One of America’s Best Sommeliers Blind Taste Tests Sparkling Wine Under $15 

Man, first time I've seen some one taste wine without coming across as pretentious

I remember the “Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante” TV commercials when I was a kid in the ‘70’s, and never thought it would make the cut in this video!

Dude, I love all your guitar work on the Blur albums. Absolute legend.

Ahaha "smells like banana now and laters" This is exactly the level of wine tasting that I'm on...

I'm so happy right now to be french, living in the Champagne area. As a winelover, I certainly have acces to the best of best in terms of Champagne (real one) ! For REALLY REALLY cheap (some vintage blanc de blancs grand cru are findable for 15 €) Trust me for fact: best Champagne aren't from big Champagne Houses but from independent winemaker!

Wow I'm impressed he identified the Moscato just from the smell! He knows his stuff.

Yeah this is seriously the best channel. Would be nice to see some more stuff on hard alcohol. There are only a couple of high quality videos that cover alcohol with this level of expertise.

I love these videos. Keep putting them out!!

There's a bunch of good sparkling wines made using the the méthode champenoise that can be had for 15 - 20 $. Many Cavas and Crémant de (insert geographical location in France) use that method and generate good results for less than 20 $.

I like this guy! Of the sparkling wines you reviewed, I had Martini & Rossi Asti, and Korbel before. I am glad that someone agrees with me that Korbel is not very good. Korbel seems to be trying to promote itself as better than the cheap stuff and on the verge of being good. I didn't think so. I liked Martini & Rossi, although it was a little too sweet for my preference. I would definitely take it to a party. Pardon me for my ID being in Korean.

Loving this series. Keep it up!

Love your honesty and your sense of fairness in tasting some of this plonk. Great series.

I like Cooks's brut. $7 gets you 1.5L of that stuff. Great alcohol/price ratio!

Martini Asti, delicious on a warm summer night. In Austria its only 8.50€ per bottle ;)

The Martini Asti is what we keep in the fridge for Thanksgiving 🍽

If you can get your hands on it, I highly recommend the aged variant of the Martini Ross Asti. It's aged for like 1-2 years and it just makes it taste even better. If you can find it in a store somewhere, it's typically only $1-2 extra compared to the standard Asti.

"Something definitely was lost in the translation here though" I see what you did there, Patrick!

I have only just recently seen your work, and I LIKE it a lot! I was surprised to not see a Cava on this?

"Thanks France...." HAHAHA

5:11 when my tinder date shows up and he’s nice and smells good

Need more of this guy!

I’ve gone through my own tasting through inexpensive sparkling over the years, and I definitely have to say the Martini and Rossi: Asti is my favorite.

@4:22 That was a great joke. I’m sure he felt so proud of himself for that one 😂😂.

its too bad they gave him predominantly shit wine, and didn't offer actually decent drinkable options under $15. freixenet cordon negro, gloria ferrer, cristalino, segura viudas are all decent and under $15 if not $10.

If given the choice between a bottle labeled as an American sparkling wine and an American Champagne, always go with the sparkling wine.

They should sneak one or two $1,000 bottles in these taste tests so we can hear them shit on something expensive.

Any chance to get Patrick to do a video about up and coming new world wines?

This is super late, and I've watched this multiple times, but the fact that you guessed Muscato for the Asti is amazing, saying that it's like real Muscato too (which it is)

Love his confidence! "nailed it!"

Inspired me to take a trip to the Delicato Winery Across the freeway from my house. Never been there for a tasting but why not it's complimentary.

Nice work !

At a tasting recently, I had a great very inexpensive sparkler. Treveri Cellars Blanc de Blanc is fantastic, and normally comes in at $13 or so.

Love this!

Korbel: “like they put it through a Soda Stream” 🤣

He has so much fun doing this 🤣

This guy reminds me of Andrew Neeme who does poker vlogs. I don't even know what it is, maybe because he is a real person and likes what he does and I appreciate that. Passion about your craft people are awesome. Keep this good series going.

