From: Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 9/17/01 4:40:00 PM
> So what Champagne do you recommend? I know we have the
> great and the good on the list and also the french (who
> may be actually useful in this case). So what is the best
> fizz?
>
> I prefer Veuve Clicquot, but thats me, so whats the best
> reasonably priced fizz?
IMHO champagne is overrated and artificially overpriced[1]
I'm also mentally scarred by spending a large chunk of the 90s
working in the City where every wine bar was full of tossers
buying champagne to prove how stupidly well-paid they were[2].
There's an place in Australia where they make sparkling wine
using the same methods as the French (in fact it's run by someone
who used to be chief wine honcho in some French place) but, of
course, they can't call it champagne. It's just as good and far
cheaper - but unfortunately I can't remember the name.
Most of the time I'd just go for a nice cava as it's far less
poncy.
Dave...
[1] Actually that could be said to be true of _most_ French wine.
[2] And, yes, some of them were IT contractors but, no, noe of
them were me.
--
<http://www.dave.org.uk>
Mention The Lord of the Rings just once more and I'll more than
likely kill you,
"Moorcock! Moorcock! Michael Moorcock!" you fervently moan.
- Half Man Half Biscuit (Dickie Davies Eyes)
