![]() In fact, I’d rather have a foaming beaker of saccharine-enriched tap water, flavoured with a syrup of boiled sweets selected from a Woolworths pick’n’mix counter circa 1975 - because, more often than not, that is what prosecco tastes like. So would I care for a lovely glass of sparkling prosecco? No, I would certainly not. What they really want is the budget flavour of industrially produced, indiscriminate sugary glug, filtered through a sherbet-scented pop sock. Do they prefer peach or apricot top notes, a long, crisp finish, a creamy head or a hit of sunny Mediterranean hillside in the aftertaste? Third, in the weekend stampede we learned what kind of prosecco British women really enjoy. He argued that Italy could not impose trade restrictions because it would be loath to ‘sell less prosecco’. Last year we knocked back 40 million litres of the stuff, prompting Boris Johnson to invoke the beverage in his Brexit negotiations. Nevertheless, sales of prosecco have risen by 72 per cent since 2012, making the UK the fastest-growing market for Italian sparkling wines. Imagine a few toppled tombstones in a sparse and sooty graveyard, and you get the terrible picture. This has led to a condition dentists have identified as a ‘prosecco smile’. Prosecco is particularly popular with women, with noted over-enthusiastic consumption from the kind of mothers who rightly chide their children about cans of pop, without realising that their own fizzy drink of choice has an even higher sugar content. Second, the British are in the absolute grip of a roaring prosecco obsession, which shows no sign of diminishing despite dire warnings from dentists about the tooth-rotting, enamel-eroding properties of the acidic, sugary drink. First, only the foolhardy would come between a thirsty girl and her glass of discount bubbles. For the great Bank Holiday Prosecco outrage has taught us three important things. Spotting the three quid bottles of fizz, one local wine connoisseur noted her approval on Facebook: ‘Might taste like battery acid, but at least it isn’t Lambrini.’ Lineker is claiming he was not alluding to the Nazis when he accused the Government's 'stop the boats' policy of using 'language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s' 25/05/23
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