Originally Posted by Passmethesickbag

As frequent visitors will know, whereas the good people in the T5 lounge have long since figured out that the electronic chill buckets don't work, and provide their own ice buckets, their colleagues in T3 haven't. I once spoke to a manager who acknowledged that it was a shame to serve Taittinger Prelude luke warm ("fart warm" as we say in Sweden), but that they can't add ice to the electronic chill buckets without "ruining them".

Well, my local Sainsburys is selling Nicolas Feuillatte at £20 including a light-weight small ice bucket, so I brought it here, grabbed a bottle of Prelude, filled it with some ice and some Highland Spring water and, hey presto, I'm enjoying my Taittinger at the temperature that the Good Lord intended! The waitresses aren't batting an eyebrow, so I'm probably not the first one.