Freixenet for the money is good. Same price range. Should have tried that one. Segura Viudas is also good for the money. Both very drinkable.

i LOVE the VIDEO GRAFICK Indulgence keep it up wineny tasty :D

As usual I'm late to the party, but I was laughing so out loud. Thanks I need that.

"I hate shitting on your wine Francis but you make it so easy"

Martini and Rossi is my favorite

love the videos and the rhythm great !!! might just point out that there are some great bargain sparkling but one really do NEED to look the right way... there are tons of great value Cava's... Prosecco's and Loire ... Maybe when in Europe easier to find as straight from producer or likely ... enjoy the bubbles

yeah Martini!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not sure if it's Patrick, or the editing, but I could watch him tell us what tastes good all day. Any chance this guy has a biography out? How does a person get to be a top sommelier? Is he a super-taster? So many questions!

Good information indeed.

Can get some good sparkling wine here in Australia for that price. My goto is an imported French drop called "Sieur d'Arques Grande Cuvée 1531 de Aimery" which is comparable to Moet.

THANKS FRAAANCE! Lol

“Thanks France!” Haha 😆

It's nice to see that the Bubbly Bella is still crushing the competition after all these years!

Great! Keep it up!

Asti Spumante is hard to top, but Golan Heights Winery also produces sparkling Moscato wine that's just as good as the Martini original. As a bonus for my Jewish chums out there, GH's take is kosher too.

No Friexinet Brut or Blanquette de Limoux?

1:24 Ok, that's impressive. He definitely knows his shit.

Try some prosecco. I find you get more value for your money

Cooks is my go to for mimosas lol

The one I drink won!!! 😂 love my cheap pallet

Thanks Patrick we have the same taste.

Hey Indulgence, when you do pinot noir, can you put this wine 'Meiomi Pinot Noir Monterey-Sonoma-Santa Barbara Counties' into the blind tasting? It's a bit more expensive than 15$ but Wine Spectator rated it 92 points and put it at number 20 wine of the year. I didn't quite like it tbh, so I really want to know what will Patrick think of it.

It's not a blind tasting if you know ANYTHING about the wine whatsoever. A more interesting test, which would have really put his skin in the game, would be to have him (truly) blind-taste a flight of wines across the spectrum, and try to place for each the varietal(s), the region, and the winemaker. Hardly any sommelier is will to do that unedited for public consumption. The folks from the movie Somm could have, probably.

Is it really a blind taste test if you TELL them they're all cheap wines?

nailed it

I really like veuve ambal blanc de blancs. I wonder what he would think?

Why didn't you bring in Barefoot Bubbly?? It's under $15 and the Brut Rose is my fav

I stock several cremant under $20 that are delightful!

Im tasting..... gravel.........hmmmm...tumbled in the tears of a melancholy Red Panda.....Great acidity. I'll give that an A+

I work at a high end city club that serves Korbel 😂😂

only just started watching this channel so I might not be caught up, but what's with the playboy logo?

Ah the French champagne has always been celebrated for its excellence!

I fucking love this guy!

Would have liked to see Cristalino Spanish cava, personal go to cheap sparkling.

