[Closed] Cristal champagne?

Mate at work and his wife enjoy going to Dubai a few times a year for a break.

Apparently they enjoy the odd bottle of Cristal.

They just want to make sure that everyone knows that they're
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Overpriced tosh.

You can only know by trying it. I haven't and probably wont bother. I have a suspicion its more style than substance but without a taste? Of course there is the fact I'd rather be bladdered on several bottles of something cheaper but that's just a class thing 🙂

£100? When I was proposing to the (now) wife I popped down to my local craft offie and bought a couple nice bottles of champagne for us and for our families. It was xmas eve and the guy behind me asked "how much is your best champagne?" £700 Cristal replied the guy at the till". "I'll take two" said mr fancy pants.

Kind of made me feel a bit of a bum, but she said yes and we had a great party announcing it to both our families despite our pauper champagne.

enjoy going to Dubai

I also subscribe to the more for less model. 😳

Tried it a few times and also spades even more expensive I think. Genuinely all tastes like £4 aldi sparking wine to me.
The fact the clubs I've had it in bringing it with musical fanfare and sparklers is why 99.9% of people drink it in clubs it's a big look at how rich I am.

I haven't tried it,I don't like champagne,but we bought a bottle for my sister in law as a wedding present,as shes always said she wanted to try some. she said it was exceptionally nice,and shed drink it all the time if she could afford it.

Smothing like a nice piper heidsieck maybe, cristal...nah

I was best an at a wedding last summer. The groom bought a bottle for pre wedding drinks for the ushers and myself. It was nice, but a bit lost on me. Would of been happy with a bottle of peroni.

Petrieboy, quite.

A hideously naff temple of tat built by slave labour. Makes Las Vegas seem tasteful and honest.

Recently, have been enjoying Hambledon Classic Cuvee NV. Local, fresh and lovely.
Oh, and Camille Saves. Delicious small producer. Decently priced, too.

Good quality vintage champagne tastes better than the average bottle and especially better than the Aldi fizz.

tazzymtb - Member
Smothing like a...

One assumes that's some kind of champagne snob language. 😛

Nooooo that's drunked imbecile with fingers like a chimp on a smart phne language

Been on the cava again have we tazzers? 😀

Amd im not a snob. .I am however unfortunately massively posh and then abandoned the family estates to be a scum bag junkie punk for a few years

Good lord no, dear boy. This evening has mostly bewn spent with a rather delightful absinthe and opium laced tea

I'm just downing a pre-holiday Lambrini.

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"how much is your[s] best [/s] most expensive champagne?"

Emperor's new clothes. Complete pretentious bollix.

ChubbyBlokeInLycra - Member

"how much is your best most expensive champagne?"

Most expensive doesn't always, in fact rarely, means best. At a recent whisky tasting session which included whiskies int the £200-£300 a bottle category, the second best was the cheapest (Old Perth at £25).

I can't actually remember his exact wording, he may have asked for most expensive. I generally don't or can't drink champers but I find the Sainsburys own stuff "Antoine DeClevecy" I think it's called is much nicer than the £50 a bottle stuff.

I rarely drink whiskey, and when I do I can just about handle Jameson or Powers. However, I bought my friend a bottle of Middleton 1987 Very rare and helped him drink it. oh my gee!

I thought only hip hop artists from the West coast drank it in videos whilst being fondled by hoes. And it most probably tasted like paint stripper.
Obviously I was wrong.

Christ! It's no where near as bad as the guys above are saying, it's far better than cheap fiz but I agree the difference between a bottle of mumm and cristal is probably not worth the extra ££. Only live once buddy, just buy some I think you can get it for £125 or buy a glass at a posh bar.

I agree those champagne parties are complete toss and a waste of champagne.

There is probably a wine or champagne version of STW. They'll sort you out if you want to drink champs.

There is probably a wine or champagne version of STW.

750ml really brings the wine alive.

There is probably a wine or champagne version of STW. They'll sort you out if you want to drink champs.

Cristal overpriced celeb footballer stuff, try a nice understated Ruinart, the oldest and best Champagne house. That or some Thatchers 😉

I once got my hands on a couple of bottles of Perrier Jouet Belle Epoque after a Danish wine merchant went bust.

It was astonishingly nice. I drank a little too much and was hung over the next day.

750ml really brings the wine alive.

But 4500ml bring the party alive.

Tried it twice and it is very good if you're into that sort of sparkling wine, however the brut nv made the same producer Louis Roederer for under £40 is far better value.

