The best drinks to take to festivals

Pull on your drinking wellies — festival season is upon us. But what booze to stuff in your trusty North Face rucksack? Glass bottles are heavy and probably banned, there’s only so many cans of warm Strongbow and Red Stripe you can grimace through, and necking £10 cocktails from the bar every hour will bankrupt you, quickly. Luckily there’s a new wave of festival-friendly drinks to see you through four days in a soggy field.

Take Quello, a semi-sparkling white wine in a can that saves you the shame of decanting bottles of Pinot Grigio into old Evian bottles. Made from a blend of Trebbiano and Pagadebit grapes from independent producers in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, Quello is naturally fermented without adding carbon dioxide or glycerine, making it less eye-wateringly gassy and more gently fizzy.

Founder Roberta Sergio created her canned wine as a reaction to the ‘stuffy and pretentious’ sparkling wine scene. ‘There’s none of the pretension associated with prosecco or champagne,’ she says. ‘You can drink it straight out of the can’ — each of which is not only a perfect single serving, but easier to recycle and less dangerous than a glass bottle.