Cheapest Place for 20 Bottles of Moët?

[Andy M]

We're holding a Christening party for my daughter with 100ish guests and I'm on the lookout for 20ish bottles of Moët & Chandon.

Any ideas of the best (cheapest) place to buy said bottles from?

Cheapest I've found so far is £20p/b

[whitechief]

Andy M said:

We're holding a Christening party for my daughter with 100ish guests and I'm on the lookout for 20ish bottles of Moët & Chandon.

Any ideas of the best (cheapest) place to buy said bottles from?

Cheapest I've found so far is £20p/b

Where abouts?

Most of the supermarkets do a bulk purchase disount.

[Andy M]

thegavster said:

Moët? Moët?

Ooooh, you'll get a pasting on here now .

IIRC, Virgin wines are competitive but there are always ~£40 off vouchers flying around the net so could be worth a gander.

Ha! What would you recommend?

Cheapest I've found is Tesco in conjunction with vouchers we have.

[autofocus]

Hi there,

I run a large beers, wines and spirits wholesale company and supply quite a lot of Champagne. If you are buying Moet for £20 per bottle then thats a pretty decent price. Most places retail it for around £25-£30 and from memory cost price inc VAT is around £21.00.

Regards

Tim

[whitechief]

Andy M said:

thegavster said:

Moët? Moët?

Ooooh, you'll get a pasting on here now .

IIRC, Virgin wines are competitive but there are always ~£40 off vouchers flying around the net so could be worth a gander.

Ha! What would you recommend?

Cheapest I've found is Tesco in conjunction with vouchers we have.

I don't know what the current one is like but this is an interesting article. I did have some of that particular year and it was excellent.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1497870/Tes...

[spikeyhead]

I reckon that Tescos or Sainsburys own brand vintage is probably the best champers you'll get below £50 a bottle, and its often to be had at £15

[Mobile Chicane]

All a matter of taste, of course, however I'm disgusted at the extent to which prices of even gut-rot 'champagne' have rocketed in recent months, to the point that it's difficult to find anything decent for less than £25 a bottle.

For my money, I'd buy Cloudy Bay 'Pelorus' at £17 or so a bottle, or if on a budget, Montana chardonnay / pinot noir at around £8.99 a bottle. So neither are 'champagne', however I can quite do without the yeasty, raisiny characteristic of cheap champagne. (Not to mention the 'head' in the morning.)

[Lefty Guns]

£20 is pretty good I reckon.

I bought 2 cases from virgin wines (auction) for the equivalent of about £15/bottle last Christmas but I think it was a one-off.

You could try Oddbins or an independant to see what discount they'd offer for that quantity...

[Lefty Guns]

I may as well be the first to ask...

Do you say Mow-ay or Mow-ett?

I'm a Mow-ett man..

[Bounty Hunter]

Lefty Guns said:

I may as well be the first to ask...

Do you say Mow-ay or Mow-ett?

I'm a Mow-ett man..

The people down in Epernay (where its made) say Mo ay - So I go with that one...

[Steve_T]

Bounty Hunter said:

Lefty Guns said:

I may as well be the first to ask...

Do you say Mow-ay or Mow-ett?

I'm a Mow-ett man..

The people down in Epernay (where its made) say Mo ay - So I go with that one...

The people who guide you round there on tours don't! So I'm a Mow-ett man too.

[Bounty Hunter]

Steve_T said:

Bounty Hunter said:

Lefty Guns said:

I may as well be the first to ask...

Do you say Mow-ay or Mow-ett?

I'm a Mow-ett man..

The people down in Epernay (where its made) say Mo ay - So I go with that one...

The people who guide you round there on tours don't! So I'm a Mow-ett man too.

Oh...

I did the tour a couple of years ago and they made it clear to me that it had no sound of a T

Maybe they just try to confuse Ze crazy anglish?

[Andy M]

Thanks for the replies. I've picked up a bottle of Tesco's, as per recommended, and will have a taste tonight

Lefty Guns said:

I may as well be the first to ask...

Do you say Mow-ay or Mow-ett?

I'm a Mow-ett man..

http://www.lucire.com/2002/0530ll0.shtml

[Lefty Guns]

Yep, he's a Dutchman. So the French are pronouncing it correctly if it were a French word.

But it's not.

And since Moet say "Mowett" on their TV ads, I think it's fair to copy them...

I got laughed at by some ruddy-cheeked guffawing pink-pin-stripe-suited retard in a restaurant a while ago for ordering it as "Mowett". The wine-waiter was nice enough to comment loudly that it was nice to hear somebody pronounce it properly.

[Workshy Fop]

Costco are about £18 if you buy it in a six-pack. I noticed they had a vintage Moet (though not DP) at about £28 the other day.

[thehawk]

Bounty Hunter said:

Lefty Guns said:

I may as well be the first to ask...

Do you say Mow-ay or Mow-ett?

I'm a Mow-ett man..

The people down in Epernay (where its made) say Mo ay - So I go with that one...

Not on any of the 3 tours I have been on.

[Noger]

I suspect there isn't really an answer, whilst it might be mow-ette in dutch, we don't always pronounce foreign names the same way as they are in the native tongue. Van Gough is not Van Goff or Van Go - it is more like Fen Houch with some phlem

No doubt further arguments can be had about Mow-ay for just Moët and Mow-ette for Moët-et-Chandon.

Tricky. I once gave a project presentation in French, and got the pronunciation of the phases (lot) mixed up and spent the entire thing talking about monkfish (lotte) !

£20 is good value.

Edited by Noger on Tuesday 14th April 11:45

[Andy M]

Workshy Fop said:

Costco are about £18 if you buy it in a six-pack.

Just checked: £135 for 6 bottles = £22.50 inc vat per bottle