'Champagne Taste on a Beer Bottle Budget'

Champagne taste on a beer bottle budget is called mousseux in France: it's like Champagne but it isn't actually produced in Champagne. It could be a couple steps away from Champagne and then it cannot be named Champagne. For a tenth up to a quarter of the price.

I liked beer for a minute and on really hot days, I still enjoy a Mexican beer with a ton of fresh squeezed lime. I love Champagne and have had some memorable nights drinking it.

I think it's Twemendous.

I prefer Champale. In a six-pack.

Anyone remember Cold Duck? High school and puking.

Pink, r4?

Champagne. Perfume going in, sewage going out.

"I'd love to be in a beach house all by myself so I could walk on the sand and go for a swim (and skip the gym). In the evening, I'd put on my grubbiest clothes and open a bottle of Champagne. I did this for myself once before: I found a bottle of (a well-known special cuvee Champagne) in my fridge and realized I didn't know what I had been saving it for. So I spent the evening on my couch, nude, eating a frozen dinner and drinking the Champagne very slowly. There's something very relaxing about drinking Champagne --- while you're not wearing a cocktail dress."

Napoleon is rumored to have said of Champagne: "In victory you deserve it, in defeat you need it."

Madame de Pompadour is reputed to have said: "Champagne is the only wine that leaves a woman beautiful after drinking it."

Noel Coward is reported to have said, " Why do I drink Champagne for breakfast? Doesn't everyone?"

Rudyard Kipling observed, " If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne."

I’m sure I do but I have no memory because I was too drunk on champagne.

Do you see me in a jaguar with all the accessories

And one of those accessories is you?

Well with my champagne taste and your beer bottle pocket

Take back your jaguar accessories etcetera

And drive back to your dreamland without me

And if I wanted diamonds you'd offer me breakfast at Tiffanie's

And luncheons at Cartier's you'd recommend

Well with my champagne taste and your beer bottle pockets

You will have to work-on something better than a zircon

Because your diamonds of this girl's are worst friend

You said, "You'd promise me anything to make my life a feast"

You didn't give me anything, not even arpege you beast

And it wouldn't surprise me if a lady like Godiva

Had someone like you to give her the stole

For with her champagne taste and your beer bottle pocket

When she couldn't get those dresses

She just let down all her tresses and forgot she was a lady after all

If you want a wine that tastes like champagne, buy "méthode champenoise" - wine made exactly the same way as champagne. Champagne is a regional and legal appellation. Méthode champenoise wines include CAVA (Spain), Franciacorta (Italy) Crement (France), and various boutique wines in many countries. I know of 2 in Switzerland, a few in Germany and UK (!), Australia. California makes Méthode champenoise bubblies and sometimes it's the French champagne houses owning those California vineyards.

FYI - prosecco is not méthode champenois, no matter how delicious a Prosecco can be, it is just a different method.

Did somebody call me?

what champagne are you guys drinking for the holidays?

There’s nothing worse than a champagne hangover.

Champs as Heather refers to it.....

R1 you're not very knowledgeable. Champagne is made by La méthode champenoise. Several wines in France are made by méthode champenoise. Australia and the USA make it. Even England makes it, now. Yes, only wine from the Champagne region is officially "Champagne". méthode champenoise can be used in any country. Switzerland, Italy, and Spain have méthode champenoise bubblies. Italian méthode champenoise is called Franciacorta. Spanish is Cava. Italian Prosecco is NOT méthode champenoise, but it is bubbly, so it is mousseux - which just mean sparkling. My favourite French méthode champenoise that is not champagne is Crémant d'Alsace, with many bands being inexpensive and refreshing. I love Franciacorta but it is NOT cheap, and can cost more than non-vintage champagnes.