Fizz Care

What is the ideal serving and storage temperature for Fizz?

What is the ideal serving and storage temperature for Fizz?

Why do bubbles sometimes disappear quickly in the glass?

• When bubbles disappear quickly, most of us would blame the quality of the wine.  In fact, this is one of the least likely explanations.

 

• The most likely explantion is down to the glass.  The bubbles are only allowed to form due to characteristsc of the glass.

 

• The Prosecco may be a Frizzante (lighly sparkling) rather than Spumante (fully sparkling)

 

• Detergent kills bubbles.  Rinse, rinse and rinse again your glasses to remove all traces of soap.

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• Do not use fabric softener on your drying/polishing clothes.   It will kill your bubbles.  The softener on the cloth transfers to your glasses leaving a damaging surface which disperses the bubbles.  Read our blog to see how we found this out!

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• Bubbles are formed from tiny imperfections in the glass. Whether this is a spec of dust or an etch  in the glass. Intentional  imperfections are given to sparking wines glasses for this reason.  It's called a nucleation point.

 

• If a glass was completely clean of imperfections, there would be no bubbles what so ever.

Does Prosecco age?

• Prosecco deteriorates  with age.  Typically, Prosecco lasts about 3 years from the vintage (harvest) date.  After 3 years, the Prosecco starts to lose it's aroma and freshness.

• The Glera grape, which is used to make Prosecco has a simple structure which does not lend itself to ageing.