Unlock the secrets of festive wine and champagne shopping with our latest episode, where we reveal how to snag top-tier bubbly without breaking the bank. Curious about how to find irresistible deals on holiday champagne? We’ll walk you through the enchanting world of GH Mum Brut Grand Cordon Rosé, a standout choice from the Grand Cru vineyards that’s both elegant and delightfully complex. With its predominantly Pinot Noir blend, this champagne offers an exquisite balance of crispness, brioche notes, and a smooth finish—perfect for elevating your holiday celebrations.
If you’ve ever felt the thrill of landing a $50 bottle for just $25 (at a local Chicago Chain Store), you’re going to love our insights on finding the best wine bargains this season. With wine sales taking a dip, many shops are slashing prices, offering you the chance to explore upscale flavors at a fraction of the cost. We’ll also give you a sneak peek into our CheapWineFighter.com feature, where we dive into budget-friendly finds like a promising Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon. Keep your spirits high and your wallet happy as we guide you through a season of affordable indulgence. Cheers to a holiday filled with great wine and even better savings!
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Holiday Champagne and Wine Purchasing Tips
Speaker 1
0:05
Welcome . It's a domain date for CheapWinefightercom , with kind of the start of our holiday party season with the wine , an upscale wine , and there's a story to be had behind this on what to be looking for this holiday season when you purchase wine . What I've got today is the GH Mum Brut Grand Cordon Rosé Champagne . It's normally see on the internet , I saw , for like $50 to $65 . This is not a wine that a cheap wine finder would be doing . Normally we would try to find something from California or maybe from different parts of France where the prices aren't so high , but this was at one of the largest wine chains in Chicago area and beyond $25 . The Grand Cordon Brut not the Rosé was $50 . This is the Companion . It's the same house-style wine , only this is the Rosé , and Mums is known for their Rosé , their Pinot Noir . This might be the more desirable bottling and it's half half price champagne . It's like my luckiest day . And here's something Wine sales are off by 8% and all these wine shops out there are going to go . We need to try to make that up in the last month or last yeah , about the last month . There's only about five yeah , about a week to go before we hit December and you're going to find sales . You're going to find wines that you're going to go , you know . So follow their flyers , follow your local shop's internet , and you're going to see wines that if you're not even thinking about buying it , it's at a price you have to buy it at . I mean , you're going to go , I'm going to go in for that and that's what they want . They want you to go in and you buy one , and the price is so good Maybe we should buy two . And they're going to try to make up that 8% this holiday season Because , you know , the last thing they want after New Year's Eve is over . They don't want any wine in their warehouse , they want to sell it all off as much as possible , and having 10% , 10% more isn't good .
Speaker 1
2:32
So what is this GH Mumbrut Grand Cordon Rosé Champagne all about ? First of all , the Grand Cordon is a red ribbon or a slash that is awarded to the highest quality champagnes , and the bottle has this red ribbon across it and for the length of the bottle it's an indentation . It is really classy looking . You want to show off , you put your thumb in there and you go oh my , that's really nice .
Speaker 1
3:03
I mean just the presentation , simple but effective , and what this is is mostly Pinot Noir , and a lot of it is from Grand Cru Champagne vineyards . And then you got Pinot Mouinet , and Pinot Mouinet is one of the three grapes . It's a red grape and then followed by Chardonnay . So a Blanc de Blanc wine is white from white . That's a Chardonnay wine .
Speaker 1
3:33
A Blanc de Noir is a red-based one , and that could be Pinot Noir and Pinot Mounais . So what's a rosé Champagne has white juice , pinot Mounais has white juice , so they just pull the skins out of that and it's white . And that's why champagne looks like a white wine , but Pinot Noir has color to it . So what they do is they pull the skins like they would for many Pinot Noirs , because a Blanc de Noir is a white wine from red grapes . But they also ferment about 15% of the Pinot Noir on skins , which gives it tannins and that type of thing . But they don't want too many tannins because that's going to give it a richness that they don't want for champagne , which you want this length , and you just want this subtle cohesiveness of the wine . So they blend in from the white the skinless skin contact , no skin texture , pinot Noir in with that , and there you go . So you've got the red wine , kind of in a not the easiest way in the world to do it . It's something they only kind of do in Champagne France , though anybody else can do it , but it's kind of you're putting more effort into it . So there you go , and plus it's the second fermentation .
Speaker 1
5:01
Pinot Noir is a ferment at once and then they bottle it . After they blend it , they bottle it and they put a little bit of yeast , a little bit of sugar in every bottle , put a temporary cap on it , turn it a quarter turn every three days for two years . The minimum is 18 months a year and a half . So this is six months over that . And the longer you have it in that bottle , the more the bubbles get incorporated , because the fermentation process , eating the sugar up , does give up carbon . It does give the bottles , but it's got nowhere to go . So it goes back into the wine and it also gives a creaminess because the yeast in there also adds that to the flavor . So after two years . So this is a legitimately nice champagne , better than nice . Mum's a great champagne house .
Speaker 1
5:52
Go and have a sip . It's got great length , it's got crispness , it's got really nice fruits , touch of brioche to it , a little bit of crusty bread , a little bit of vanilla , great acidity . It's got length . It kind of goes on for a while and it kind of disappears from your mouth . It's Brut , which is a dry wine , but it's like the . Of all the dry designations , it's the sweetest , which might sound weird , but that's what I'm saying . But it kind of disappears in your mouth a little bit , which is good champagne should do . It should hit your palate and then kind of disappear A little bit different than a red wine which will you have this length and it kind of get chewy and stuff . No , this champagne , you shouldn't be doing that with champagne . This has this almost kind of disappears , not quite because it's not that dry . The drier the wine , the quicker it'll evaporate on your palate . But it starts to do that . That's a really nice thing , starts to do that . That's a really nice thing . Couldn't resist . Took another sip . It's got a really balanced , really nice flavor to it .
Speaker 1
7:11
They did their GH . Mum's been around since the I think it's 1826 . I mean , it's been around for a long , long time . I think it's going on its 200th anniversary in a couple of years and their rosé wine is from 1952 . So that's a good long time too .
Speaker 1
7:26
And they're kind of renowned for their rosés and their use of Pinot Noir , which is my personal favorite . I like I mean , I've never turned down a champagne-based Pinot . I mean champagne , but I kind of prefer the Pinot Noir , pinot Monet thing , and Pinot Monet is a grape you rarely see any other place other than other than champagne , but it's in a lot of the wines . You just don't know it . So this is the way I like
Finding Bargains on Wine and Champagne
Speaker 1
7:55
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Speaker 1
7:55
And at $25 , half price champagne , that's the way I really like it . So there you are Look for bargains . Wine shops are going to want to get you in the door . They're going to be looking for different ways to go . Oh , look at that price . We should buy that . Remember it was $45 last month and now it's $20 ? We've got to go and get that . So there you go . This is Domain Dave , cheapwinefightercom . Three times a week we write up a review of value-priced wine , and half-priced champagne is value-priced and then we put it on the website CheapWineFightercom and we plug in the microphone and here we are right now talking to you and about to say adios , keep it cheap . Bye-bye , I've got a couple of days or so I've got a Paso Robles Cabernet Sauvignon inexpensive , one back to inexpensive . So , adios , keep it cheap and have a nice holiday . Adios , bye-bye .
