Add a French sparkle to this festive season

Dec. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- With Christmas and New Year just around the corner, few things accompany a meal with friends and family as well as a deliciously decadent bottle of Champagne. Fusing the luxurious with the contemporary, wine merchant Majestic Wine are now stocking the 2002 vintage of Moët & Chandon's prestige cuvée win. The Dom Pérignon Andy Warhol Limited Edition 2002 Champagne is available as a special mixed case of six bottles.  

An iconic tribute to a painter, printmaker and avant-garde film maker, the pop art bottles are clad in three different colour way labels, in tribute to the artists’s use of colour. The red, blue and yellow labels are eye-catching and unique and sure to be a conversation starter at any festive table. Majestic’s mixed case contains a pair of each of the three designs, wrapped around six bottles of perhaps the world’s most famous Champagne.

The 2002 vintage, one of Moët & Chandon's prestige cuvée wines is specifically designed to show the individual characteristics of the vintage in which it is made. Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's chef de cave, highly regards the elegant 2002 Champagne, remarking that "the first hints of fresh almond and harvest aromas immediately open up into preserved lemon and dried fruits, rounded off by darker smoky and toasted qualities...Concentrated yet creamy, it is energetic and warm in the mouth, focusing on the fruit."

Britain is one of the largest consumers of Champagne in the world, testament to a love affair stretching back to the 17th century when the first bottles made their way from France to the English nobility in the 1662. Fittingly, Majestic has a typically wide range of both vintage and non-vintage sparkling wines, perfect for celebrating Christmas and ringing in the New Year.

The Moët & Chandon Brut Impérial NV Champagne is a popular choice. Extremely crisp and clear, it boats flavours of citrus aromas and biscuits. It is perfect to enjoy before a meal and at £24 represents great value for money for Champagne of such heritage.
Likewise, the Veuve Clicquot NV Champagne regularly garners rave reviews – it was awarded the IWC NV silver medal and the Decanter NV silver medal. Often lauded as one of the best tasting Champagnes on the market, it is powerful but fresh and packed full of fruity flavours, offset with fine and rich bubbles.

For those on a tighter budget, sparkling wine is a great alternative to Champagne. The Extra de Codorniu Brut NV is a light bodied Cava that includes flavours of green apple, citrus, almond and brioche. Emanating from the Spanish region, this sparkling wine has definite class and flavour and is priced at under £10.

To find out more and browse Majestic’s entire range of Champagne and sparking wine, visit http://www.majestic.co.uk/

About Majestic Wine UK
Majestic Wine Warehouses is the UK's biggest and best retailer specialising in sales of wine by the mixed case, with 155 stores throughout the UK. Majestic offers an extensive range of superb wines in large quantities, giving real choice and value.
Majestic’s staff is passionate about wine and are always on hand to give advice on what to buy. Majestic are also the only wine retailer to operate a FREE delivery service for cases of 12 bottles throughout mainland UK. For gifts of less than 12 bottles Majestic operates a Gift Solutions service at http://www.majestic.co.uk/About/GiftSolutions Majestic’s minimum in-store purchase is just six bottles, giving even greater choice and flexibility.
Majestic Wine are also different from mail order and internet wine merchants, who may try to tempt you with artificial savings on a mixed case of indifferent wines. Their promotions often last several months at a time and boast hundreds of multibuy offers, which represent genuine savings. They are famous for their 'one-off' special parcels, which are worth looking out for!
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As Majestic sells wines and spirits with a minimum purchase of 6 bottles in-store and 12 bottles online or for delivery we can offer an extensive range of superb wines in large quantities, giving our customers real choice and value.