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la veuve cliquot, yes. there are a few grades of her fine fine beverage, which you can modulate as the need be (socially speaking, what you feel is required)----piper-heidsieck is similar but a bit dryer.
most of the bigger name champagnes gouge you for the name factor and the beverage is often not as good as the above. nota fan of moet, for example, unless you get to the millesime range (the vintage year bottles--champagnes made from the best of a given years harvest have the year on them and that's the category: they are more expensive and vary like any vintage wine does).
i dunno: what i remember of my 21st birthday can be summed up in the old saw "dressed up to get messed up" and the quality of the champagne would not have been as big a deal as the fact of it---a bottle of the widow's "basic" yellow label nectar runs about 35.00 (in philadelphia)--so get a few.
luckily, i cant speak to champagne hangovers.
wine and related liquids are in general pretty brutal.
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