Champagne?

[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]

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

[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]

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

[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]

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

[crow]

DON'T bring glass on site... you CAN'T dispose of it safely, any bin you throw it in get's dealt with by the recycling crew (yes EVERYTHING gets hand sorted in the recycling area!) and those bags are often compacted first on the lorries so you are send shards of glass someone's way.

I've decanted for the last two years...

What you need to do it this...

buy 2 (or multiples of two... bottles) get a 1.5 litre coke bottle. Super chill the champagne, not frozen, but very cold. This stops it fizzing as much, hot things fizz more.

Then decent very slowly with a funnel. Put cap on and put back in fridge. Ours has been fine every year with still plenty of fizz.

The key is to have as little 'air space' as possible in the bottle - the more you have the more fizz you lose.

But again, please do not bring any glass on site, it's a nightmare when you are working the bins and you grab some filthy broken glass... (and the poor cows etc.)

Edited June 18, 2010 by crow

[tilt]

If you decant it just before you get on site it should stay fizzy for quite a while, keeping it cold would be more difficult

[farewellandgoodnight]

As people have said already, please don't be tempted to smuggle glass onto site. As no matter how good your intentions common sense often goes out of the window after a few drinks you don’t want to be responsible for getting broken glass everywhere. The rules state no glass so that means no glass.

You can get fizz in cans fairly readily or as mentioned earlier there are bars on site if you want the real thing. Best bet is get a few cans and enjoy your celebration without causing any harm to the animals or the farm.

[budvar]

Personally didn't say the OP should break the rules, just that that's what they might have to do if they want to bring champagne.

How about if they keep the bottle and take it away with them afterwards. I'd buy the "it's incredibly wrong to bring glass on site because it might smash" argument if it hadn't already been brought up that you can buy bottles in shangri-la i.e. it's condoned by GFL in certain places.

Either way I personally wouldn't bring glass. I decant everything into plastic bottles, which is fine for vodka and WKD but no champagne.

[drewsstrat]

Yes prosecco is Italian fizz and it was available from lidl last year in cans. No sight of it yet this year