The Best Cheap Champagne for Under $20 a Pop | Taste of Home

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Next time you raise a glass to toast, know that you don’t have to spend the big bucks to get a good glass of sparkling wine. In fact, the best cheap champagne feels just as special as a pricy bottle. But before you jet off to the store and fill your flute , check out our Test Kitchen’s top sparkling wine picks.

Whether it’s the holidays or you just have something special to celebrate, a bottle of bubbly is always the right choice. It’s an iconic marker of special occasions.

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We Sampled 20 Bottles Under $20

For this test, our Test Kitchen team (many of whom are serious bubbly fanatics) sampled a whopping 20 kinds of affordable champagne in a blind taste test. That’s right—no peeking!

But a few words on this cheap champagne taste test. To start, sparkling wine can only be called Champagne if it comes from the Champagne region of France. If the wine comes from another region—even if it’s elsewhere in France—it’ll be called by another name. This being said, champagne (with a lower case ‘c’) has become the shorthand phrase for sparkling wine.

So for this test, our team used this expanded definition of champagne. They popped open bottles of all kinds of bubbly like Prosecco (an Italian bubbly), Cava (a Spanish sparkler) and even American sparkling wines. Each brand our team selected was under $20 and was scored for fizz and flavor.

Now check out our Test Kitchen-Preferred cheap champagne options!