Supermarket Champagne - do you buy it/rate it?

[Earlybird]

Read a few days ago that experts including Egon Ronay did a blind taste test of supermarket champagnes, and said they compared favourably to the more expensive stuff.
Here are the ones they particularly liked:

Marks & Spencer Champagne de St Gail Premier Cru Brut £14.99
Sainsbury's Vintage 1999 Blanc de Blanc Brut £17.99
Sainsbury's Blanc de Noirs Brut £13.99
Sainsbury's Champagne Rose £16.29

Anyone tried them? Any other tips about good, well priced wine/champagne? This is important information we all need given the fast approaching holiday season with all the accompanying festivities!

I've had the two sainsburys ones that aren't rose, and I would say they were decent tbh. Perfectly acceptable champagnes.

A Tesco one won a prestigious award last year.

dad and expat - do you remember which ones?

I was surprised not to see any from Waitrose or Tesco on the list....

I meant the two Sainsburys ones on your list.

Perfectly nice, and I can be a bit fussy - I don't like cava, or other sparkling wines much.

the m&s oudinot one is nice for those occasions when you don't want to spend £££s

I've had the Sainsbury's non rose ones too, very nice.

TBH we tend to go for Jacobs Creek sparking pinot noir/chardonnay - it's much cheaper and tastes fab.

Haven't the Aldi champagnes come out really well in a recent test?

not tried them personally so can't recommend either way though - sorry!

last christmas we tried a couple of the cheap ones in sains,not their own brand just ones on offer for about £12,and they were excellent. Went back and stocked up on the one we really liked.

In this months Goodhousekeeping they reckon Morrisons have a really good one for abot £12 so I will try that next time I"m on that side of town

We were given a bottle of Waitrose champers that was really nice. I also bought some Sainsburys Cava (sparkling and usually in the champagne section) and that was OK, quite a nice alternative to champagne. Though maybe at £3.99 a bottle I was swayed by the price!

Earlybird: there's only 1 Tesco's one. It's about £12 a bottle, and very nice.

It all tastes lovely to me. Make happiness cost less and keep your palate unrefined.

just heard malcolm gluck (cheap plonk) rave about supermarket champagne saying it was better than Moet etc.. (he actually used words like complex, interesting, exciting, but I think he meant they taste nice!) Waitrose and Tesco he mentioned

Would you feel comfortable taking supermarket champagne to someone's house as a gift? Somehow, even if it tastes great I'd feel self conscious - which is ridiculous if the taste is what matters..

clos de monostriol cava (thanks bossykate)
if you're going to go cheap this is the way forward

sophable - where can you buy that one?

M&S Oudinot Rose and Sainsburys Rose are both good but Sainsburys generally cheaper.

sainsburys, waitrose

it's about 9 quid normally, but they do do offers on it which is when i run in a snap it up (£4.50)

better than most NV champagnes although i agree that if you are going one up price wise best bet is supermarket vintage.

obviously if you can afford it then pol roger and bollinger special cuvees....

i love the tesco own brand brut (£14). they also do half bottles (only £8), and 1/3 bottle (pointless).
it's what i have if dh goes out for a night. better than a take away.