I do not like prosecco or champagne

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I dislike the taste, it knocks me for six so I never drink the stuff. When offered a glass, I politely decline and have some wine instead stating publicly that I don't like it/cannot drink it. It has been this way forever. So big birthday has come and gone and my drinks cabinet has been replenished with fizz. Fuck sake, if I was vegetarian people wouldn't present me with meat. Arrrggghhhhh - feel guilty for feeling ungrateful and cross.

Have you actually told folk you do not like fizzy plonk?

Why not see if any of your Prosecco loving friends would swap your fizz for a bottle of still wine from their own rack, OP? Or you could regift the fizz to others as birthday presents.

Ah I re read. You have told folk.

You can donate it to me, I'll give the bottles a good home!

Yes. Every time. That's what is so annoying.

It's like everyone who is close to me doesn't actually take in what I say. It's like an assumption that everyone likes fizz because it's a special occasion so who wouldn't. It's so ingrained in the cultural psyche that they cannot comprehend that someone doesn't like it.

I state in in small groups, large groups, one-to-one groups. Every time a bottle is uncorked and I'm offered some I state that I don't drink fizz because I don't like it. But no-one takes heed.

Can you drink it when it’s mixed with orange juice or any other juice. Pomegranate is nice with fizz.

I can just about tolerate a glass of bucks fizz but the thing is, once opened a bottle of fizz has to be consumed. It's not like a wine which can be drunk at leisure over a few days. I'm really not a big drinker.

I'm just feeling a little peeved that no-one actually pays attention.

It is a bit of a first world problem OP.

Regift the bottles maybe?

I generally do. Or take them to events where they will be consumed by others.

I don't really drink and I am not a fan of prosecco. I love it when someone buys me a bottle though because I can regift it.

Yanbu. I have similar trouble with beer drinkers. If I say no thanks I dont like it they carry on pestering me to drink it. When I say no it makes me fart like a bastard, well somehow people seem to accept that.

We dislike wine, Prosecco, champagne etc.

We just regift it/serve it to guests if we end up with any. Occasionally it will be used in a cocktail.