Supermarket own-brand Champagne named better than Moet and Chandon – it’s not Aldi or Lidl and it’s £19 cheaper

A SUPERMARKET own-brand Champagne has been crowned Christmas champion - beating rivals including Moët & Chandon successful a sensation test.

Consumer champion Which? invited a sheet of 4 vino experts to blind-taste a enactment of non-vintage Champagnes to uncover the champion bubbly.

The sheet included Master of Wine Sam Caporn, Saturday Kitchen prima Helen McGinn, arsenic good arsenic MJ Wine Cellars laminitis Magnavai Janjo and co-chair of the WineGB Awards Susie Barrie.

They sipped 9 supermarket Champagnes, priced betwixt £18 and £25, alongside Moët & Chandon.

The victor of the trial was Tesco’s Finest Cru Brut Champagne, which scored an awesome 82% successful the judges' trial and was awarded a Best Buy endorsement.

Priced astatine £25, the Champagne impressed with its nutty aroma and fresh, fruity flavours.

And, it bushed Moët & Chandon, which is astir doubly the terms astatine £44 but scored conscionable 77% successful the test.

Aldi’s Veuve Monsigny Premier Cru Brut Champagne besides won a Which? Best Buy endorsement, scoring 80% successful the judges' sensation test.

It is priced astatine £22 and impressed with its aroma of crunchy greenish apples with a proposition of pecans, spice and butterscotch. 

Waitrose’s Brut NV Champagne besides scored 80% and was likewise awarded a Best Buy endorsement.

The judges said it had a pleasing blend of peach, pear and pome flavours, and a superb seed and wintertime spice taste. A vessel volition acceptable you backmost £25.

The sensation squad besides tested sparkling wines, for those looking for a cheaper alternate to Champagne and uncovered immoderate large bargain bottles.

The cheapest tested was Lidl’s Prosecco Superiore Valdobbiadene, which scored 80% and is conscionable £7.49 a bottle.

Natalie Hitchins, Which? Home Products and Services Editor, said: "Millions of radical similar to toast the festive play with immoderate fizz, and our sheet recovered affordable and delicious options that were dramatically cheaper than alternatives from the big-name champagne houses.

“Our sensation tests amusement that you don’t person to walk implicit the likelihood for a supermarket champagne oregon sparkling vino that delivers connected prime and worth for money, making it the cleanable Christmas tipple.”

It's worthy bearing successful caput that the prices quoted present are close arsenic of November 14, but they could alteration successful the tally up to Christmas.

If you're feeling terms delicate arsenic festive expenses heap in, usage a examination tract to marque definite you're getting the champion deal.

Trolley.co.uk lets you comparison prices connected thousands of products crossed the large supermarkets and filter results from the slightest to astir expensive.

But, retrieve it doesn't see prices from immoderate retailers, including Home Bargains and Lidl.

You tin besides person a speedy scan of the net with the Google Shopping/Product tab to spot which retailer has the cheapest terms connected a circumstantial merchandise too.

Champagne isn't the lone Christmas point Which? has been testing.

It has besides tested mince pies with a surprising supermarket crowned best.

It besides tried supermarket own-brand Irish pick against Baileys – and the victor wasn't Aldi oregon M&S.

In different sensation test news, we tried booze advent calendars – the festive victor was conscionable £2 per drink.

Plus, we tested 12 festive sandwiches including Aldi and Starbucks – the victor was a hearty handheld Christmas meal nether £4.

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