Prosecco, overated cheap wine

Good Housekeeping tried and tested

1. Morrison’s 89/100 £10 The best Prosecco DOCG
2. Harvey Nics 83/100 Valdobbladene Prosecco superiors £16

Champagne under £45
1. Champagne bollinger special cuvee NV 83/100 £45
2. Herbert Beaufort grand cru 79/100 £35 Marks and Spencer

Oh delicious SirChenjin!
Everything that Callistemon said!

I enjoy a good, dry Prosecco. Plan one or two with Christmas lunch. Good job we aren’t all the same .

Had a lovely lunch, today and this was proceeded by 7 bottles of Prosecco between 20. Made a great start to a very boozy lunch. I'm not knocking it. Bring it on, I say.

I rarely drink but when I do a glass or two with a dash of rhubarb and ginger gin liqueur from Edinburgh Gin goes down a treat. Loud and proud!

Is that peach schnapps Sleepygran?
Have you been having a taster?

Lovely with a pea ha naps in it!

In Veneto, where it comes from, people were used to drink Prosecco. The rest of Italy then discovered it as well. Finally it became worldwide known. Due to the insufficent production, to meet the increased demand, the Valdobbiadene area of origin has been enlarged to other areas nearby. This new Prosecco is cheap enough to be sold
abroad, usually at doubled price. Italians don't keep good Prosecco for to themselves. Traders ask for cheap wine. If you buy directly online from wineries, you can save a lot of money. The problem is the high cost of expedition.

I can recommend Prosecco from LIDL. Very good price and like most of LIDL's stuff, it tastes excellent. Already stocked up with a load for Christmas, but the way it is going, I may have to buy more. My drink of choice is a nice Scotch and LIDL's Queen Margot is smooth and drinkable at a very reasonable price. Trouble is, I drink far too much of it.
Some people like tea and some like coffee, as far as I am concerned, if you like something, enjoy it, if you don't, then leave it alone, but don't denigrate others for their legitimate tastes. If we were all the same, life would be exceptionally boring. Prosecco for those that like it. Port for those that like that, although I have never found Port very thirst quenching, but I do like it. Goes well with Brandy and cheese.

That’s it in a nutshell really, Callistemon - we all have different tastes, and something that one person thinks tastes divine, another will think it tastes terrible. So, although cost can play a part in the quality of the wine (but not entirely), personal taste plays an important part, too. ?

glammagran I bought two bottles of Nyetimber for a special occasion but found it rather too yeasty for my taste although I do like some other English sparkling wines.

whilst the ones who go for the port are my kind of people.
we know what to avoid now then.

guaranteed to make women giggly and loud fast,
That's the spirit!

Giggly is better than grouchy and rude.

They tend to be mindless airheads whilst the ones who go for the port are my kind of people.
Esspee really! how rude.

I can now add mindless airhead to the list of names I have been called by GN members.
annsixty
There's good and mediocre prosecco, there's good and mediocre all kinds of drinks, even champagne.

Each to their own

Out of interest, has anyone heard of Marquis de la Tour Brut? We won a bottle in a raffle recently but I can't find any for sale on the internet (out of stock) so it could be quite old and terrible - or it could be a classic worth thousands!

Champagne is my fave. But my cheaper version is Spanish Cava, beats Proseco hands down.

MadMaggie cheers ?

I live in the prosecco region. You need to get DOCG (protected and authentic).

I'm with you GrannyGravy13 - cheers!

I have had good and bad prosecco and champagne.
They are very different. Why compare them?
The only thing they have in common as wines is that they will be in the "sparkling" collection!

Champagne is also overated- its too dry for me

Peace and goodwill as I raise a glass to all fellow airheads, complete with bubbles, hiccoughs and giggles and to all the super intelligent boffins who prefer something else the same wish for peace and goodwill. Merry Christmas.

Well, you can be sure that something dismissed in insulting terms, will turn up a few years later as the next 'find'. How many sherry revivals have we lived through?

Awful stuff.... my daughter offered me s bottle 6 weeks ago, that she had been given, I refused as I didn’t like the stuff...noticed yesterday it’s still sitting in her fridge. Can’t give it away to anybody obviously

annsixty, you are not alone. Blue Nun and Black Tower are now slightly embarrassing memories. I was aghast when my cheapskate ex brother-in-law (a Kiwi) brought in a bottle of Blue Nun one Christmas when they were staying with us. I had thought at the time that it had ceased to exist! Another brand I remember was Hirondelle, in litre bottles. Plonk indeed, but we didn't know any better in the '70s.

Nasty stuff.