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How do you make Prosecco Last?

34 replies

BaconAndAvocado · 18/12/2014 18:37

That's it really!

Not sure if you can!

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ElizabethHoover · 18/12/2014 18:37

why?

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Bonsoir · 18/12/2014 18:38

Sparkling wine doesn't keep.

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Lagoonablue · 18/12/2014 18:38

Why would you want to? I like to drink it!

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CarcerDun · 18/12/2014 18:38

Why on earth would you want to?

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insancerre · 18/12/2014 18:39

I don't understand the question

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glentherednosedbattleostrich · 18/12/2014 18:40

Buy lots of bottles?

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OnTheThursdayOfChristmas · 18/12/2014 18:41

Stick a teaspoon in it and leave it in the fridge is what I do.

To keep it cold between glasses.

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PrincessOfChina · 18/12/2014 18:42

I'd just drink it all.

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tkband3 · 18/12/2014 18:43

Add peach juice to make a bellini/orange juice to make a bucks fizz to eke it out further?

To keep it more than one day once it's been opened, put a teaspoon in the top and put it in the fridge - it'll keep for a couple of days.

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insancerre · 18/12/2014 18:44

If you open it at lunch time you could make it last till teatime

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lauren222 · 18/12/2014 18:44

I use a wine stopper (the type that forms a full seal but even that comes off in the fridge sometimes). You can drink it the next day but it does taste a bit flat. If there is a just one glass left I often freeze it and use it for making gravy at a later point.

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TheGirlOnTheLanding · 18/12/2014 19:22

The teaspoon stops it going flat. Or at least slows it down: I can't vouch for more than 2 days as it never lasts any longer than that in our house!

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moonrocket · 18/12/2014 20:42

Only open the Champagne?

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Mostlyjustaluker · 18/12/2014 21:15

You can get a special stopper for sparkling wine.

www.lakeland.co.uk/40329/Bubbly-Bung

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RojaGato · 19/12/2014 05:33

One of those wine seal things, ILs gave us one for xmas last year. Before that Id id the teaspoon thing, which does buy you an extra day.

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FlimwellUnderpass · 19/12/2014 05:59

You can buy rubber things that you put in the top of the bottle and a thing which pumps the air out. It works well. Sorry that is a rubbish description but i do not know a better way to explain it.

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HuevosRancheros · 19/12/2014 18:17

no, you don't want the pumping-air-out one, that'll make it go fla (sucks out the bubbles)t.
You need a special champagne one that just twists to seal

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HuevosRancheros · 19/12/2014 18:18

sorry, brackets in wrong place there.
really should preview first
or save some of the prosecco for later

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TalkinPeace · 19/12/2014 18:35

Drink the cava first?
Seriously
I used to work in the wine trade and we used "bochons" to seal sparkling bottles that were going to be in use for an all day trade tasting

then after a cock up forgot them we realised that decent fizzy left in a cool place undisturbed will take about 6-8 hours to go flat

vacuvin will kill fizzy wine in an instant

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Showy · 19/12/2014 18:38

Ooh is it wine? Somebody has given dh a bottle as a thank you and we're teetotal. We can't give it away, our friends and family weren't interested. I'm thinking of just offering it to passers by.

If you're in NW Norfolk and want a bottle of whatever Prosecco is, please take it from me.

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BeHoHoHove · 19/12/2014 18:40

Xmas Confused Xmas Shock

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Erdelyi · 19/12/2014 18:41

Second the teaspoon in the top. I worked for a fancy wine place once and a Master of Wine passed on that tip.

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iwantavuvezela · 19/12/2014 18:44

Third the teaspoon in the open bottle, the bubbles will keep and will last in the fridge

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EmilyAlice · 19/12/2014 18:45

My bottle of Cava blew its stopper out in the fridge in the middle of last night and woke us up with a bang. Grin
Put it back in the morning snd still fizzy this evening though.
When will Lidl's have their Prosecco in again?

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TalkinPeace · 19/12/2014 18:49

emily
It was at my Lidl today

erdel
did you use a normal wine stopper
rather than one of these thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mDRpPbeWlGBqWZ0YU97BHaA.jpg
as the ones with the clips are the only safe ones for sparkling

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