Like we needed an excuse to get together and drink champs! oh ok maybe a guilt free one because anything for research right? Doing our bit for the community, blah blah blah… Ha! It has been a long running dispute in my group of school mum friends that the there is no difference between the real French Veuve and the Aldi Veuve, actually to the extent where some mum’s (albeit being cult Aldi fans) believed they preferred the Aldi one more.
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Having been a well, well…well… seasoned drinker of the real Veuve, I was more than certain the taste is completely distinguishable between the two. But the big test was which one did we prefer?
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I seized the moment by inviting over 24 women to put this argument to bed. Do we really need to spend a fortune on champs? From Moet $80-$90, Piper $50-$60, Dom perignon $220,Louis Rogederer Cristal $309 and perrier-joust $220 and veuve around $80 is there ACTUALLY really a difference and do you need to mortgage your home for a quality glass of bubbly??
So my beautiful friend Sam set up a blind tasting and voting system. As the women walked through the front door they received a glass with a pink bow, then a glass with a white bow. Whichever one they “preferred” the most, they put the same colour token as the champs glass bow into a vase.
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Look I am NO scientist but we did have VERY strict conditions. You were allowed a refill or six… just in case you couldn’t make up your mind … but you were not allowed to drink anything else until you had voted, I think the lab boffins refer to this as a “controlled environment.”
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After lots of sipping and chatting and giggling and sipping… the votes were in and I was sooo shocked!
Over our meal of Thai food (I was too busy being a research scientist to cook ok!?) the winner was announced and the most preferred champagne by a big majority of the women turned out to be the Aldi Veuve Olivier at the crazy price of $7.99!! (Sorry Posh Veuve…)
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The census was that it wasn’t as “bitey” with it’s flavour, a bit smoother and really easy to drink…but in hindsight as I spoke to some of the girls the next day… maybe we should have had the variable of which one would give you the worst hangover…..