Cava / Clàssic Penedès enthusiast here; I think that Cava is unbeatable in the sparkling-wine style, if you take average price into account. I can certainely appreciate the complex yeasty (here's a new word for you non-winos: empyreumatic) notes of champagne, but I think that if you're willing to go into the $60-$100 price range, you can find some dazzingly high quality products in Spain, Raventós' Gran Reserva Personal comes to mind. And sub-$60, you can get various degrees of complexity of pure freshness. Fruity aromas (I get a strong lemony-citrus nose in most cavas I've tried) and yet almost never any residual sugar. If you're new to the Spanish sparkling wine world, here's a few tips : the three grapes you'll be looking for are Xarel-lo, Parellada, Macabeo. Xarel-lo is kind of the star. You'll sometimes see a bit of Chardonnay thrown in for a rounder mouthfeel. Also if you can swing it, it might be worth it to go Organic, I personally feel as though it's preferable in the fermentation doing it's thang without being overtly tampered with by chemicals (might be just me though, each wine producer is different so maybe I've just landed on better ones that happened to be organic). Sub-$60 cavas are often priced by production size more than anything, save for a few noble exceptions, around 20-25 dollars tends to be the best bang for buck. And lastly, don't be afraid of Rosé Cava, it's a widespread misconception that Rosé is sweet, most of it is absolutely bone dry, difference is that it's been left to sit with the grapeskins for a few hours. it adds a floral aroma, in my experience. Winemakers to look for: aforementioned Raventós, Loxarel, Viñedos Familiares S.L..

Mmmmhhh The Martini Asti really is good

Have him try a bottle of dom perignon blind and see what he says...

Lol Martini and Rossi head and shoulders above the rest, good to know.

Try a few South African MCC's... most are around $15. You'd be surprised. Colmant, La'Venir, Brampton, Villeira, Simonsig...

Banana Now and Laters... wow that took me back

is wine that expensive in US? in Germany you can by extraordanary wines for about 10 to 12 Euros. We have some wines that cost about 3 Euros and they are very decent

Try out Indian Sparkling wines all around or less than 15 dollars.... Look out for Grover Vineyard (especially Grover soiree) , Chandon, Sula.

Man, his glasses are too short, it's weirding me out how they touch his ears

"thanks France". Haha

Can you truly be a wine sommelier if you know exactly what you’re drinking, it’s price and background BEFORE tasting it? Ehh, why do I still love watching these videos?!

I hear there's thousands of new Vineyards open up every year let the torture commence! 😂

i live in germany , near the french border, an for 15 $ you can get multiple bottles of good sparkling wine here

Cooks Brut F Martini Asti B+ Trader joes Blanc De Blancs Brut D- Francis Coppola Sofia F Korbel Brut D Piper sonoma B

how about friexinet

'Californian Champagne' 😂😂😂

Enjoying these tasting videos

Been to Korbel winery. Really is method champagneoux

this guy is hilarious

Glad to see the sparkling wine I drink got a B+. What can I say, I like it a little sweet.

I want to have this guy's job.

I been saving a bottle of Cooks to try for the first time with my sister and now am not so sure I even want to open it... Sadly I can't return it...

He drinks the wine like he's angry with it.

I know nothing about wine except for the stuff we tasted in Belgium.. that wine evaporated in your mouth and went straight to ur brain..

Patrick, wished you were provided a wider global range of sparklers under $15 like a Crement de Bourgogne, or Mousseaux de Limoux (sp?!), or a Sparkling Gruner Vetliner (sp?). Oh well. I enjoyed watching this anyways. Cheers et Sante to you!

To say it was a blind tasting of cheap wines is a contradiction. You have already calibrated your palette by identifying them all as cheap wines.

I wanted an Andre tasting lol

I would say I would have liked it better if he hadn't known that the wines were "cheap" and they tested him on a range of price points so we could know he identified more expensive wines generally better than cheaper ones.

Disappointed that it's all American wine aside from the Moscato D'Asti. There's lots of decent cheaper sparkling wine out there. Prosecco, Cava, and Sekt from Italy, Spain, and Germany respectively are all much cheaper than champagne. Bubbly from regions of France other than Champagne is an option too, typically referred to as Cremant de (regional name). Cremant de Loire,. Cremant D'Alsace, Cremant de Bourgogne, etc. Gonna be real here, champagne on average really is worth the hype. I absolutely love the stuff, but I also typically can't afford to drink it. That said, there are other options that are pleasing to drink and are affordable on a more regular basis .

How can you do a blind test if you already know what you are tasting?