Champagne

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Hotwine, have you been drinking Veuve (with an appropriate reference sample of, say Bollinger or Pol Roger) long enough to observe the MASSIVE change in style brought about by the pilfering of the inventory and resultant decrease in age of the Orange Lable brought about by its being subsumed into LMVH???

EVERY major reviewer has completely changed its tasting notes, typically noting "citrusy, refreshing" notes instead of the rich toasty yeast autoliysis style of the real Veuve. Several have been stunned to find that the bottle picked in blind tastings as "obviously the Spanish Cava ringer" was the VC.

We have done "Pepsi Challenge" style tastings with hundreds of consumers and an overwhelming majority preferred Albert Le Brun, Bollinger and, especially, Henri Billiot to the VC and they are ALL less expensive.

If the alternative is Moet, by all means take the Veuve, if you have other choices use them.

Friends don't let friends drink Korbel, Roberto