Best cheap xmas champagne -

Asda are selling Piper for £15. This is cheap and also quite nice. They're doing some other champagne for a tenner but I haven't sampled it.
 
It's very hard to keep track of all the offers going on at the moment. There is some really good Champagne out there for relatively cheap prices. One option is to go for Waitrose's own brand, which is roughly £15. I personally think that this is a really good price for what it is.

I am not a big fan of the Piper-Heidsieck, but that is mainly because I think it is overpriced.

If you can get that Bollinger for £23 that someone mentioned above, I'd say go for it!

Also, I am with DanielMMS on this one. Don't just buy Champagne because it is Champagne. There are many other types of wine for around £20 that might be better for the occasion.

Lastly, it might not be a bad idea to go for something English instead, such as a Ridgeview or Chapel Down. This might be an especially good thing if you and your family are from the South, as it might almost be your 'local' wine. :)
 
B@Th*nG said:
lol... you have got to be joking! Cava is a ****ing awful drink in almost all instances so i can't imagine ASDA's cheapest is any exception

B@
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ASDA's cheapest stuff might not be so very good, but you clearly haven't had much experience of Cava if that is your opinion.
 
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Couldn't see the keyboard on my notebook last night to actually reply properly other than disdain!
That which report, I haven't read it but is it most bought, rather than "best"? If that's the case most people are *****. Lanson black label is rough.

It depends really on what you're looking for in a champagne, but if it's a crisp bottle of blancs de blancs style, there are some great English "champagnes" (obviously can't be called that as it's not made in Champagne) in waitrose for about 20quid. Really nice, fresh and clean and smack a lot of "top end" names.

I don't rate Moet at all. I don't rate Lanson (one of my least favs). Pommery isn't bad, actually. VC is middle of the road, same with PH really.

If you want one that is more flavoursome and a damn right smacker of a champagne, you want to try Louis Roederer Brut NV (The 2004 vintage is a bit more!) but for about 30quid you can get some from waitrose, or other good supermarkets, and it smacks balls out of any champagne you will have.
I'm not a whisky, port, red wine drinker, but I do very much like my champagne and have been through a lot. (6 bottles this month lol)

Just checked the names of the English and there is one: 2004 Chapel Down Pinot Brut Reserve, Kent, England.
Gaston Chiquet, Cuvee Selection Brut is one I had at the weekend, which you should be able to pick up for about 25quid and is much nicer than your run of the mill bubbly.

Perrier Jouet is nice, but you are looking around the 35quid mark and it's much more of a crisp floral flavour whereas the Louis I like is more yeasty, buttery and biscuity.

Right, I'm going to shut the hell up now and get back in my box.
 
I often drink the cheap Cava from ASDA/Tesco, but only because I get immense pleasure from opening them up with my sabre. I've almost perfected the technique and lose very little drink. :)
 
Ahleckz said:
That's like saying white wine is an awful drink. What a stupid thing to say.
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Totally agree the comment made was truly ridiculous decent Cava is brilliant stuff an to be honest I'd much rather have a good £10-15 Cava or Proseco than a £15-25 bottle of Champagne. The middle market Champagne market is a nightmare filled with everything from the reasonable to the damn right horrible! Personally unless your heading towards £30 a bottle I rekon your better off with good Cava or Proseco.
 
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