BUBBLY BARGAINS; Own-brand fizz beats big names in taste test.Byline: RUKI SAYID CHEAP supermarket fizz sparkled in a consumer taste test - while expensive Moet & Chandon fell flat. The luxury-label bubbly, which sells for pounds 28.88 a bottle, was humbled by seven own-label champagnes - including one for less than a tenner from budget store Aldi. Own-brand fizz from Sainbury's, Lidl, the Co-op, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer, and Tesco also all fared better than market leader Moet, which came second from bottom in the taste test. A panel of experts from Which? sipped and rated 14 champagnes. The results burst Moet's bubble, testers slating The procedure by which law enforcement officials record on the blotter information about an individual's arrest and charges, together with identification and facts about his or her background. The term slating is used synonymously with booking. it as tasting "slightly medicinal" with "aggressive acidity" and saying it "lacked flavour". It scraped in just one mark ahead of last placed Asda's Extra Special Premier Cru at pounds 17.88. But testers raised a glass to the pounds 15.98 Sainsbury's Blanc de Noirs Blanc de noirs is a French term (literally "white of blacks") for a white wine produced entirely from black grapes. It is often encountered in Champagne, where a number of houses have followed the lead of Bollinger's prestige cuvée bubbly, which scored 89%. The panel rated it "exceptional value" and "good quality". They said the supermarket's own-label fizz was almost as good as posh Veuve Clicquot which was the overall taste winner with 90% - but which costs almost twice as much. Which? editor Martyn Hocking said: "With the party season ahead of us it's great to know you don't need to spend a fortune to get a good quality champagne. Sainsbury's own brand's a corker cork·er n. 1. One that corks bottles, for example. 2. Slang A remarkable or astounding person or thing. corker Noun Old-fashioned slang ." THE TOP TIPPLES: HOW THE PANEL SCORED 1. Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label, pounds 31.91 -90% 2. Sainsbury's Blanc de Noirs, pounds 15.98 & H. Blin v. t. & i. 1. To stop; to cease; to desist. n. 1. Cessation; end. 1. a thin buckwheat pancake made with yeast and usually filled with sour cream and folded over. See also blini. & Co Brut Brut, Brute (both: br  t), or Brutus (br , pounds 24.99 -89%
3. Co-op's Les Pionniers Brut, pounds 15.55 -88% 4. P Boutet, pounds 29.99 & Waitrose Blanc de Blancs Brut, pounds 21.99 -87% 5. Marks & Spencer's Oudinot Brut, pounds 19.99 -86% 6. Veuve Joubert Reserve Speciale, pounds 20.99 & Lidl's Comte de Brismand Brut, pounds 13.99 -85% 7. Lanson Black Label, pounds 26.98 -84% 8. Aldi's Veuve Monsigny Champagne, pounds 9.99 -84% 9. Tesco Finest Premier Cru Brut, pounds 18.99 -82% 10. Moet & Chandon, pounds 28.88 -79% 11. Asda Extra Special Premier Cru, pounds 17.88 -78% CAPTION(S): CORKERS Champagnes in study |
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