Champagne Veuve Monsigny Premier Cru Brut NV

4 Nov

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.

Champagne Veuve Monsigny

Campbell Mattinson

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of the highly respected The Winefront site.

Mattinson has been an independent wine critic and photo-journalist since 1987. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the prized Best Australian Sports Writing Award.

Mattinson, who is 100% independent, puts a score out of 100 on every wine that he reviews. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com

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