There's loads of French champagne selling from $30 to an eye-watering $943 a bottle for the Billecart-Salmon Clos Saint Hillaire. Cellarmasters has a bottle-fermented bubbly from France's Burgundy region selling for $18.

There are some very classy Australian sparklers available, for example the $61-a-bottle multi-vintage House of Arras Tasmania Brut Elite 1501, judged the top Australian bubbly in the 2019 Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships.

The wine was made by House of Arras chief winemaker Ed Carr. Last year he received the Champagne and Sparkling Wine World Championships Lifetime Achievement award.

The champion House of Arras Brut Elite 1501 is available at houseofarras.com.au and fine wine stores. Likewise the Tasmanian chardonnay-based House of Arras 2009 Blanc de Blancs, a gold medal winner. It sells for $107 - expensive, but I found it a superbly multi-faceted and sophisticated wine.

There are more budget-friendly ways of getting fizzical at New Year and here are some that have recently come to my tasting bench:

Shaw Wines 2018 Sparkling Cuvée, $25 100 per cent-based on owner Graeme Shaw's four hectares of semillon in his vineyard near the NSW village of Murrumbateman, in the Canberra wine region. It has refreshing lemony flavour underpinned by cashew nuances. It's at shawvineyards.com.au, bottle shops and the Murrumbateman, cellar door.

Three Ponds 2019 Xrissi, $29 From the Hunter Valley Mount Eyre operation of doctors Aniello Iannuzzi and Eve Tsironis, this semillon and chardonnay-based bubbly has crisp grapefruit flavour integrated with Granny Smith apple, flint and brioche characters. Xrissi is Greek for gold and the name honours Eve's mother Xrissoula. Get it at mounteyre.com and The Garden Cellars at Hunter Valley Gardens.

Charles Pelletier Non-Vintage Grande Reserve Blanc de Blancs $18 It's French, but from Burgundy. It is a creamy cremant-style with ruby grapefruit, mineral and biscuit elements. Imported by the Vintage House arm of the Angove family wine company, available in independent bottle shops

Campo Viejo Cava Non-Vintage Brut Reserva, $26 From the Spanish arm of the giant French Pernod Ricard wine and spirits group. The Campo Viejo winery is near Logroo in the province of La Rioja, famous for its rioja reds. This sparkler is an excellent buy with its multi-layered, elegant white nectarine and citrus fruit characters, yeasty undertones and refreshing slatey acid finish. It is widely available.

Perealda Non-Vintage Stars Organic Cava, $20: another fine-value Spaniard, in this case from the Province of Girona in Catalonia. The Castillo Perelada wine operation has been owned for three generations by the family of founder Miguel Mateu, whose father Damin founded the legendary Hispano Suiza automobile company. This bright, fresh sparkler is a base-wine blend of the Spanish xarel-lo (45%), parellada (30%) and macabeu (25%) varieties. It shines lime green straw in the class and has complex characters of green apple, citrus and gunmetal. Buy it on cellarmasters.com.au

Mezza di Mezzacorona Non-Vintage Glacial Sparkling, $20: with its effervescence imparted by Charmat bulk tank fermentation, this bubbly from northern Italy's Trentino Region has a base wine mix of, 60% chardonnay, 30% pinot bianco and 10% muller thurgau from the cool-climate foothills of the Italian Alps. It's is a fruity drop with elements of melon, peach and passionfruit. Imported by Single Vineyard Sellers, it can be found in independent bottle shops.