Psssst - Have I got a cheap red wine for you!

Wine experts, be they sommeliers and critics or shop clerks and collectors, are routinely asked: "Can you suggest a good wine for under $15?"
Robin Goldstein, who worked his way through Harvard and Yale as a freelance travel writer and critic for the "Let's Go" and Fodor's guide books, has come up with his own answer: "The Wine Trials: 100 Everyday Wines Under $15 that Beat $50 to $150 Wines in Brown-Bag, Blind taste tests.

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The World's most Expensive Champagne

In yet another way for those who want to show their useless, but expensive bling and excess..... Pernod Ricard is launching a new champagne at a price that will make Cristal and Dom Perignon look like two-buck Chuck.

The world's most expensive champagne, popping the records at 4,166 euros (6,485 dollars) for a personalised bottle of bubbly, goes on sale Thursday targeting a "super-rich" global elite.

The limited edition 12-bottle box sets of Perrier-Jouet champagne will be priced at 50,000 euros, according to French drink firm Pernod-Ricard. Sales will be limited to a "community of super-rich" consumers in theUnited States, Britain, Japan, China, Russia, Switzerland and France.

"We are going to sell these box-sets to 100 people around the world who will have a chance to customise their own champagne, the ultimate luxury,"said Perrier Olivier Cavil, head of communications at Perrier-Jouet. "Each buyer will come to Epernay, in eastern France for a one-on-one meeting with our cellar master Herve Deschamps, and will personally add a 'liqueur' to personalise the bottles," he said.

Belgians like champagne

Belgians are the world's most habitual champagne drinkers per capita. That's according to figures released the daily De Morgen.
Last year, Belgium imported 9.3 million bottles of champagne, but figures for 2007 should set a historic record of more than 10 million.

This means that on average, every Belgian citizen drinks one bottle of champagne each year as there are about 10.6 Belgians. Worldwide, sales figures for champagne are boosting. Until now, almost 400 million bottles of champagne have been sold worldwide this year.