There are now some wonderful sparkling wines on our list but people seem to revert to champagne if spending much over £10. What a shame! The best wines are made by the champagne method, now know as the Méthode Traditionnelle, which involves fermentation in bottle, riddling, disgorging a plug of sediment and dosage with a slug of reserve wine and sugar. Many New World sparklers are made by the Transfer Method and usually labelled “Bottle Fermented”, this means the bottles are decanted into pressurised vats for racking and filtration thereby avoiding the expensive latter stages of the Méthode Traditionnelle. They often represent excellent value for money.