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Stocking up on wine and champagne

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  • 20-11-2008 7:43pm
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    Orla K
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    Anyone know anything good, especially the champagne. For that I'm willing to spend a max of €50.
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    whydave
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    Orla K wrote: »
    Anyone know anything good, especially the champagne. For that I'm willing to spend a max of €50.

    have to say TESCO Champagne in my opinion is great value :)


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    Mr Magnolia
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    whydave wrote: »
    have to say TESCO Champagne in my opinion is great value :)

    I agree. They also have a lovely Prosecco for less than €13 that I enjoy occasionally.


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    shrapnel222
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    a very good champagne is the charles heidseck (not the piper heidseck, which is also nice but overpriced here in general, or the heidseck monopole which is god awful), it usually retails at around 35-40 euros and is fantastic. much better than moet, mumm, etc.

    supermarket branded champagne are always hit and miss, as they are surplus champagne from wine houses. they are always worth trying out though, as one batch may be louis roederer, the next could be mumm. If you try it and like it, go back and make sure it's the same batch number so that you get the one you liked, and not some other house.


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    the beer revolu
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    Centra and Supervalue used to do a Champagne caller Drapier for about €25 which was amazing for the price.
    Not sure if they still stock it but it's work picking up if you see it around for under €30


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    jdivision
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    The Tesco VINTAGE champagne has won loads of blind testing awards, beating out the better known labels. If you need the label then Bollinger is fairly good


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    Cicero
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    Would choose a good Proscecco or Gratien Meyer Method Traditionale (Loire Valley part of France) any day over a bottle marked 'champagne'...if its for a present, consider a hamper to the value of EUR50 filled with sparkling wines, cheeses, salamis, biscuits etc etc - if you still really really want Champagne, my favourite is Laurent Perrier - comes in at exactly EUR 50 from here http://www.booze.ie/product_info.php?products_id=417


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    Frisbee
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    Orla K wrote: »
    Anyone know anything good, especially the champagne. For that I'm willing to spend a max of €50.

    If your willing to go for Prosecco over champers try the Rizzardi Prosecco in O'Briens.
    Really fruity and long lasting bubbles.
    You won't be disappointed.

    As for the wine. White or Red?

    A nice Amarone for the Red, the Bertani and Tomassi one's are both widely available and very nice.

    In the white a good Chablis or Terre de Fumée

    It all depends on your personal tastes really.


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    Orla K
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    the beer revolu wrote: »
    Centra and Supervalue used to do a Champagne caller Drapier for about €25 which was amazing for the price.
    Not sure if they still stock it but it's work picking up if you see it around for under €30

    I've seen this in supervalu but there was two one with a black label which was more expensive. I think the other had a gold label

    I've gotten the tesco one before it's great for the price and I will be having a few bottles of it.
    Cicero wrote: »
    Would choose a good Proscecco or Gratien Meyer Method Traditionale (Loire Valley part of France) any day over a bottle marked 'champagne'...if its for a present, consider a hamper to the value of EUR50 filled with sparkling wines, cheeses, salamis, biscuits etc etc - if you still really really want Champagne, my favourite is Laurent Perrier - comes in at exactly EUR 50 from here http://www.booze.ie/product_info.php?products_id=417


    It's not for a present, it's for me and I suppose for the people coming over too, I may give them a bit too. Thanks for the link too.
    Frisbee wrote: »
    If your willing to go for Prosecco over champers try the Rizzardi Prosecco in O'Briens.
    Really fruity and long lasting bubbles.
    You won't be disappointed.

    As for the wine. White or Red?

    A nice Amarone for the Red, the Bertani and Tomassi one's are both widely available and very nice.

    In the white a good Chablis or Terre de Fumée

    It all depends on your personal tastes really.

    I'm going to go to o'briens and have a nose around. As for red or white, I drink red but other people don't. I can pick out a red no bother as long as I have time. White wine I drink in the summer, I tend to go for anything that isn't dry, other people might be pickier than me


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