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Prosecco is an Italian sparkling white wine, named after a village of the same name in the province of Trieste. and being made chiefly from the grape Glera.
It is a DOC or DOCG wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions of North-West Italy.
Bubble and Squeak Prosecco is a fantastic example of one such wine, and has achieved great popularity in the UK restaurant scene, and from 2020, also becoming a best seller in many specialist fine wine shops.
From the best of our tracking skills, we believe that Bubble & Squeak was first seen in the restaurant chain, Millar and Carter, who are probably the UK's best loved 'Steak House' chain. I've personally also bought it from the bar chain "All-Bar-One", which, not surprisingly, is owned by the parent company of Millar and Carter.
In the past, you many have experienced going to a restaurant, ordering a bottle of wine, and loving it so much you copied its name down and then tried to buy it either online or at a fine wine store. Quite often you simply can't find it, and there is a simple reason for that.
Many restaurants, if they are big enough to do so, ask their wine supplier to provide a 'private label' for their house wines.
Private labels are simply a mechanism whereby the wine maker will put a different label on the same, or very similar, wine that they already sell.
This allows restaurants to sell wines at a margin their market sector requires, without you being able to see what it would cost in a shop. When you search for the wine, it simply doesn't exist under that name!
Bubble & Squeak Prosecco is just such a private label wine.
During Covid-19, public places, including restaurants, were forced by the government to shut their doors.
Putting yourself in the position of the wine distributor who is sitting on thousands of bottles of a private labelled Prosecco for a restaurant chain who no longer wants the drink, you can understand why they decided to sell it on to businesses who remained open and who could still sell it.
And that's how we, and several other wine merchants, ended up listing it.
The simple answer is NO.
However, after a little digging, we believe (and it's not definite, but...) that Bubble and Squeak was made by the Italian wine maker 'Botter' and sold in the UK by Enotria and Co, a large UK wine importer and distributor.
This same wine importer sells a Prosecco, also by Botter, and also under a private label, for sale in shops, called Quadri Prosecco. And this we can sell to you!.
Both these Prosecco's make the claim to be extra dry, and when we tasted them some years ago, side by side, just for curiosity, we couldn't identify any major differences between them.
Botter Quadri Prosecco: Quadri is a perfectly dry Prosecco with tiny classy bubbles and a beautiful very pale honey colour. It tastes of apples, pears and bananas and has a wonderfully dry aftertaste...see more.
Fiabesco Prosecco: Fiabesco is an extra dry Prosecco from the Veneto region of Italy. Crisp, dry and aromatic (possibly a tiny bit drier than Quadri)...see more.
Bella Modella Prosecco: The first sip of this extra dry Prosecco from Bella Modella reveals a vibrant mousse full of crisp and zesty flavour, with hints of green apple and citrus fruits dancing on the palate (possibly a tiny bit less dry than Quadri)...see more.
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