Common sense about sparkling wine - buy the Tasmanian

Champagne versus prosecco or sparkling wine: Choosing a good bottle is all in the bubbles — Quartz:



I have become a proud Tasmanian again. This Christmas and New Year I have eschewed champagne and delighted in the sparkling wines of my old home state. Mass produced champagnes of the major houses like Veuve and Moet and Mumm can not compete either in quality or price with the Tasmanian offerings.

This comment by an American wine writer gives the commonsense view:

Sparkling wine’s tiny and delightful pockets of air do not come from special bubble farms on the French countryside. ...There’s no reason you can’t make just as good of sparkling wine in other parts of the world,” says Robin Goldstein, a wine critic, behavioral economist, and the author of The Wine Trials.

I could not agree more.


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