Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane View Post
Well - it's usually a very decent sparkling wine. I terms of quality and taste a good champagne certainly beats the standard sparkling wines that you get in supermarkets.

Of course that does not mean that you cannot get excellent stuff from e.g. Germany ("Riesling-Sekt") or Italy. Also you certainly do not have to pay 100 EUR or so to get a good bottle of champagne.

Just as with wine - in the end you decide what you like and the variety of sparkling wines or wines in general is just to large to say "this one is the best"

However, if you are willing to pay more you tend to get a better product in a given category (that you can get the same quality for 5 EUR as for 30 EUR is not really true) but just going by price does not help either

Or is your question rather what the attraction of sparkling wine in general is?
The last. I can't say I've tasted top quality champagne, so sparkly wine has never besotted me. Of the wine I've tried, I liked the homemade elderflower stuff the most. That was strong, had a deep flavour, and was flat.