Warm Champagne in CE
Aug 29, 2017, 10:45 am
#31
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My last several Club Europe flights have all had warm champagne. Only once have I ever witnessed a crew member use their initiative and place some of the small champagne bottles in a container with some ice to keep them chilled.
Aug 29, 2017, 10:46 am
#32
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In my experience some of the best shorthaul crews are far more pro-active about ensuring the Champagne is nicely chilled. I recall chatting with one crew member who I noticed had put several bottles on ice while we were boarding. He also greeted all CE pax by name etc too so was clearly someone with great attention to detail.
No surprise perhaps that crews that seem disinterested are also the ones that serve warm Champagne! (albeit in my limited experience).
No surprise perhaps that crews that seem disinterested are also the ones that serve warm Champagne! (albeit in my limited experience).
Aug 29, 2017, 11:59 am
#33
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I kept thinking "wow, I guess I just keep getting bad crews" when I read the first few replies. Then I saw some of the others, and see that my experience with mostly lazy/disinterested/"You should know I'm far too good to be in this job" crews seems not to be completely out of the norm.
Aug 29, 2017, 1:30 pm
#35
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Aug 29, 2017, 1:55 pm
#36
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Aug 29, 2017, 2:55 pm
#37
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Aug 30, 2017, 7:03 am
#39
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Agree, although apart from some new products such as Moet Ice, which is a sweeter Champagne designed to by served with ice and fruit. It is utterly grim by the way though. Aimed primarily at the nightclub market for people with more money than sense and a lack of taste.
Aug 30, 2017, 7:08 am
#40
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Aug 30, 2017, 7:58 am
#41
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Has happened three times for me, always on the "short" band flights with the small bottles. On the last two times, very good crew wisely asked if I'd be wanting another so they could stick the next one in to be chilled. Which was nice, but it means the bottles are normally being stored somewhere warm/ambient.
Aug 30, 2017, 8:48 am
#42
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On a separate note, once I was in a lounge (don't remember where) and a group of Russian tourists were not happy about the bubbles available in there. So off they went to buy some Clicquot at the Duty free, came back in the lounge and drunk it with ice.
Heaven Forbid!
Aug 30, 2017, 1:25 pm
#43
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Just this afternoon Mrs PtF and I were flying QR F AMM DOH (on a 15 month old 777 - but that's another story). The pre-flight rose champagne we were served was literally undrinkable - it hadn't been chilled at all; it was at room temperature. In QR's defence the CSD advised that they have to lock all alcohol away until boarding is in progress; giving them no time to chill the champagne for pre-departure drinks.