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[Baby On A Stick]

Had a very good friend get engaged today, and as we live 300 miles apart Glasto is one one of our few occasions we get together. Given his news, and it is his future Mrs's first Glasto, how do we celebrate with Champagne?

Anyone decanted it before or do we just be very bad and take in a bottle (but of course dispose of it correctly)?

Cheers

[budvar]

Don't even try decanting. Basically if you want to take some you'll have to break the rules and bring in glass. Always a chance it will be spoted in a bag search so maybe just take a mini-bottle so you can give him a glass!

[mouth]

i looked for fizz in a palstic bottle as wanted to take some myself and couldnt find any. boo.

[budvar]

mouth, on 16 June 2010 - 08:03 PM, said:

i looked for fizz in a palstic bottle as wanted to take some myself and couldnt find any. boo.

You might get sparkling wine in plastic but I doubt it. You certainly won't get champagne.

The pressures involved mean that even regular glass isn't enough thus champagne bottles are much thicker and heavier than other wine bottles.

[G1T]

Some makes decant better than others, but they're all the same getting on for half an hour after first opening. It's kinda the point, you don't get that intensity of bubbles with something that will keep its head for long.

They sell champagne up in a bar in Shangri La though, can't remember which, but it's some sweet local somerset catering concern that brings its class to Glasto for a week.

Go there. Live it up.

[Kaybee]

As previous posters have said, it won't decant.  Nor will you be able to keep it really really chilled for any length of time.  So the loveliness of special occasion champagne will be spoiled a bit really.  Try the Shangri La bar, and/or mail order your friends a congratulatory bottle for them to share when they get back from their first glasto together?

[john7]

You can get bottles on site but they're £50 odd quid. I think you can buy ice there though so maybe try your luck with bringing a bottle in and dump it in a bag of ice for a while?

[john7]

You can get bottles on site but they're £50 odd quid. I think you can buy ice there though so maybe try your luck with bringing a bottle in and dump it in a bag of ice for a while?

[john7]

You can get bottles on site but they're £50 odd quid. I think you can buy ice there though so maybe try your luck with bringing a bottle in and dump it in a bag of ice for a while?

[MrMac]

How about investigating an alternative celebration drink?   Could you invent a cocktail for the occasion?

[ohmrsoft]

All of the 'wine bars' sell it by the glass (plastic cup) - I seem to remember it costing around a fiver and it was quite nice.

[shoei67]

The Delux Diner in Shangri-La. IIRC last year £35 a bottle with £10 deposit on the bottle. Quite palatable, nicely chilled.. you have to 'slum it' with paper cups though! I think it was £30 2008 so I'd expect £40 this year. There's at least a couple of champagne threads somewhere...

[siman]

Sure you aint gonna be glassing anyone so I would just smuggle some in! Take a couple of bottles (two ppl carrying!) and fingers crossed you'll get at least one in!

[Baby On A Stick]

Thanks all!!!!

[Barefooted_raver]

I would take two glass bottles of the stuff spread across two people and hidden very well- EG. Rolled up inside the tent/groundsheet and bubble wrapped. As a back up I would also carry a 2l plastic bottle so that in the event of getting caught you can at least try and save some of the bubbly- you would just have to consume it that day to get the best of the fizz lol!

[ShuMart]

What i have done previously is freeze the bottle then when ya leave wrap it in a plastic bag and hide it in the middle of your sleeping bag. was still nice and cold when i drank it but I only live 30 miles from the site.

[zoso70]

Baby On A Stick, on 16 June 2010 - 07:57 PM, said:

Had a very good friend get engaged today, and as we live 300 miles apart Glasto is one one of our few occasions we get together. Given his news, and it is his future Mrs's first Glasto, how do we celebrate with Champagne?

Anyone decanted it before or do we just be very bad and take in a bottle (but of course dispose of it correctly)?

Cheers

hey baby on a stick thats great news - (if its the same friends as we think you mean) i would say try and smuggle some in but after your experience with the security quard last year - maybe not!!! an engagement, a pre wedding meet, and two wedding anniversaries in our group this year - think we all need to decant some! wont look quite the same in a plastic old lemondage bottle thought will it!!!

see ya tuesday x

[Runner]

I'm really surprised that folk are advising you to hide glass bottles in your bag, just so you can say 'cheers' for two mins in a field!?  
Rules state no glass bottles ...
Glass is glass, makes no difference if its £50 champers or £1 Lidl's lager.

As somebody else said why not just put some effort in and make up some wicked cocktails especially for the occasion!? You could even find a champagne based one.

Peace x

[Spindles]

You can also get cans of champagne, I have read elsewhere.  Please don't take glass on site, however good your intentions.

[coolethan]

Spindles, on 18 June 2010 - 06:41 AM, said:

You can also get cans of champagne, I have read elsewhere.  Please don't take glass on site, however good your intentions.

I'm sure Lidl or somewhere like that did canned Prosecco. Champagne is Champagne because it's from Champagne... to my ignorant taste buds these drinks are one and the same... sparkly and dry and dizzying in the afternoon sun.