Champagne for wedding

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A bottle of Champagne will be enough for toast for 8 people. A standard pour would be 1 bottle = 6 glasses but if it is for toasting you can get to

Your selection is very good but, do you think it will be appreciated? if you are going to meet and toast, I suggest getting a good Champagne but not over the top stuff. The big houses have millesimé Champagnes that are good wines and will let you concentrate on the people and not on the wine.

If you want it to be a great brand, let's say Dom Perignon, I would purchase 4 bottles of the current vintage (1999?) and save the 1990s for a dinner with your daughter and her husband in their 1st (or 5th, or 10th) anniversary.

Obviously, perhaps your friends and family are really into wine and they will appreciate a 1990 Dom Perignon better than a current release. In which case all that I wrote is nonsense.

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Bad idea. With this allotment you'll have to decide which 10 people get to drink the 1990 Dom, which 5 the GD and which 5 the Sir Winston. Someone's feelings are going to be hurt unless you really plan on giving 1 ounce pours of each.

I'm with Santiago, unless it's a bunch of real wine folks you'd be better off toasting with a younger wine, and saving the mature tete de cuvees for a dinner. If you do want to go with those 4 bottles, that's plenty for 20, even if one is corked. To deal with the "feelings hurt" issue JB mentions, I'd put them all out and let people choose what they want to try.