somebody coming in here trying to check minus_me on his champagne game huh
huh
okay
I aren't trying to check anyone. Feel free to drink whatever you want, I hate people telling me what to drink too.
But from where I am from, in south Australia, where they make some of the most highly rated reds in the world, you can buy two or three awesome bottles of Shiraz or cab sav for the same price as one decent bottle of champagne.
It's a no brainer for me.
The reason why champagne is commonly used as a celebratory drink is because it was the expensive stuff in France, so only used by the wealthy and for special occasions. It's a symbolic thing these days, you drink champagne when you celebrate something is a tradition.
If I want to get drunk on bubbly white, it's definitely not champagne but some local crap I mix with orange juice or make kirs with. And even then, I haven't really done that since I was a kid.
Edit: I forgot to add, I won't be drinking this bottle of champagne after all. My brother and his wife had a baby today and when I just went in to see her she was talking about how the doctors and nurses were talking about Friday night drinks during the delivery (this is in an Australian private hospital) and what they were going to drink. My sister in law said how much she had missed alcohol and so I am going to give her the bottle of Moët tomorrow as a gift.