To want to know why normal wine gets me pisseder than fizzy wine?

[PassiveAgressivePenguin]

I don’t get it? I’ve had one Friday night (large) glass of normal flat wine and I feel a bit tipsy. However when it have the same sized glass of prosecco I’m not so pissed. Yet it’s the same percentage? Also if I’m ever on a night out, I can easily guzzle a bottle —or two— of fizz , yet a bottle of wine would have me spewing like something from a horror film.

Why? What’s the gravy? Surely the difference is just a Sodastream or whatever? Is it feet? Do they still crush he grapes with feet? Am I allergic to feet?

Strike through fail right there. eyeroll

I give up now.

a large glass of wine is usually twice the size of a glass of prosecco.

Can I just say, I’m not actually that incoherently pissed, I just have a new phone and big fat fingers.

Actually this is a good question, so watching with interest.

I also have much less impact from fizzy than flat wine and I've no idea why.

I’m using my own measurements! It’s my wine glass at home.

Sorry I should also add on a same volume basis. Fizzy has much less impact than flat.

Wine is usually a higher alcohol percentage than prosecco. About 12% to 10% is it not

Agree, I'm talking a same volume basis also.

Pisseder is my new favourite word!

Going to get drunk just so I can use it!

Think it's all the air in the bubbles keeping you upright, where as flat doesn't have added air so you fall over

Is there just less actual wine, to make room for the bubbles?!

Bubbles get you pissed faster.

In your case you probably drink wine faster which is why it has this effect.

I have a bottle of prosecco in the fridge for tomorrow night for a night out, and bought a bottle of wine (which I don’t usually drink!) to open tonight for a glass to share with DH over the weekend. Both of them are 12%. I don’t usually drink normal wine as I favour fizz over it for the fact it makes me feel less yucky! It’s so odd and I’ve never been able to work it out!

Hahaha I want to get pisseder 😂

Could be the quality of the wine. My top tip is the better quality wines have bigger indents in the bottle base. So a flat bottomed white wine is low quality. Processco is usually better quality.

Less alcohol in prosecco.

Hmmm. Nope, it's not less alcohol, less volume or differing quality..

But fizzy wine or champagne has a much reduced effect on me than flat wine,,,

I always thought it was more chemicals in white wine - the cheap stuff that got me drunk quicker. Whereas fizz is more natural.

Interesting, I too can drink bubbles all day but would be smashed on flat wine.

Perhaps because you have to sip fizz, for gassy burpy reasons, and can guzzle the sav!

Red wines can have a way higher ABV.

You might be OK on your red of 12, that's lowish for red. Expect upwards of 13.5 and 15+ is not unusual.

Prosecco is usually 11

I wish I could get pisseder on one glass of wine of any type! It may also be about the environment/atmosphere. I think a lot of us have times where we can drink equal amounts but on some days be drunker than others.

I feel worse on red - I put it down to the congeners

How pissed I feel depends on quite a lot of things, some of which make bodily sense (like whether with food) and others which really don’t (like time of day)

I can’t drink bubbles- half a glass and my head is throbbing after being tipsy.Wine on the other hand- couldn’t drink a whole bottle, less tipsy and no sore head. I find white lighter than red, any explanation?

So for the purposes of science someone needs to take two identical glasses/pints/litres (as you choose!) of dry white wine.

Drink one straight and drink the other having processed the same drink through a soda stream (so it’s an identical drink but fizzed up)?