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to ask if you would choose sparkling wine or champagne?

65 replies

GinThief · 29/10/2016 17:24

Need help deciding what drinks package to choose for our wedding guests.

Cast your vote for sparkling wine or champagne...

champagne will cost £13 per person more

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juls1888 · 29/10/2016 17:25

Sparkling wine please!

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ElsaAintAsColdAsMe · 29/10/2016 17:25

Sparkling wine, cheaper and nicer imo.

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Eevee77 · 29/10/2016 17:25

£13 more PP, wine he absolutely!

As a guest I really would not care.

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myfavouritecolourispurple · 29/10/2016 17:26

I was going to say whatever is on offer, but we served Lindauer to our wedding guests.

English sparkling wine (from Chapel Down in Tenterden) is really nice but rather expensive.

Waitrose often have offers on bottles of champagne for about £16 a bottle or less.

Prosecco? My local M&S had an offer on Prosecco for £8 a bottle recently.

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isseywithcats · 29/10/2016 17:26

sparkling wine proscecco tastes nicer

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winterinmadeira · 29/10/2016 17:26

Sparkling wine for sure

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BolshierAryaStark · 29/10/2016 17:26

Depends on the sparkling wine really, there's a vineyard near us & the sparkling wine from them is gorgeous & definitely on par with champagne.

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Squeegle · 29/10/2016 17:27

I think you should go for the sparkling wine, as long as it tastes nice there is no point in spending all that extra

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 29/10/2016 17:28

Sparkling wine

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WhisperingLoudly · 29/10/2016 17:29

Depends on the wine and the champagne.

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Jellybean83 · 29/10/2016 17:30

Sparkling wine, I haven't bought champagne for ages since I discovered prosecco.

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DesolateWaist · 29/10/2016 17:30

Sparkling wine. Anyone who would bitch about it not being champagne could fuck off.

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Laiste · 29/10/2016 17:31

I agree it depends on the wine or the champers.

A cheap champagne will taste worse than a half decent sparkling wine. And vice versa really.

Could you do one small flute of champ. each for the guests for toasts and then refills with wine?

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Flisspaps · 29/10/2016 17:31

Sparkling wine.

Champagne is just sparkling wine from a specific region of France, isn't it?

We had £5 rose cava from Tesco at our wedding, people were taking whole bottles of it home at the end of the night so it can't have been that bad (I quite like it!)

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YelloDraw · 29/10/2016 17:32

Have you tasted both? Sparkling wind often as nice for lower price.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 29/10/2016 17:32

You can get lovely, vintage, fancy sparkling wine for the same price as Champagne. For no discernible reason except the name.

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Rhythmsticks · 29/10/2016 17:32

I think generally you can get a really nice sparkling wine for cheaper than the cheapest champagne. As long as it tastes nice I'm sure your guests won't notice what it is!

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Lovelybangers · 29/10/2016 17:33

Sparkling wine is fine. I'd choose Cava over Prosecco though.

Where is my invitation ? Grin

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chipsandpeas · 29/10/2016 17:34

sparking wine for me out of the two of them

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Piscivorus · 29/10/2016 17:35

I prefer Prosecco of the two. I suspect very few guests would even know the difference when served at a wedding

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PickAChew · 29/10/2016 17:36

Prosecco?

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ENormaSnob · 29/10/2016 17:37

Neither Grin

Red wine only for me thanks!

On behalf on my fizz drinking friends, go with the fizzy wine.

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 29/10/2016 17:37

How about Cremant - the Burgundy region version of champagne, but cheaper.
Dd had her big wedding do in Burgundy and that's what we had - lots of it!

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GinThief · 29/10/2016 17:44

I love you all, I would choose sparkling wine too Grin

now I just have to tell mumzilla that she can't have champagne

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Lovelybangers · 29/10/2016 17:44

Oh yes - the Cremant de Bourgogne is lush! It's the closest sparkling wine I have had to champagne. Cheap over there too - but I imagine it's not so easy to come by in UK.

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