Weekend wine with Blake Creedon

IF you haven’t yet stocked up yet for tonight’s fun, there are still plenty of options for festive fizz and I take a look at some of the best value ones below.

The Monistrol is the one I’ve chosen for my own festivities.

If I needed a second, I’d pick the Borgo prosecco. But really they’re all good. They’re also great value. Due to the revolution in sparkling wine in the last decade — particularly led by Australian and Spanish wine firms — you can now bypass Champagne entirely which is the best news yet. So you can ring in the New Year and ring out the old by saying goodbye to being overcharged — not just because times are tough but just we don’t feel like it, okay?