A supermarket's own-label champagne has come top of a blind taste test ahead of famous names, according to a report.

Experts voted Tesco's �12.99 bubbly better tasting than better-known champagnes such as Moet and Chandon and Bollinger.

The supermarket's Premier Cru Champagne Brut NV was not the cheapest of all the bottles tried, but it came out as favourite.

The taste test was carried out for the consumer magazine Which? using seven wine experts, none of whom knew which bottles they were trying.

'Great price'

Moet and Chandon, price �20.47 a bottle, came 13th in the list of 24 champagnes and 11 sparkling wines, while Veuve Clicquot, at �23.99, did slighter better coming in at 11th place.

Bollinger, the most expensive champagne tried at �27.99 a bottle, was in 12th position.

Helen Parker, editor of Which?, said: "The good news is that you don't have to splash out or buy a well-known brand to enjoy delicious champagne.

"Sometimes buying the label is part of the fun, but if you want a great tasting wine at a great price, you couldn't do better than a �12.99 bottle of bubbly from Tesco."

Grapes

The bubbly voted second best was Champagne H Blin Brut 1996, available from off-licence chain Oddbins for �18.99.

In third place was G H Martel and Co Prestige Brut Champagne NV, priced �15.99, sold through Safeway.

Grapes of a different kind were causing a stir for Tesco last week, with news that three different customers each found a black widow spider in their bag of fruit.

The supermarket chain admitted that a drive to use less pesticides in its food could mean more spiders turning up in bags of fruit, but denied that it was using the black widow variety.