# Champagne Emergency!?! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 12, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886 "2006-12-12T22:56:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/41 "2006-12-13T17:46:52Z")
You know, the champagne _got_ to you from France somehow, right? I doubt it was hand carried, each bottle with its own attendant, on a little rowboat, was it? It was probably shipped in those wine bottle shippers by air or by sea. I’m sure they wouldn’t send it some way that they’d have significant losses. If they can do it, you ought to be able to too. (The styrofoam box inserts they had at the UPS Store in Napa Valley, that I couldn’t use because of South Carolina’s ridiculous liquor laws, seemed very good.) ---
**Author:** ![xiix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d6d6ee/32.png) [@xiix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xiix)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/42 "2006-12-13T18:55:26Z")
NaturalBlondChap: That is an incredibly helpful story, thank you! I am very fond of Krug and I imagine atleast one of the bottles will be from that house. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/43 "2006-12-13T21:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=xiix] I also labelled this thread ‘champagne EMERGENCY’ which, dire though my situation may be, was also intensional hyperbole. [/QUOTE] I opened it thinking it would be about the chances of putting your eye out when opening the bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/44 "2006-12-13T22:02:47Z")
Is vintage champagne really that much cheaper in China than in Aruba? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/45 "2006-12-13T22:27:26Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] I opened it thinking it would be about the chances of putting your eye out when opening the bottle. [/QUOTE] I opened it somewhat fascinated (and impressed) that the OP had not gone with “Champagne Jam!!?!” ---
**Author:** ![xiix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d6d6ee/32.png) [@xiix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xiix)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/46 "2006-12-14T00:03:24Z")
Really Not All That Bright: While Fukang holds a very special place deep beneath the cockles of my heart, I live in Toronto, Canada. There are technically no 5 star hotels in Aruba and a small population and so I think finding vintage champagne would be tricky. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/47 "2006-12-14T00:42:14Z")
Hmmm, for some reason I was thinking you already had the bottles in your cellar or had already ordered them from your local liquor shop. It sounds like that’s not so, in which case the easiest solution would definitely be to buy them online and have them shipped to either your hotel or a local liquor shop before you arrive. I’d make sure it was OK with both the company you order from and the hotel or shop beforehand though. A few good places to start: [Zachy’s](http://www.zachys.com/Default.aspx?Section=Shipping) [K&L](http://www.klwines.com/) [D&M](http://www.dandm.com/champagne.php) [Wine Spectrum](http://www.winespectrum.com/WSWebDS.html) [Finest Wine](http://www.finestwine.com/en/wine-search-region-champagne.html) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/48 "2006-12-14T03:17:41Z")
[QUOTE=xiix] Really Not All That Bright: While Fukang holds a very special place deep beneath the cockles of my heart, I live in Toronto, Canada. There are technically no 5 star hotels in Aruba and a small population and so I think finding vintage champagne would be tricky. [/QUOTE] Well, change your damn location then 😃 Are there no four-star hotels in Aruba either? You can get a bottle of Moet at any three-star hotel I’ve ever visited so I’d imagine you get get a bottle of whatever you like at any four-star. ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886/49 "2006-12-14T03:33:12Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] If you want to go completely over the top… [/QUOTE] Actually, that’s probably the way to go. Spending $220 to protect $1200 worth of consumables isn’t a bad investment. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/champagne-emergency/383886.md?page=2)