Experts say Aldi champagne is worth double its purse-friendly price tag - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Food Experts say Aldi champagne is worth double its purse-friendly price tag By You Magazine - October 19, 2020 When it comes to wine, it’s easy to feel like we don’t know enough about the stuff other than that a high price tag must mean better plonk, right? Alamy Except at Aldi, where that’s just not true. Independent wine critic and TV personality Jilly Goolden put Aldi’s Autumn Winter range of bottles to the test, including a fantastic Aldi champagne – with some pleasantly surprising results. READ MORE: Aldi’s wine advent calendar is back and better than ever for 2020 After tasting Aldi’s Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut with her expert palette (an 18-year stint on top BBC TV show Food and Drink doesn’t teach you nothing), Jilly valued the bubbly tipple at £25 – nearly double its actual price tag of £12.99. The bottle also scored extremely well in Good Housekeeping’s annual Christmas taste test, coming second only to a £23.99 Waitrose bottle and beating many other higher priced champagnes to nab the runner-up spot. Alamy As well as the Aldi champagne, Jilly consistently valued every bottle in the supermarket’s seasonal wine offering at either the same or (more often) higher than its current retail price: the Specially Selected Mâcon Villages came in at 33 per cent higher (£9.99 versus its actual retail price of £7.49), while she rated the Specially Selected Chilean Gran Reserva Pinot Noir at £10.99, when its real price tag is just £6.99. Aldi Veuve Monsigny Champagne Brut, £12.99, Aldi Jilly Goolden said: ‘I drink a lot of wines that are £8 and under, and I believe you can find some fantastic wines that don’t cost the earth – if you know how to find them! Aldi’s new Autumn Winter range in particular, shows you don’t have to buy an expensive bottle of wine or a famous brand to get fantastic quality. ‘From its moreish Mâcon Villages 2019 wine to its sumptuous Gran Reserva Pinot Noir from Chile, there’s something for every wine drinker, including some really surprising and exciting bottles that I will certainly be stocking in my wine rack this season.’ If it’s good enough for Jilly… RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR Kids can eat for free at these restaurants during October half-term How to make the viral negroni sbagliato with prosecco at home 7 Halloween recipes with serious hex factor Popular in Food Gabriela Peacock 14-day plan Anytime baked eggs May 23, 2021 Joe Wicks’ maple-glazed chicken thighs with Asian slaw June 6, 2021 Mary Berry is returning to TV screens for a brand new June 15, 2021 Eleanor Maidment My summer taste notes July 4, 2021 Uyen Luu’ s sticky mustard marmalade ribs July 25, 2021 Annie Bell’ s white peach bellinis recipe August 8, 2021 M& S has launched a new crunchy Caramilk-inspired golden chocolate spread August 24, 2021 Deliciously preserved pickle and jam recipes September 19, 2021 Gordon Ramsay’ s bang bang cauliflower October 3, 2021 Wow right now Clodagh McKenna’ s speedy family dinners October 24, 2021 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved