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 post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. 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 national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

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