbled courtyard, order a bottle of Champagne from a curated menu and wait a few minutes for the butler to bring their selection in a two-tier gift box complete with two flutes or caviar.
According to general manager Andreas Kraemer, the festive drive-through is “the logical next step” in pushing the hotel’s Champagne credentials further.
The menu lists more than 30 Champagnes, curated in collaboration with sommeliers of Park 90, a Singapore-based wine club that maintains an outpost at the hotel.
Kraemer says that the offerings are not limited to commercial Champagnes. “It’s actually the smaller Champagne houses because our guests are coming to try new things,” he says. The list includes Frederic Savart, JL Vergnon, Dhondt-Grellet, Chartogne-Taillet and more, a testament to Singapore’s growing Champagne-savvy clientele.