For champagne to be a memorable wine, you unfortunately have to pay very dearly for the bottle... very expensive... but then, we say to ourselves that if we had paid this price for a wine without bubbles, we might have be better spent your money...
I love champagne, but I'm not a snob and like more and more French people, I taste all French wines with bubbles: Montlouis, Vouvray, Blanquette de Limoux, Clairette de Die, Crémant du Jura, Crémant d'Alsace and Crément de Burgundy...and there are wonderful things in each of its appellations. Particularly Burgundy, Alsace and Vouvray... The Bordeaux region has also gotten into it and is doing things that are not bad at all...
And as I am not a nationalist, I also like certain Spanish Cava, Argentinian and Brazilian "champagnes" which are quite remarkable... The Brazilian Chandon is a marvel, like their Salton, their Casa Perini... if Matthias comes here. ..