If you're a newbie to buying champagne, it can be daunting to choose one, as there seems to be so many choices available. If you are giving champagne as a gift though, buying just any champagne bottle won't do. To stand out, why not give them a personalised bottle of champagne, engraved with your wishes, instead? However, before we move on to that, let's first learn to choose a bottle of champagne. A Beginners Guide to Champagne To buy the right champagne to suit your needs, it's necessary to understand the various categories that a particular champagne can fall under. Let's have a quick look at these categories. The first category is brand. Different champagnes come under different brands, depending on where they were made. If you want to buy good quality champagne, I suggest you go for the original brand of champagne, which comes from the region of Champagne in France. The taste of their champagne is rich and unbeatable. The second category is flavour. Champagne can have one of six different flavours: extra brut, brut, extra dry, sec, demi-sec, and doux. The order I have mentioned is from very dry to very sweet. Since you are buying a gift, it would be helpful to know the preference of the person you are gifting it to.