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AIBU to expect PROPER champagne?

23 replies

bagoo · 27/04/2011 19:13

DH only ever buys a bottle of champagne (just the one, mind) for Christmas, usually we have Prosecco or Lindauer or Cava if we're having bubbly.

Today I got really good news. After years of struggling as a self-employed 'creative' type, I finally got the massive breakthrough I've been longing for.

I was excited.

DH was excited for me. He said we would celebrate by drinking champagne.

He came home from work with a bottle ...
... of sodding Lindauer. He didn't splash out for bottle of the good stuff. I want champagne and dancing girls, dammit, I want to be SPOILT. And what the fuck do I have to do to get a bottle of Moet? Didn't even happen when I gave birth to his bloody children.

So now I'm silently sulking. He doesn't know this yet as he is bathing the kids.

So, should I suck it up or let him know I'm not impressed?

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CocktailQueen · 27/04/2011 19:18

Well, maybe he just thinks fizz = champagne, whether it's Moet or Lindauer! My dh prefers a prosecco to expensive champagne... Have you told him how you feel? Is he excited and pleased for you? If he is, then I'd probably just suck it up and buy some champagne yourself when you're paid! Congrats :)

Stangirl · 27/04/2011 19:27

My DP buys wine for a living and is one of only 200 people in the world who is a qualified Master of Wine - even he buys prosecco as a good one will be better than a lot of the champagne that is commonly sold. Moet in particular is regarded as mass produced, over priced muck by most wine professionals. If you want something really good they all drink Krug - not Cristal or Dom Perignon. So YANBU - but at least ask for something that is actually considered good or something you genuinely like the taste of. Of the cheaper brands we normally go for Veuve. Congratulations on the work news.

Gemsy83 · 27/04/2011 19:32

Ive never had it for various special occasions, think he thinks because he doesnt like it I shouldn't get it.

CurrySpice · 27/04/2011 19:33

First of all bagoo, well bloody done :o

Don't sulk because the only person who will have their evening ruined is you. Enjoy your fizz and splash out on something really spesh when you get paid

glastocat · 27/04/2011 19:35

stangirl, I'm envious you have a DO that is a Mastr of Wine, I'd love to do that. Veuve has always been my champagne of choice, I've never had the wallet for anything better. I agree Moet is no better than cava IMO. So how hard is it to be a MoW?

Dozer · 27/04/2011 19:35

YABU (congrats though!)

Just get some proper stuff yourself and tell DH you prefer it.

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bagoo · 27/04/2011 19:36

Stangirl - I think you mean YABU instead of YANBU Wink

Fair enough - I just used Moet as a wellknown brand name, I agree it's not actually that good.

And a good prosecco would have been nice. But this isn't prosecco.

I do feel that DH can be tight about certain things - he is a real stickler for value for money and for not spending money on certain things - and sometimes I'd like him to just splash out.

But I will suck up the Lindauer.

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Bogeyface · 27/04/2011 19:37

Have you actually told him that you would like champagne for a special occasions and not cava et al?

If you have and he is ignoring you then no YANBU, but if you havent said anything then he is hardly going to know that you dont like what he is buying is he?! I am sure if you tell him now he will probably ask "why didnt you tell me?" and he would have a point!

northerngirl41 · 27/04/2011 19:38

Heston Blumenthall did a test where he soda-streamed Blue Nun and did a taste test - 90% of people preferred the Blue Nun to the champagne he offered them and they all professed to be wine snobs. TBH I doubt whether most people can tell the difference between expensive/non-expensive fizzy wine - it's simply a matter of what your tastebuds prefer.

So yup YABU, but CONGRATULATIONS!

Gemsy83 · 27/04/2011 19:39

LOL @ soda streamed blue nun- now the next time I have a party....

therugratref · 27/04/2011 19:43

I bought a bottle of cava in spain recently for E 1.57 it was actually very good and although I have not reached the lofty heights of MW I do have the higher certificate and do know a bit about wine.
I tend to drink Cava or Prosecco as sadly I can no longer afford Dom or Krug
Congratulations by the way- enjoy the cut price and spend the difference on something nice just for you

Pagwatch · 27/04/2011 19:44

I love a good soda stream.

Congratulations Smile

Don't get bothered by a minute detail.
By the second or fifth bottle I barely notice the label

Northeastgirl · 27/04/2011 21:01

Congratulations on your good news! I would guess your husband thought that champagne = fizz.

discobeaver · 27/04/2011 21:09

Another blind tasting happened where they added red colour to White wine, and wine snobs were describing it as full bodied, berry flavoured, well rounded blah blah. I think a lot of wine tasting is rubbish, same as expensive art.
But if you want champers you should get it!

hairylights · 27/04/2011 21:23

I love lindauer. It's exactly like good champagne except the grapes are grown
somewhere else. So yabu.

MsScarlett · 27/04/2011 21:26

Really disco beaver? That's funny. I'm sure even my unrefined taste buds can taste the difference between white and red, but you never know, they say you taste things with your eyes before anything else...

Lol at the Blue Nun. Bless my aunt the other day, she had us round for dinner. They don't normally drink wine, but they had got us in some Leibfraumilch especially...
Had to very tactfully suggest that we open the bottle that we had brought with us! Grin

discobeaver · 27/04/2011 21:30

I think that's what the tasting was testing, that we expect certain things to be a certain way, so we convince ourselves they are - so the red coloured wine was perceived to have red wine qualities, even if in reality it didn't.
It was part of an artcle about designer brands and supposed value of things, think it was in the Times, ages ago but I still remember it.

discobeaver · 27/04/2011 21:34

scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/11/the_subjectivity_of_wine.php

found a link!

MrsSchadenfreude · 27/04/2011 21:38

If you go to a wine tasting they often put the wine in black glasses, so you don't know what you are drinking. And lots of people guess wrong!

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bagoo · 27/04/2011 21:42

Thanks guys for making me see I am BU Blush

I spoke to DH about it and he said exactly what some of you wrote on here - that he likes Lindauer, he thinks it's better than most cheap champagne, and faced with what was offer on the shop he thought that was the best quality, and it is pink fizz so he thought I'd like that, and to him it's champagne. He also reminded me that he chose a bottle of vintage champagne at a restaurant for our wedding anniversary the other month, so he doesn't always choose sparkling wine Wink

I don't know why I got hung up on this. I think part of me finds it hard to stay with good news and not find fault in some way! Hmm, bit deep there. Better go and drink some champagne sparkling wine.

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MsScarlett · 27/04/2011 22:27

I wasn't doubting you for a second discobeaver, just goes to show how much of what we "taste" is influenced by our other senses and other factors...

I remember once I ate some potatoes at my mum's and I was convinced they tasted mouldy (I was pg and my tastebuds and vomit centres were doing funny things anyway, and I was paranoid about gone off food, green potatoes etc...), but then my mum pointed out they were cooked with rosemary and then I realised that was what I was tasting...

Now I'm sure that mould and rosemary taste completely different, but when I thought it was mould it tasted of mould, and when I realised it was rosemary, it tasted of rosemary... Hmm

MsScarlett · 27/04/2011 22:30

BTW thanks for this thread, I had never heard of Lindauer before, but I do like a bit of fizz and often spend a bit more than the standard fiver on a nice bottle of cava or prosecco when the mood takes me - I may now give Lindauer a bash, I do like a nice NZ sauv blanc so if they're anything to go by...

scottishmummy · 27/04/2011 22:36

lindauer is nice.drink up.stop mumping

congratulations on good news

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