Best cheap Champagnes to shop this festive season: Budget-friendly fizz that tastes great
The words ‘cheap’ and ‘Champagne’ are rarely seen together, and for good reason.
France’s premium sparkling wine has long been the one to which all others are measured, so naturally it comes at a price.
Produced in the French region of the same name, grapes here are grown in optimal conditions and on vineyards owned by grand Maisons whose history stretches back a good couple of centuries - or more. It’s a luxury serve that gets poured for life’s landmark moments: big birthdays, weddings, graduations, new arrivals, Christmases or other major religious holidays where appropriate.
This enviable position at the is a huge hit with Britons (with London sitting slap-bang in the centre of the country’s “Prosecco belt”), while Spanish Cava is cheaper still with bottles to be found on shelves for well under a tenner. , considered by many as the closest tasting to France’s elixir, is fast becoming one of the UK’s greatest exports as the climate in the southeast hots up every year.
