to be mystified at people obsessed by prosecco?

[CockacidalManiac]

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.

FaFoutis Mmmmm.. chocolate shoes...

It's ironic that this thread should appear here, as Mumsnet is full of posters who admit to drinking well over the recommended limits and think it's ok.

I don't like it either. However I do think this is yet another stick to beat women with: look at you dumb bitches with your common sparkling wine which you only drink because you can't afford champagne / have an immature palate haha!!

And yet the men I work with who bang on about neat whisky, Portuguese red wines and specialty ales aren't ripped into in any comparable way at all.

My drinks of choice over the last 2 years have been craft beers and gin. If fact I have subscriptions to both of those on a monthly and quarterly basis! Doing a dry 2017 though, so it'll be interesting to see what my personality is under the swathes of pretentious cans and wanky gin and fruit combinations.

Cava/prosecco/champagne, it's all the same, it's sparkling white wine produced in varying locations.

Limoux all the way. Much nicer.

And people posting about boring friends on Facebook only have themselves to blame. 1. They are your friends, you friended them. 2. Use the unfriend, block or mute function.

Chocolate shoes and handbags were for sale in M&S last Christmas I think. Other places too. They made me furious because they said to me - you are a woman, this is you, this is what you like, in fact this is what you can be reduced to. Prosecco is being used in the same way.

I suppose men might feel the same about chocolate footballs and golfclubs. But probably not.

The hype surrounding it means that it's seen as a bit classier than it is and I keep getting massive bottles of it as gifts - everyone seems to think that everyone else likes it!

Cava/prosecco/champagne, it's all the same, it's sparkling white wine produced in varying locations.

No it isn't. That is like saying australian shiraz is like argentinian malbec. Or that a french sauvignon blanc is like an Italian pinot grigio.

Really annoys me when people say any champagne is great it isn't. Depends on taste. I dislike Bollinger for example. There are lots of limoux and prosecco that I personally prefer to many champagnes.

First it was Babycham, then Blue Nun, then Liebfraumilch, then Chardonnay, now it's Prosecco.

I wonder what will be next?

Move to Canada. They don't have prosecco.

Very little in the USA either

I'm an adult - I'm bloody well allowed to have a glass of wine without going all simpering and coquettish over it and all this "whoops it just fell into my shopping" tote bags doing the rounds do my head in.

This fucks me right off too, about chocolate/puddings/cream cakes etc as well as wine. It's always women who are meant to be apologetic over what we eat and drink, too.

Fuck off.

I dont like Cava. I enjoy Champagne. I love Prosecco to the extent when I was in Venice this year I did a two day tour round a few vineyards. It was really interesting, and I shipped home enough to the UK for a huge family gathering later in the summer.

5to2 It isn't ironic at all, seeing as 1. MN has thousands of members all with different opinions and 2. This isn't a thread about alcohol consumption, but about the weird recent fetishisation of one particular type of drink.

Hilarious about the girl becoming a goth because it's easier than a personality

Women become a massive homogenous clot of fluffy brained fools.

LOL

Yes, and Mary Berry's 'alcohol' face doesn't help.

I don't drink, I have been on nights out with groups that drink and groups that don't and much prefer going out with the non drinkers. I never laugh so much.
The ones that drink will say in the morning that they had a brilliant night but not sure if I was at the same evening or it is the drink that is talking. Couldn't have been more bored.

One of my dd's friends have pictures saying things like, it's wineoclock and keep calm and have a glass of wine etc all over the kitchen and seem deeply shocked that they caught their dd drinking.

I'm in New Yorks sixth borough. Here it's champagne from Napa valley. Its completely lost on these people that it isn't champagne. Drives me nuts.

Prosecco has an identity crisis here. In a culture where there is an emphasis on status symbols, prosecco really struggles with the 'cheaper alternative' label used in the UK. Here they have tried the 'refreshing BBQ wine'.

I can't tell the difference between Prosecco, Cava or Champagne.

But the people whose humour is based on the fact they enjoy a "cheeky Prosecco" - don't you sometimes wonder if they're the people with a bit of a wine problem? It's like if you make it into a hilarious joke then it's fine that you're on your second bottle by 6.30pm.

Agreed Sapphire. I'm a grownup and I like chocolate and wine. If I overdo them, it'll make me fat/hungover so I mostly try not to. End of. It's not naughty or cheeky or fraught with concepts of good or evil what women eat or drink.

No one had even heard of it 10 years ago. It's just sparkling white wine. My SIL posts a lot about her love and need for it. Yawn.

Not obsessed with it but had some at my cousins Halloween party- it was really nice- I'll be having some at Xmas too---- I can appreciate what the fuss is about

How an anyone say they don't like Cava but love Prosecco? There is good and bad amongst it all. But at the end of they day they don't taste hugely different. You could have a slight preference for one type over the other but it's just pretentious to say you love one and hate the other. I'd rather have a good cava than a bad champagne.

Malbec and shiraz are both red wine too. They taste slightly different compared to each other and I'm sure people have preferences for certain types but comparing two red wines is not exactly like comparing wine and beer.

I don't drink and even if I did, it wouldn't be wine. I don't have the palate for it, it's just vinegar to me. I need serious help and guidance when I buy it for other people otherwise I'll just pick a nice-looking label.

The post about the prosecco-filled teapot had me nodding too - I just want mine filled with tea, thank you very much!

... and greeting cards. Urgh. No witty ones anymore, just boorish and ridiculously punned 'drinking' ones as if that's all most people are.

I really hate how alcohol defines so many people, really hate it.