a not dry champagne?..champagne doux whats it like?

[ferre]

hi all,

so i am fairly new to the whole wine thing. since i was young my family has only ever had sweet wines on the table like a lambrusco and so now when i buy wine i find i am a lot more fond of a sweet wine then a strong red.

so anyway i am yet to taste a sparkling wine which i have liked they have always been to dry for my liking. I want to buy a bottle for my girlfriend and i when i propose. but i am reluctant to spend a lot of money on something that i am unsure we will like anymore then the cheaper $20-30 bottles types we have tasted before.

so i did some research yesterday to find out if there where sweeter sparkling wines and came up with champagne doux which suggested to me that perhaps i could find a sweeter sparkling wine in the champagne style.

so can anyone give me some advice on some really special sweeter style sparkling wines i'd be willing to spend up to about $250 a bottle.

also i am from Australia so if there are any Australian wines I'd probably be more interested in them. for a bit of background i just went to the brown brothers website as we have tried quite a few of their wines and liked them. so these are some that we liked brown brothers spatles lexia, crouchen riesling, dolcetto & syrah ,muscato (though very nice i am looking for something much more bubbly). we also like very sweet desert wines like de bortoli noble one.

well anyway thanks all and i hope someone might have a few good suggestions [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]


[This message has been edited by ferre (edited 01-10-2006).]