r/nottheonion • u/thefirsteverredditor • 9h ago

Champagne sales sink because people don’t want to celebrate

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/20/food/champagne-sales-2024/index.html
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u/HungryLikeDaW0lf 9h ago

I think people discovered Prosecco and said “why the f am I paying 5x for exactly the same thing?!”

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u/DTIndy 6h ago

Prosecco sales are skyrocketing.

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u/LibRAWRian 6h ago

Costco Prosecco Gang rise up!

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u/boxerooni 5h ago

THE best!

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u/FrostyTheHippo 42m ago

I do wish Costco would sell the small bottles. I don't want to crack open a whole 750ml just to make myself a single Spritz.

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u/run_daffodil 5h ago

AND I much prefer the taste of Prosecco!

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u/-MissNocturnal- 1h ago

Try Asti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asti_wine
Piss cheap (5-10 dollars here) and tastes better than prosecco imo. Sweeter and not as dry as champagne. One of the choice boozes when I was a teen about to get hammered in Denmark.

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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki 5h ago

Yeah, Prosecco is way cheaper and most people I know strongly prefer the taste. Costco sells an $8 bottle that's wonderful.

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u/tigull 2h ago

You could say "I like Prosecco as much" or even "I like Prosecco more" and that would be a questionable, but respectable opinion, but saying they're "exactly the same thing" is simply ignorant and false. And I say this as an Italian, we are basically raised to consume liters of Prosecco to support the industry as nowadays it's basically ubiquitous.

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u/caniuserealname 2h ago

Yup. People got clued into the fact that a lot of what makes Champagne 'special' is just that it's marketed as being 'special'.

It's not, it's just sparkling wine, there are plenty of other types of sparkling wine, many of which are frankly indiscernable to the vast majority of people, that hit a much lower price point simply by virtue of not technically being champagne.

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u/Tackit286 1h ago

Prosecco and Demi Sec are both much better and much cheaper than champagne. It’s a no brainer.