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Prosecco - Is it this era's Blue Nun?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Will all you Prosecco drinkers 'do a Judas' and deny your commitment when it becomes hidiously unfashionable and the next one comes along?
Asking for a friend."
Prosecco,,,£5-£6 a bottle.
Champers,,,£30 (for a bottle of the 'cheap' stuff).
After a couple of bottles of Prosecco,I can't tell the difference anyway.
I'll stick with what I like and,besides, the fashionable drink nowadays is, supposedly,Gin.Can't bloomin' stand the stuff. |
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Prosecco will be so last year in a couple of months. The next big thing is the flavoured gins coming in which are pretty nice compared to normal gin
If Its wine your after. I’m afraid black tower and a good red wine vinegar are on the way back
I’ll stick with Guinness and whiskey |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm not much of a grape based alcoholic drink lover, although, I quite like a Bellini.
My dad used to give us an Asti Spumante at Christmas with our dinner, but I prefer a drier sparkling wine. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What about mateus rose? We all used to burn candles in the empty bottles and the coolest people had bottles covered in candle wax."
We now use empty Jack Daniels bottles(we get through quite a lot). |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I don't mind prosecco, I didn't mind lambrini. If I like the taste of something I'll eat it whether it's fashionable or not. I still eat prawn cocktail  "
Lambrini bottles are very pretty too. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I just hate the way girls bang on about Prosecco on Facebook like it's something amazing "Oh Em Geeeeee hunz it's Prosecco time!" or "Prosecco with my ladies" and sharing various Prosecco memes.  "
We have vodka time or time to hit the JD ladies. It's all about getting together with family and friends to get d*unk. |
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"I'm not much of a grape based alcoholic drink lover, although, I quite like a Bellini.
My dad used to give us an Asti Spumante at Christmas with our dinner, but I prefer a drier sparkling wine. "
I don't like anything sparkling with food, it fills me up too much. In fact cava, champagne and prosecco are the only fizzy drinks I like. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Anything that requires to be served as close as possible to zero degrees and made fizzy to be enjoyable, arouses my suspicion. Better than a lot of expensive champagne though. But then so is a lot of cheap champagne by all accounts. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm not much of a grape based alcoholic drink lover, although, I quite like a Bellini.
My dad used to give us an Asti Spumante at Christmas with our dinner, but I prefer a drier sparkling wine.
I don't like anything sparkling with food, it fills me up too much. In fact cava, champagne and prosecco are the only fizzy drinks I like."
I only drink tap water with food. Alcohol spoils the taste for me. |
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By *uzie69xTV/TS
over a year ago
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Blue Nun is just a bit of marketing for Liebfraumilch, a sweet German wine.
I like any sparkling wine so Prosecco is nice, trendy or not. Its just another Italian wine.
There are loads of other sparking wines... Try any of the "Cremant"... As Decanter says: "French Crémant such as Crémant de Loire and Crémant de Bourgogne can offer good value versus Champagne and a different style to Prosecco."
My fav is Crémant de Jura - which is only about £7 from Aldi... |
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"What about mateus rose? We all used to burn candles in the empty bottles and the coolest people had bottles covered in candle wax."
God yes! I remember that.
By the way, I read recently that prawn cocktail is enjoying a renaissance. What goes around... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Prosecco is too sweet.
Love champagne, but bank account dictates otherwise!
Cava is a lovely alternative.
X"
They’re all pretty much the same, the name comes from the region it is made. Prosecco is Italian, cava spanish and Champagne from the champagne region of France. Pretty much the same thing tho with varying qualities in each. |
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"I just hate the way girls bang on about Prosecco on Facebook like it's something amazing "Oh Em Geeeeee hunz it's Prosecco time!" or "Prosecco with my ladies" and sharing various Prosecco memes. "
Exactly this. It's the total fashion thing and it's so corny. |
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By *lue NarwhalMan
over a year ago
Iceland, but Aldi is closer.. |
Drink fads have been around for ages but have grown significantly in the last 20 years...
It really kicked off with the alcopop era with martini metz and hooch being the biggies. It has evolved over the years and seems to have grown up a little with prosecco, along with a real ale resurgence and more recently the gin fraternity getting busy.
I don't think prosecco will become unfashionable, unlike blue nun and black tower that were insipid, after all its fizzy and tastes ok so the perfect fun drink for a night out with friends..
What the next trend is, I cannot even imagine... |
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Prosecco only became cool when they renamed it, it was already a fad when they used to call it Asti Spumante.... Brilliant marketing.
But to be fair we had a €15 bottle of single vineyard stuff in Italy last year that knocked out socks off so y there is good stuff out there |
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By *azNdavCouple
over a year ago
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"Drink fads have been around for ages but have grown significantly in the last 20 years...
It really kicked off with the alcopop era with martini metz and hooch being the biggies. It has evolved over the years and seems to have grown up a little with prosecco, along with a real ale resurgence and more recently the gin fraternity getting busy.
I don't think prosecco will become unfashionable, unlike blue nun and black tower that were insipid, after all its fizzy and tastes ok so the perfect fun drink for a night out with friends..
What the next trend is, I cannot even imagine..."
Gins of various mixes and added flavours will carry on for a while but Rums are starting to be more prominent |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Prosecco only became cool when they renamed it, it was already a fad when they used to call it Asti Spumante.... Brilliant marketing.
But to be fair we had a €15 bottle of single vineyard stuff in Italy last year that knocked out socks off so y there is good stuff out there"
Asti tends to be much sweeter than Prosecco and spumante just means sparkling.They are not the same wine.
The fashions may come and go but the wines have been around for much longer,and will still be with us for ever,I hope.
Flat Prosecco tastes like chardonnay to me. (not that I'd usually leave it long enough to become flat). |
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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago
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I can only get Prosecco down if I have it with Chambord. It gives me heartburn otherwise. It is a fashion drink and will pass I think. Gin is the latest craze it seems, it’s been cleverly marketed. Ive been on the gin (so to speak) since I was 18 and whatever else I may try, I always come back to a good old G and T |
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By *lue NarwhalMan
over a year ago
Iceland, but Aldi is closer.. |
"Prosecco only became cool when they renamed it, it was already a fad when they used to call it Asti Spumante.... Brilliant marketing.
But to be fair we had a €15 bottle of single vineyard stuff in Italy last year that knocked out socks off so y there is good stuff out there"
Prosecco is a frizzante as it is lightly sparkling, a spumante is more like lemonade on steroids with regards to fizz and has definitely had more than one blast in the soda stream.
Prosecco is also solely produced in the Vineto region of Italy unlike other Italian sparkling wines which cannot (or at least shouldn't) be called Prosecco. |
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