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to be mystified at people obsessed by prosecco?

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CockacidalManiac · 11/12/2016 13:59

Fully expecting to get a kicking for this.
On Facebook, in shops. People who seem to have their entire sense of humour based around wine.
Every post on Facebook is some crappy meme about wine o' clock, prosecco or a 'cheeky' glass of wine.

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BusterGonad · 12/12/2016 12:18

Call me old fashioned but I'll choose this over presecco any day!

to be mystified at people obsessed by prosecco?

user1480946351 · 12/12/2016 12:47

There is now a fizzy blue nun. With gold flakes in it, to attract the sparkly shit consumer. That does not mean it is the same thing as prosecco.

If people are going to laugh and sneer, they really should have a basic grasp of what they are sneering at, don't you think? Unless they want to look even more of a tit.

BusterGonad · 12/12/2016 12:53

I've tried he fizzy blue nun years ago, gross, just gross!

shovetheholly · 12/12/2016 12:57

I don't get the Prosecco thing either, though I understand the rage for bubbles. I just prefer Cremant de Jura for cheap sparkles - to me, the taste is more subtle. Aldi make one that's brilliant for about £7.

Butterpuff · 12/12/2016 13:31

To obsess about the stuff is mad. But, we do love to have an emergency bottle of bubbly in the fridge at all times in case we need to celebrate something. Prosecco is cheap and fits the bill, feels like a celebration and cheap enough that you can celebrate the most mundane achievements.

NicknameUsed · 12/12/2016 13:34

LordTrash I think you must have had the sweet Prosecco. Brut is very dry. I tend to prefer the Extra dry which is a little less dry than Brut.

I must be some kind of philistine because Cava and Prosecco taste the same to me.

MysticTwat · 12/12/2016 13:59

Didn't some chef a few years ago (might have been hestan) did a blind taste test of champagne but one of them was blue nun that had been put through a soda stream.

The result being blue nun was scored high up there with the expensive champagne.

MadameDePomPom · 12/12/2016 14:03

'we do love to have an emergency bottle of bubbly in the fridge at all times in case we need to celebrate something.'

That's a great attitude. Always ready to celebrate!

Yamadori · 12/12/2016 14:21

I had some red champagne at a wine tasting in Germany about 30 years ago.

That was... er... interesting.

Don't like Chardonnay - not because of its so-called chavvy/footballers wives connotations - but because I don't like the oak-aged tannin quality to it. Much prefer Chablis which comes from the same grape variety but isn't oak aged.

Not keen on Merlot either, (which was also 'trendy' for a while)because it is usually sold far too soon and isn't aged enough. 10 years+ and it will be reasonably ok though.

shovetheholly · 12/12/2016 14:25

"Didn't some chef a few years ago (might have been hestan) did a blind taste test of champagne but one of them was blue nun that had been put through a soda stream.

The result being blue nun was scored high up there with the expensive champagne"

Yes, but the "tasters" were just ordinary members of the public. My MIL can't tell the difference between chardonnay and sauvignon blanc when she tastes them - does that mean they taste the same? No. Does it mean she enjoys them the same amount? Yes, and there's nothing wrong with that!

MysticTwat · 12/12/2016 14:29

Err I wasn't saying it was a good/bad thing

Merely making an observation. You sound a bit prickly....

shovetheholly · 12/12/2016 14:30

Yamadori- For a lot of people I know, it's not just the oak but the whole style of a New World chardonnay that's the problem. A lot of people who have allowed me to experiment on them (!) and who have said they don't like chardonnay have turned out to like something like a Cote de Beaune very much. If you like Chablis, you might well like this style of Burgundian oaked white.

shovetheholly · 12/12/2016 14:40

mystic - sorry, I am probably a bit prickly but it wasn't aimed at you. PIL are the kind of people who go to a wine society every week. We have to go through a ritual where they taste everything in silence with their eyes shut and reverentially listen to their comments before we are allowed to get on and drink it.

The thing that really grates is that it's all a pretence and they can't really tell one wine from another. We first realised this when we were in a restaurant and the server got two glasses of white mixed up. I ordered a Chablis, MIL ordered a Sauvignon Blanc. I was in the loo when they arrived, and I returned to the table to find MIL waxing lyrical about the wonderful nature of this particular Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. She asked me to taste it - I did and realised straight away it was the Chablis. On tasting my glass, it was obviously Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. I couldn't say anything by that point without being rude.

This has happened once or twice since, some of it I suspect deliberatey caused by DH or BIL swapping the glasses over on the way back to the table. I have to do a quiet at them behind her back.

massistar · 12/12/2016 14:58

To the pedant earlier in the thread.. my husband is from Venice.. home of the Spritz which either comes con Aperol or con Campari. I have never ever heard it referred to as a "Veneziana" in my 20 years of drinking them in Venice!

As you were..

MysticTwat · 12/12/2016 15:02

Arhh no probs shove

user1480946351 · 12/12/2016 17:29

It used to be called Veneziana, particularly if made with Select, the name Spritz fell out of fashion for a long while since it was a german name, what with the drink being invented when Venice was part of the Austrian Empire.

Much more commonly known as Spritz/Sprizz now though.

EveOnline2016 · 12/12/2016 17:32

I like it but it's more of a weekend drink not for special occasions.

greedygorb · 12/12/2016 17:52

Prosecco is the best selling drink in our local Aldi by far according to the manager. I think it's the new alcopop. It's fizzy and just right for the ladeez. Specially if it's the pink variety. Gives me terrible heartburn.

I'm a gin drinker and all this gin hype does my head in. I still like a Gordons and my favourite tonic is co-op diet tonic. Best served in an old fashioned pub wine glass. I like a few of the craft gins but can't stand feverfew tonic. I can't bear alcohol snobbery.

user1480946351 · 12/12/2016 19:14

Why is someone liking other things to you, or in a different way, snobbery?
I can't bear people who make others out to be snobs when really its all their prejudice.

MrsMattBomer · 12/12/2016 19:24

I don't mind prosecco but fizzy wines aren't really my go-to ones. My first criteria in a wine is the ABV content is that it's not too nutty. I can't drink most white wines because they all seem to have that nutty flavour. If anyone has any recommendations for ones that don't, I'd love to know!

FeralBeryl · 12/12/2016 20:13

Damn all of you Aperol spritzer mentioning types! It sounded so. Ice I'm going to give it a go now

VioletRoar · 12/12/2016 20:17

Totally with you op!