Fizz: Champagne, Prosecco or Cava?

Personally, I think a fizz that you like, whatever it's called, is fine.

I'm a massive champagne fan, and loads of our firends are loaded (we're not!) and when we go to their's for anything we have teh real deal. however, I don't freel bad in any way that we're proposing ot serve alternative fizz.

You can get decent prosecco on sale, or Cava at full price, for about £5-£7 and provided you (or someone close to you that likes fizz!) says it's not rubbish, then that'll be fine. *Must* taste nice, though. Not just cheap for thesake of cheap. this is, in my opinion, perfectly do-able ?

We're having pre-christmas drinkies at ours with some friends and have bought a sleection of cheaper fizz with which we shall be conducting blind tasting! We've printed cards for coments/scores too - the winner will likely be selected as our wedding fizz of choice !

HTH

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That is a brilliant idea! Can I nick it?

Can you also share your scores with me?

What leicesterbride said, as long as it tastes nice i dont think it matters if its a £50 bottle or a £5 bottle, like the idea of a taste test though x

We're going for a demi-sec sparkling wine. My dad is seriously into his wine and this was his suggestion as he felt a demi-sec would appeal to the greater number of pallets. personally i think going for actual champagne is unnecessary on this occassion. a lot of people won't see the bottle and if you shop around you can get stuff that tastes great, without the price tag.

Like above, for our table wine we did a wine tasting with friends at home. was great fun!!

A good quality Cava is better than a budget-conscious Champagne.

I think a taste test is probably the way forward, but i can see us getting trollied if there are, say, 6 bottles to test between 4 or 6 of us. ouch!

Completely agree with leicesterbride and Footlong, we had Prosecco at our wedding, I personally prefer a good prosecco to plenty of champagne and certainly any I could afford to serve to a lot of people!

We had lambrusco at our engagement party and loads of people commented how nice it was and asked what it was and where it was from.......£2.28 per bottle from Asda!!!

I LOVE Prosecco. Always gets my vote, much easier to drink than champagne xx

I'm a red wine girl too, but do like a nice pink Moet. However, we are having cava on our tables and I've bought some pink Moet to give out to family / guests.

Would you recommend any particular ones to try? Why is it easier to drink?

Lighter, fresher, more crisp, less sophisticated a taste (which is not necessarily a bad thing).

We had 'real' Champagne but only because we got it at an amazing deal... Sainsbury's were selling Lanson and Heidsieck for less than half price and then offered another 10% off if you bought 6. We had to do quite a few trips, four people at four different tills, buying bottles until we had enough! We also had a venue with no corkage fee so it worked out to be affordable... about £12 a bottle IIRC.

The bottles of champagne and the red/white wine were out at the beginning of the evening and then given out at the bar, so we wanted to have nice-looking labels haha!

If we'd been at a more 'normal' wedding venue though with more expensive bar prices it'd probably have been prosecco, as some other ladies have said I find it preferable to Cava and easier to drink.

We are supplying our own Fizz for the toast and after working many years in event management had decided that I didn't want 'real' Champagne as lots of poeple don't like it and the others (mostly) don't know the difference. Having said that we were just about to go for the real thing but I changed my mind at the last minute.

Whilst we were at our wine supplier I learned some useful information. Apparently champagne is fizzy because of the fermentation process. Sparkling wines such as Cava and Prosecco have the fizz added afterward (like fizzy pop). This means that the Champagne bubbles stay longer - this is important for us as we are serving Hibiscus Flowers in our 'Fizz' which may mean that it is poured away from the table and served in the glass. (therefore time taken to get from bar to table). However you can get a 'champagne process' sparkling wine - made the same way as champagne but not in the champagne region. The one we are getting is Austrailian and was around £11 per bottle from our supplier, less than half the price of champagne.

I came across those yesterday for the first time and was wondering about using them for the wedding. Are they a gimick or do they do anything to the drink apart from look nice?

We served champagne for the toast (and for getting ready in the morning!) and a NZ 'champage' (Deutz - Majestic wine) for general quoffing.

Which you serve should depend on what you like to drink and your budget. I'd prefer a decent quality prosecco over a cheap champagne. Also, if you're on a tight budget I'd avoid the sweeter stuff as it tastes cheap.

They do look pretty, they give a slightly sweet taste too. We are going to buy a Jar to try over Christmas but I'm 99% sure I want them. Going back to the thing about the Fizziness though - the sugar in the flowers will make the fizz go quicker, hence the need to use with a Champagne or Champagne process wine x

We had champagne at the church straight after the wedding for everyone which we had bought at the venue we had prosecco.

We're having a French (non Champagne region) methode traditionelle vin mousseux for everything. Had it many times with my parents (from their favourite vineyard) and knew we like it more than most Champagnes. The vineyard is in Valencay, in one of the main French winemaking regions and the Fizz cost 5.50 Euros/bottle. It's not far from Champagne really, but as it's not in the "right" place it doesn't command the extra for the name. Also helps buying by the case direct from the maker...

I personally like champagne, prosecco, and cava - in that order ?