Champagne Veuve Monsigny Premier Cru Brut NV

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Bottle of Champagne Veuve Monsigny Premier Cru Brut NV.

Champagne Veuve Monsigny Premier Cru Brut NV
$40, 12% alcohol, DIAM cork, Champagne/France.

This is the best value Champagne on the Australian market. It’s exclusive to Aldi stores and it’s worth stocking up on. The only problem is that Aldi only have it for sale around Christmas – and then it disappears again. So if you see it: buy. Don’t hesitate.

Pour your first glass and there it is: honeyed aromatics, a rich drive of fruit flavour, a gentle saltiness and a smoky, wheaty character. It has style, it has substance, it feels and tastes like the real deal and it is. If I was scoring this I’d be around 92/100, maybe 93 on a good day, and with that it’s outstanding value. On my second glass of this I saw notes of oyster shells and strawberry pips. There you go. Put it this way, I’ll be buying some.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

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