The price of a bottle of champagne does not always guarantee its quality, as confirmed by the new comparison of champagnes carried out by 60 Million Consommateurs in its latest issue dedicated to festive meals for Christmas 2024 and the New Year. The magazine notably warns us against the worst champagne to buy this year. This is a bottle of champagne sold for more than 30 euros!
The champagne is renowned for being an expensive alcohol, a bottle of which can easily be sold for more than 40 euros, even in supermarkets. Made with Champagne grapes which are among the most expensive in the world, this sparkling wine also takes longer to produce than other wines like Crémant, in addition to being subject to high VAT on alcohol. But be careful of this common scam during the end-of-year holidays: the high price of a bottle of champagne does not guarantee quality bubble wine.
This is the sad observation made during the latest investigation carried out by 60 Million Consumers in its issue dated December 2024: “The most expensive are not necessarily the best!”. The magazine published by the National Consumer Institute confirms the results of UFC what to choose which indicates that the best champagne 2024 is a bottle sold at a low price, electing a champagne barely over 20 euros as the best bottle of champagne to drink this year (which is also the only champagne in its test to obtain a score greater than 15/20). Reliable results, since during this blind tasting around fifteen champagnes (including 11 brands sold in large retailers, and bottles purchased anonymously from wine merchants and on specialized sales sites) were tasted by a jury composed of wine experts (including master sommeliers, a tasting trainer, an oenology technician, professional tasters, etc.). This comparison also made it possible to highlight the worst champagne to drink this year according to the magazine: it is a H.Blin champagne.
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The worst champagne to buy for parties costs more than 30 euros according to 60 Million Consumers (a bottle of champagne to avoid for Christmas)
The worst champagne in the ranking 60 Million Consumers is the H.Blin Blanc de Blancs champagne. However, it is a fairly expensive bottle of champagne since it costs no less than 30.50 euros. This champagne, which we could recommend to accompany oysters or to toast as an aperitif, turned out to be disappointing and received a score of 10.5/10.
In the blind taste test it was judged “limit”, “difficile”, or even “defective”, indicate the conclusions of 60 Million Consumers. Characterized by a pale yellow color visible from the bottle, it is a champagne which turned out to be oxidized on the nose when served in the glass, revealing sulfur aromas and notes of cauliflower and metal, although d other florals. Once in the mouth, it doesn't do any better: experts have found that it lacks substance and “tension” and its length is “a bit short”. “We are talking here about a “taste of light”, a defect linked not to production, but to prolonged exposure to light: certain volatile compounds degrade, producing methanethiol, a molecule capable of giving cabbage notes to the wine. boiled or rubber”explains the magazine.
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Here is the other “bad” champagne to avoid for festive meals, according to 60 Million Consumers
Another bottle of champagne in the selection has attracted attention for the wrong reasons. This is the Veuve Émile Blanc de Blancs champagne, which is rated 11.1/20. This 2024 champagne, sold for more than 25 euros, does less well than less expensive champagnes.
When tasting, it offers a nose “unfriendly” with hints of sulfur. It is a champagne which is said “poorly balanced”. 60 Million Consumers explains this reproach by “a lack of balance between sweetness and acidity” of this sparkling wine.
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