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

This article was written by Campbell Mattinson, founder of The Winefront and mattinson, and former chief editor of Halliday.

When you pick up a wine book and see thousands of top-scoring wines, it’s hard to know which wine to choose. Mattinson guides you through this maze, giving you an honest view of the best Australian wines, the best wine stories, the best wine producers, the best value wines and simply, the best tasting wines. Importantly, Mattinson will tell you about the top-rated wines and also about the underrated wines. In short, Mattinson knows Australian wines inside and out.

Mattinson has been a photo-journalist since 1987. For the past 25 years he’s been a voice that you can trust when you’re looking for the best wines. 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, and is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter. He’s not afraid to put a score beside a wine. But what he’d rather do, is tell you the wine’s story.

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