Whats decent champaign?

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Did I even spell that correctly? Anyway, I digress. Saturday is my parents 25th anniversary and my grandma got them matching champaign glasses with their names engraved. I was thinking that I could buy them a bottle of the bubbley but I dont know what a decent kind is. I know nothing about this kind of stuff. I was looking to spend about $50 but I could go higher. So any suggestions?
 
Cant go wrong with a nice bottle of Brut:

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http://pacific-estates.com/champagne-charles-ellner-brut-reserve.html

http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&resnum=0&q=brut+champagne&um=1&ie=UTF-8

a 91/100

Sorry, I used to work for a winery...
 
It's Champagne. Champaign is the name of the neighboring city to Urbana, where I'm living now. FYI
 
Solid Lifters
This is my wife's favorite, and it's only $11. Oh, and NEVER judge a wine by its price. Go by how many gold medals it has won.

http://www.bevmo.com/productinfo.as...6428&Ne=305&Nr=Store:99&Nr=Store:99&area=wine
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He asked for Champagne, not sparkling wine. ;)


Speaking of which, I just found a 23 year old bottle of Cristal while cleaning out the kitchen cupboards the other day. The cellophane wrapping was so brittle and half the bottle was air. I think it was from my parents' wedding party.
 
menomena
It's Champagne. Champaign is the name of the neighboring city to Urbana, where I'm living now. FYI
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Not too far from me. I live up just south of Joliet 👍

I might go to the store and just price shop, or just look around a little to see what they have.
 
Omnis
He asked for Champagne, not sparkling wine. ;)
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That's all what champagne is; wine with sparkles. It ain't nothing that special. I think champagne is way overrated, anyway.

Speaking of which, I just found a 23 year old bottle of Cristal while cleaning out the kitchen cupboards the other day. The cellophane wrapping was so brittle and half the bottle was air. I think it was from my parents' wedding party.
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Was it lying on its side? If not, it's probably vinegar, by now.
 
Solid Lifters
That's all what champagne is; wine with sparkles. It ain't nothing that special. I think champagne is way overrated, anyway.


Was it lying on its side? If not, it's probably vinegar, by now.
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If you want to be technical, Champagne can only be called Champagne if it comes from Champagne, France. :)

Yep, it was on its side, but it was vinegar as far as I was concerned. Needless to say, I threw it out. Champagne doesn't stay like wine does.
 
Sparkling wine isn't "real" Champagne, even if it is pretty much the same product, but there is that certain charm of drinking the real stuff, how you know exactly where it came from and that it is the real deal. I don't know much about properly browsing the stuff, but I do know that you shouldn't get André, and Mumm's is probably a safe bet.
 
Plou et Fils?

Tasty stuff. Costs six euros direct from the winery or $35 here in U S and A.
 
Anything less than $50 is either not champagne or very, very cheap champagne.

From there it goes:
Moet & Chandon < Cristal < Bollinger < Krug < Dom Perignon
 
An expert at a wine tasting my wife went to the other month told her that Taittinger is every bit as good as the likes of Krug or Cristal. Cristal taste for Moet cost? - sounds like a winner to me.
 
Moet, is the only one I have sampled of the champanes previosly mentioned. I would like to point out that it was 👍
 
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Correct.

Basic Moet (pronounced Moe-ett eh shon-don; as Moet was German. You can drop the 'eh', and run it all together to make moe-ett-shon-don, but you must never say 'moe-eh') is actually pretty awful. It's not dry enough, and it tastes very artificial. The Vintage Moets are good though, and a Pink one especially so.

Lanson is good. Not as good as Veuve, but then it's cheaper, and Taittinger is also very nice.
 
I had a glass of Dom Perignon at my cousin's wedding recently. I sneezed. But it was delicious.
 

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