The range
Sparkling wine from Australian prosecco and traditional-method cuvée through to grower and grande marque Champagne — Chandon, Jansz and Brown Brothers alongside Moët & Chandon, Veuve Clicquot, Mumm and Piper-Heidsieck.
Australian sparkling shiraz is here too, which surprises people who have not had it: dry, red, properly sparkling, and a genuinely good match for Christmas ham.
Two sub-styles have their own pages: prosecco from the King Valley and the Veneto, and Champagne proper.
31bottles. Every one with a reason written against it.
Champagne · France
We stock it because the prestige champagne shelf should not be only three houses deep. Deutz sells on what is in the bottle rather than on the strength of its label, which is exactly why it belongs here.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$469.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because a serious champagne list needs a top to it. Most of the shelf turns over on Moet and Veuve; this is the bottle for the anniversary, the milestone birthday and the gift where the box matters as much as the contents. One or two move a month, and their absence is noticed more than their presence.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$662.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because vintage Krug is close to the top of what can be bought in champagne. It sells rarely, and it sells to people who know exactly what they are asking for.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$982.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because it is the top of the gifting range. At this price the buyer is not comparing bottles, and there are perhaps three names that qualify.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$971.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because the vintage champagne shelf needs more than one name on it. Bollinger is the house most often asked for after the big three, and La Grande Annee is its serious wine.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$395.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because Yellow Label brings customers in and La Grande Dame is where they go next. Carrying both means the Clicquot buyer never has to leave.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$456.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because Cristal, Dom Perignon and Krug are the three names the prestige champagne shelf is judged on. Missing any one of them gets noticed.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$529.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because it is the default answer to a request for something special. More gift and celebration searches land on this name than on any other bottle in the range.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$590.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because blanc de blancs is a distinct style, and the prestige shelf should represent it properly rather than leaving it to the Pinot-led houses.
750 mL12.5%10.0 std
$450.00
Yarra Valley, Victoria
We stock it because it is the bridge between Australian sparkling and champagne. It carries a name customers already trust at a fraction of the champagne price, which makes it the easiest step up on the sparkling shelf.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$49.99
Tasmania
We stock it because Tasmanian sparkling is the category Australian wine is currently winning, and Jansz is the name customers already know. It anchors the shelf between Australian sparkling and champagne.
750 mL14.0%7.4 std
$48.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because Krug is the champagne that champagne people buy. It is the clearest signal on the list that this is a serious range.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$590.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it is number six in the state and number two nationally. It takes the place of two flavoured wine spritzes that outrank it locally, which are a different drink wearing this category's name.
750 mL13.0%7.7 std
$10.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it is number two in the state on 16.45%, and because it is the least expensive way into a style most people have only had at someone else's house.
750 mL13.0%7.7 std
$10.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it holds 21.62% of the segment in New South Wales and is number one nationally, and because sparkling shiraz on an Australian Christmas table is a tradition no imported bottle can replace.
750 mL13.0%7.7 std
$15.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because it holds 27.41% of the champagne segment in New South Wales - more than one bottle in four - and because for most people this bottle is what the word champagne means.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$82.99
Reims, Champagne · France
We stock it because it is number three in the state on 16.3%, and because it is the point where champagne stops being two brands and starts being a category.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$70.99
Reims, Champagne · France
We stock it because it is number four in the state and the only one of the four brought in by ALM's own import arm rather than a brand company, which usually shows in what we can buy it for.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$72.99
Champagne · France
We stock it because it is number two in the state on 21.45% of the segment, and because between it and Moet, half of all champagne sold in New South Wales is one of these two bottles.
750 mL12.0%7.1 std
$97.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it is number two in the state, and because the same wine is on shelves in eighty countries - a customer who has had it in a hotel in Singapore can find it here.
750 mL11.0%6.5 std
$15.99
Pipers River, Tasmania
We stock it because it is number five in the state and the only serious sparkling rose in the list. It takes the place of a second, nearly identical Yellowglen bottling that outranks it - a shelf with two of the same wine on it and nothing above forty dollars is not a category.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$27.95
Australia
We stock it because it holds 32.83% of the sparkling rose segment in New South Wales. One bottle in three sold in this category is this bottle, and no other line in this range comes close to that.
750 mL11.0%6.5 std
$9.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it is number four in the state and because Jacob's Creek is the name most often written on a shopping list where the list just says sparkling.
750 mL11.5%6.8 std
$11.49
New South Wales
We stock it because it is number five in the state and it is the prosecco that sits under the King Valley bottle, and prosecco is the only sparkling style whose sales are still growing.
750 mL11.5%6.8 std
$11.99
King Valley, Victoria
We stock it because it holds 5.96% of the sparkling white segment in New South Wales - the largest share of any single wine in this entire range - and because it is number one nationally as well.
750 mL11.5%6.8 std
$16.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it is number two in the state, and because most bottles of sparkling wine sold in this country are opened for a reason rather than chosen for a flavour - that customer needs a price, not a lecture.
750 mL11.0%6.5 std
$8.99
Yarra Valley, Victoria
We stock it because it is number four in the state at four times the price of the bottles around it, which tells you the demand is for the method and not only for bubbles, and because it is the bridge between the eight dollar shelf and the eighty dollar one.
750 mL12.5%7.4 std
$32.99
Veneto · Italy
We stock it because it is number nine in the state and the only imported prosecco to rank, and because a customer comparing King Valley to the original should be able to do it in one order.
750 mL11.0%6.5 std
$19.99
South Eastern Australia
We stock it because it is number six in the state and the cheapest bottle in this whole range, and because there is a real and regular demand for sparkling wine bought by the half dozen.
750 mL11.0%6.5 std
$7.99
King Valley, Victoria
We stock it because it is number seven in the state and number two nationally, and because between this and the De Bortoli bottle the King Valley owns the category outright - which is a better story than any imported prosecco can tell here.
750 mL11.5%6.8 std
$14.99
Australia
We stock it because it is number three in the state, and because Yellowglen between its white and pink bottlings is the most bought sparkling name in New South Wales by a distance.
750 mL11.0%6.5 std
$8.49
