Plastic Champagne Bottles

[Rosstitute]

Hi folks, looking for advice here...people who know me, dont tell Nicole!

Got together with my Girlfriend at Glastonbury last year and still going strong, so being the big romantic that I am (I really aint normally) I was going to maybe have a celebratory drink with the missus to mark our 1 year anniversary. Anyone know where I can get hold of a plastic champagne bottle? With the issues around glass and all that, Im looking for a greener and safer alternative!

Cheers

[cejx]

Hi folks, looking for advice here...people who know me, dont tell Nicole!

Got together with my Girlfriend at Glastonbury last year and still going strong, so being the big romantic that I am (I really aint normally) I was going to maybe have a celebratory drink with the missus to mark our 1 year anniversary. Anyone know where I can get hold of a plastic champagne bottle? With the issues around glass and all that, Im looking for a greener and safer alternative!

Cheers

[cejx]

Hi folks, looking for advice here...people who know me, dont tell Nicole!

Got together with my Girlfriend at Glastonbury last year and still going strong, so being the big romantic that I am (I really aint normally) I was going to maybe have a celebratory drink with the missus to mark our 1 year anniversary. Anyone know where I can get hold of a plastic champagne bottle? With the issues around glass and all that, Im looking for a greener and safer alternative!

Cheers

Edited April 18, 2011 by cejx

[Rosstitute]

thanks for your reply...being 12 months into the future, I was hoping an alternative may have came onto the market - that stuff tastes like I imagine cats piss would

Edited April 18, 2011 by Rosstitute

[Madyokel]

As your festie folk come to the efest meet at the Brothers bar and we will all toast your health.

[cejx]

thanks for your reply...being 12 months into the future, I was hoping an alternative may have came onto the market - that stuff tastes like I imagine cats piss would

[Rosstitute]

actually, its not bad! I've had much much worse! I advise you however to drink it as cold as possible! Failing that, M+S do cans of cocktails now, so maybe take a couple of plastic martini glasses and have a couple of cosmopolitans instead.

[ukmountie]

Not sure if it will help, but have a look at ASK

It won't help if you want that satisfying pop of the cork, but it will mean you're drinking Champers. Id suggest looking for the strongest plastic bottle you can find if you do this. Pellegrino bottles seem about the best I've seen. And congrats on the anniversary.

(From a post by Michael

There are some wines in cans but I have never seen a sparkling one. I would suggest that you decant it into a plastic bottle like this:

Get a clean bottle that has held sparkling mineral water (for strength under pressure).

Chill the sparkling wine for a couple of hours in the freezer (but don't let it freeze!)

Carefully open the wine and SLOWLY fill the plastic bottle.

Screw the cap tightly on the plastic bottle.

Keep the bottle in the fridge until you need it (within 2 days of bottling).

By doing this while the wine is chilled you are keeping most of the fizz in the wine. When the wine reaches normal temperature the fizz will be maximised.

[StoneCircle]

Take her for a champagne breakfast at Malinkeys, start the day in style!!

http://malinkeys.com/menu.htm

[serafina]

Not sure if it will help, but have a look at ASK

It won't help if you want that satisfying pop of the cork, but it will mean you're drinking Champers. Id suggest looking for the strongest plastic bottle you can find if you do this. Pellegrino bottles seem about the best I've seen. And congrats on the anniversary.

(From a post by Michael

There are some wines in cans but I have never seen a sparkling one. I would suggest that you decant it into a plastic bottle like this:

Get a clean bottle that has held sparkling mineral water (for strength under pressure).

Chill the sparkling wine for a couple of hours in the freezer (but don't let it freeze!)

Carefully open the wine and SLOWLY fill the plastic bottle.

Screw the cap tightly on the plastic bottle.

Keep the bottle in the fridge until you need it (within 2 days of bottling).

By doing this while the wine is chilled you are keeping most of the fizz in the wine. When the wine reaches normal temperature the fizz will be maximised.

[payneruk]

There was a Champagne bar there last year. They even kept our bottle behind the bar so when ever we passed we could pick up a fresh glass!

[Bender]

Oh glastoearth is says that some of the venues in and around shangra la sell champagne, and cocktails, might be a better idea?

[redmosquito]

Just to confirm what Stoneciecle said. Malinkeys the restraunt do bottles of champers for an extra special treat.

[LusciousLucy]

I have just been working at the biggest wine competition on the planet and there was not one plastic champers bottle entered although there were a couple of wines in plastic bottles which was nice to see. Once the winners are announced I will be able to tell you those entrants are/were. Quite simply, sadly though, with the prestige of champagne and such little call for plastic bubbly bottles other than from festy folk, there likely wont be much coming onto the world stage anytime soon.

There were some bubbly in cans entered too but not from the UK and not available yet over here.

This does prove though that there ARE companies doing bubbly in cans...we just have to wait for the importers to bite and buy in.

[ampersand]

ross, they're talking about lidl prosecco cans. which don't exist anymore. much like lots of lidl's shit that they discontinued. it's shite now!

just sneak a glass bottle in like i did in 08!

[LusciousLucy]

And to be honest, as a colleague at the wine competition pointed out and is so right, its JUST a drink at the end of the day. Just because there is prestige and added value on the fizz and a vague sense of occasion placed on the beverage style it is held up to the level it is. We nommed down oysters and champagne in the sun the other week and it was treated like any normal picnic...which it was...food and drink. Simples.

If you want occasion and celebration, you would be better off buying and decanting the finest vodka on the planet (which happens to be English too, Chase Distillery - made from the leftover potatoes from Tyrrells crisps and won the latest international competition for vodka - and available now at Sainsburys!) and making yourself a fine cocktail and raising a glass to the finest English festival instead of worrying yourself about overpriced generally not that tasty French fizz.

Please do excuse my somewhat blase approach...I have just spent the last 2 weeks drinking pretty much nothing but prestige vintage bubbly every evening after work due to the bottles being open and would only be thrown away the next day. The fizz being made in the UK currently is much nicer anyway (Ridgeview, Nyetimber, Camel Valley etc, made from the same grapes as the Champagne region and pretty much the same soil too).

Maybe one day soon one of the vineywards more local to the G could be talked into creating a line of Festival Fizz in plastic bottles? I am going to the English Wine Producers Trade Tasting in a week or two...I shall mention it there.

Edited April 23, 2011 by LusciousLucy

[Bisque]

It's my friends birthday the day after the dreaded Monday. I'd like to organise something different for him & the rest of our group to do on the Saturday as there aren't many bands playing during the day we particularly want to see (or go out of our way to see) before Friendly Fires.

I have the Malinkeyswebsite so should I just give them a call & tell them my budget & time of arrival? Any help on this would make a brilliant day for us (started a thread /index.php?showtopic=160088&st=0&p=3565695&fromsearch=1&#entry3565695">here about the Saturday before I saw/remembered this thread).