"There is probably a wine or champagne version of STW. They'll sort you out if you want to drink champs"

Its known as www.wine-pages.com

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If you drink it side by side with a lesser Champagne you can notice the differences. Do I drink it, no but I am of the vidw that most decent Champagne is relatively similar. I'm much more willing to spend that sort of money on wines

I'm much more willing to spend that sort of money on wines

Oh crap, I didn't even realise champagne wasn't a wine 😳

As one who would prefer water to Mumm Cordon Rouge and finds Belle Époque to be much better than Moët et Chandon ordinary I should expect Cristal to be rather good. Louis Roederer do make a nice drop of wine.

La Grande Dame and M. Dom Perignon are very welcome at JulianA towers (if they should ever choose to visit). PJ ordinary would be the quaffing champagne of choice... (So far)

Señor Cordon Negro is not welcome.

I'd rather waste that sort of money on a nice old bottle of red.

We once had a 'do' where the minimum entry ticket was a bottle of champagne and someone turned up with a bottle of something 'brut' and the explanation that 'brut was a champagne grape'. Needless to say they were welcome anyway.

Delamotte NV Champagne the sommeliers choice. Soon this fad for prosseco will be over just as its was for cava champage will rule again ( manic laughter)

For a normal priced bottle I'd go for Louis Roederer NV.

Since there's a lot of good advice, does anyone have any alternatives to Laurent Perrier Rosé? Something enjoyed equally by people who drink and those who are happy on a dirty bottle of Lambrusco?

Never tried it so shouldn't really be posting, but the last party we had I swapped out Veuve Clicquot champagne for White Lightening extra strength cider and no-one noticed. Poured the drinks into champagne glasses in the kitchen.

Not sure what that says about my friends. Or me for that matter.

Veuve Clicquot and Perrier Jouët both do a rose, which should be good if their NV whites are anything to go by. Can't recall trying either but like both the whites.

Veuve is a favourite but if you're going to spend lots, then Dom Perignon. Better value comes from claret however and is more memorable.

Veuve FTW.

However, caspian's point of view is very valid. Best big drinky sessions ever were on pints of Shambles - Double vodka, redbull, topped up to a pint with champers (if someone else is paying) or Strongbow (if you are or if they're from Yorkshire).

I couldn't discern the difference between the two - and I'm normally reet classy.

If you are going to do champagne cocktails even if it's just a kid royale I would not use branded champagne. For my daughters wedding she wanted champagne cocktails so we used blanc de blanc at €4.50 bottle from French supermarket. If you get a dry style crement (eg Burgandy or Alsace) that works too and similar price.

For branded champagne I like Laurent Perrier, I used to buy Ayala as it was £15 a bottle and used as house champagne at many top restaurants but it's been "discovered now" so not so cheap.

As an aside we in the UK drink more champagne than do any other nation even the French

when I live in Canterbury we where twined with Reims
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Marketing. Most of the small champagne houses keep the best of their crop for themselves and sell the rest to the likes of Moët. We did a mini tour of Champagne last year, looking for stuff for our wedding, was brilliant fun, great way to spend a long weekend if you like fizzy stuff. Just go door to door trying each of their wares.

Moët is nice, but vastly overpriced.

Since there's a lot of good advice, does anyone have any alternatives to Laurent Perrier Rosé? Something enjoyed equally by people who drink and those who are happy on a dirty bottle of Lambrusco?

I've drunk it, it's good but not outstanding, better than most sub £59 bottles but not as good as the better champagnes. At a similar price, Ruinart is what I look for unless they have a Bollinger Grand Annee, that's lovely stuff. At the cheaper end of the spectrum Drappier is very, very good for the money and Aldi have the best supermarket fizz, there standard stuff (£12 per bottle) is good, there posh stuff (£15 ish) is astonishing for that price.

Edit, if you're in the Midlands, pop into Nickolls and Perks in Stourbridge, they have a cracking selection offer some good advice and also sell a huge range of whiskey. And Aldi is round the corner from them as well!

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Got through a couple of bottles while sat looking through a huge window at the Jura mountains in the showroom of a world famous watchmakers after shooting $2million dollars worth of watches. I like my wine and happily pay £10-30 for a bottle but would have preferred a good prosecco with a bit of aperol in it or cloudy bay pelorus (NZ fizz)
Underwhelmed and would never buy it myself or as a gift.