A true dinner table story....

[3rdGenCunarder]

You need to pack one of these:

 

 

 

Be careful with those, they aren't meant for champagne. I don't know if we had a weak stopper or an extra-fizzy bottle but we've had the pressure launch one of those things across the room (bounced off the ceiling!) So now we save the cage from the champers and use it over the lever-stopper to help secure it.

 

And I agree with you, diluted with OJ, Pol Axer is more drinkable.

Edited November 13, 2015 by 3rdGenCunarder

[orvil]

You have to use a specialized sparkling wine stopper. The standard wine stopper won't do the job. Good idea. I think I'll bring one in the future.

[Host Hattie]

I never travel without one !

[Adammara]

In our working lives we owned a cookshop, and we sold proper champagne stopper that clips on. We have one and it lives in our essentials case! Far better than the lever type.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Adammara
grammar!

[3rdGenCunarder]

In our working lives we owned a cookshop, and we sold proper champagne stopper that clips on. We have one and it lives in our essentials case! Far better than the lever type.

 

Yes, that's the gadget that I meant. It's stronger than the lever kind.

[Moonraker7]

Fruit rum like guaveaberry rum goes nicely with the fizz!!

[electra2008]

On the crossing from which I disembarked this morning, we solved the problem of what to do with the Pol Acker which Cunard leaves for us by asking one evening if the table (for 8) would like to share it with us. By that time our original full bottle had been supplemented by a half bottle to soothe our feelings over a leak just outside our cabin door. Several other couples contributed their bottles, and we all had bubbly for three nights running. Turns out that we were not the only ones puzzled by how two people could drink a full bottle of sparkling wine, nor the only ones who typically left it in the refrigerator for the steward.

We opened and drank a glass each, and as we drink wine very rarely were quite suprised that it tasted ok. Then forgot it was in the fridge so left 1/2 a bottle.