If you are buying fizz to a budget or want something fruitier or sweeter than Champagne, then read on. The best wines are made by the champagne method, now known 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.