Thresher’s £9.99 champagne

So much for a shortage of champagne. Thresher, Britain’s largest surviving high street off-licence chain, was advertising Dubois-Caron NV champagne, apparently reduced from £19+ to £9.99 yesterday so I picked up a bottle from my local branch to check it out.

To be honest, I was expecting the quality to be dire. There are few wines worse than poor quality cheap champagne, which exists in profusion. I tasted it blind alongside Perrier Jouët’s current non vintage blend (recommended price £23.99) expecting the difference to be obvious from the first sniff. In practice I had to put a little bit...