Champagne & Sparkling Wine

The best champagne for non-champagne drinkers

Advantages: Good value for money and fresh, appealing taste
Disadvantages: If you can afford to buy better, buy better

...without breaking the bank, than Piper-Heidsieck Brut NV (Non Vintage) is for you. Piper-Heidsieck is one of the "grand marques" of champagne. Its an old established champagne house (founded 1785) based at the home of champagne - Rhiems in France. The NV costs around £16 a bottle UK retail, which is more than supermarket champagne, but you are getting a significant notch up in terms of quality for that extra couple of pounds a bottle. I was trying ...
...I bought a variety of champagnes and good quality sparkling wines, ranging in price from around £11 a bottle up to £26 a bottle. I then arranged a blind tasting with freinds. The bottles were all disguised and they were tasted with a view to what would go best at a summer wedding. Guess what? The Piper-Heidseck won. So I was off to Majestic (see my other review) to order it for the wedding toasts. Why did the Piper come out top? It is a very fresh ...

KatherineA 09.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Piper-Heidsieck Champagne (Brut)

Lambrini, cheap option to get drunk!

Advantages: VERY CHEAP
Disadvantages: CHERRY FLAVOUR DOESNT COME IN 1.5 LITRE SIZE

i think lambrini is more for teenagers and young adults to get drunk then for older people that just want to enjoy a nice glass of wine, because to be honest it tastes nothing like wine, i think it has a very nice taste it to it, it doesnt taste much like alcohol, a lot of people have said they dont like the taste of it ive even heard it reffered to "cats urine" but i do think it tastes quite nice, its very cheap which is why its good for teenagers ...
...LIKE ABOUT THE PRODUCT: its very cheap tastes nice sold in most shops has a good range of sizes THINGS I DONT LIKE ABOUT THE PRODUCT: the cherry flavour doesnt come in the 1.5 litre size WHERE YOU CAN BUY THIS PRODUCT: you can buy this in most shops like tesco, sainsbury's, asda, most corner shops like premier sell it. PRICE: in tesco the 1 litre size bottle is £1.38 and the 1.5 litre bottle is around £2.50 overall this product is great for getting ...

jwl89 01.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lambrini

No fizz in the bottle of White Star purchased in Walmart

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: no fizz

Purchased a bottle of White Star for a very special occasion but cork would not pop and when it was removed - cork was skinny at the bottom, dry and with a white residuals on the bottom side. This residual disappeared or evaporated later on. There was no fizz in the wine and whole bottle ended up in the kitchen sink. BIG disappointment! Something like this will ruin your evening. I am not sure if this is due to a wrong storage at the store or wine ...

hydrotubes 13.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Moet&Chandon Champagne

○◦° Santé °◦○◦

Advantages: Refreshing and upmarket brand (after all James Bond drinks it…)
Disadvantages: Too expensive a habit to indulge as often as one likes

...going on. Bollinger is one of the oldest brands of champagne, but I don't think it's as well known as other more famous marques such as Moet et Chandon, Dom Perignon and Veuve Clicquot. However, Bollinger is by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, James Bond drinks nothing else (apart from his "shaken not stirred" Vodka Martinis of course) and it was, of course, splashed all over by Patsy and Edina in "Absolutely Fabulous". Of all the well ...
...choose from, Bollinger is my favourite. Given a choice between Krug, Moet et Chandon, Dom Perignon, Laurent Perrier, Veuve Clicquot or Taittinger, then I will choose Bollinger everytime. ~~ THE HOUSE OF BOLLINGER ~~ Bollinger is not merely a brand of champagne…it is an institution. To this day it remains a family run firm. It was established in 1829 by Jacques Bollinger and Paul Renaudin. The business was extended by both sons and grandsons over ...

Bollinger28 24.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Bollinger Special Cuvee Champagne

Party bubbles

Advantages: quality, taste, packaging, everything
Disadvantages: what, you don't like champagne?

...Bruno Paillard, Nicolas home made, Laurent Perrier, Billecart Salmon, Ruinart and Dom Ruinart (for those champagnes, that’s another story) Well, obviously, I knew already all of them but in white. I’ve never tried the pink one before. It’s a bit odd, a pink champagne. Well, Pink champagne aren’t that bad. My favorite was, and is still, the Laurent Perrier The packaging ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ In my metal box, silver, ...
...find several boxes; it will then be a carton one, red and violet, with a bright-shinning pink interior. Strange, but really useful to arrange pencils in your drawer) The Bottle ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Of my square shape, I would be distinguished In fact, it’s not a traditional champagne bottle shape. It’s more shorten, but sober, and the label is round. Of a capacity of 75cl, I know it neither in half, nor in magnum for ...

baghera_snake 05.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Laurent Perrier Rosé Champagne