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As Veuve continues to become ever more ubiquitous, its price keeps rising. Sure it's decent and easy to obtain, but you can find many other champagnes that offer you a higher price to quality ratio.


As slamdunkpro stated in the Thanksgiving wine thread, Montaudon Brut is a great value (and if you think $27 is good, the price I was getting for restaurant sale was nuts).

Comte Audoin de Dampierre is another good somewhat under the radar selection.

As far as mainstream products go, I would select Bollinger, Pol Roger and Laurent-Perrier ahead of Yellow Label.