{"id":2322,"date":"2022-11-14T10:40:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T10:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2023-02-10T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T14:04:27","slug":"best-budget-french-champagne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/best-budget-french-champagne\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Budget French Champagne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You love Champagne don\u2019t you ?<\/p>\n<p>Mo\u00ebt &amp; Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger, Ruinart are but a few names of the prestigious Champagne producers but did you know that in France we have 4700 farms producing Champagne? So out there, there must be some hidden jewels waiting to be discovered and shared without earning the GDP of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The rising star at $25\/Bottle, &#8220;Champagne Collision&#8221; from maison Xavier Loriot is a 100% Pinot Meunier Champagne that reached 17\/20 on Gault &amp; Millau ranking where most leading families (Bollinger, Cliquot, Ruinart\u2026) reach 15 or 16 for three or four time the price.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Champ01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>France twice MoF (Best Crafstman of France Sommelier and Ma\u00eetre d\u2019H\u00f4tel) Antoine Petrus recently recommended a $30, Emmanuel Brochet\u2019s \u201cLe Mont Beno\u00eet\u201d champagne. Only producing 8000 bottles\/year this classic Pinot noir, Pinot meunier, Chardonnay champagne will match any white fish dish.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for a subtle Champagne to be enjoyed on its own, search no further, for $22, Philippe Gonet\u2019s 100% chardonnay \u201cBrut Signature, blanc de blancs\u201d will meet all your expectations with its very fine bubbles and delicate flavours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Champ02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And for a little touch of colour and $28\/bottle Olivier Horiot\u2019s \u201cS\u00e8ve\u201d champagne ros\u00e9 (in wines, Champagne is the only designation allowed to use white and red wines to obtain the ros\u00e9 colour), the result is a surprisingly nice smooth and structured fruity flavour.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Champ04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So you can see no need to be a Cheik to enjoy nice Champagne and if you are adventurous I would even recommend you to venture into the world of Cr\u00e9mants (bubbly wine, produced with the Champagne technics but outside of the Champagne region) with a strong advice for Vouvray from the Loire Valley.<\/p>\n<p>When visiting us most of our tours will give you the opportunity to try either a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/paris\/\">champagne or a cr\u00e9man<\/a>, do not miss it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You love Champagne don\u2019t you ? Mo\u00ebt &amp; Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Taittinger, Ruinart are but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,798],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-tours-paris","category-local-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2335,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfoodtours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}