Our best selling Prosecco - ever - is back!
01.19.2022
Raphael dal Bo "Raffaello" Prosecco
Release Price: $15.00
Lowest Online Price in the US: $12.98 (net)
winestore. Price: $9.99 (net)
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Lowest Online Price in the US!
*Curbside Pickup Always Available!*
There is a chance (😂) that you've read somewhere that supply chains everywhere have been disrupted due to COVID. The wine industry is not immune to this situation. Case in point, this prosecco. Our container was set to arrive November 18th. Then December 10th. Then December 20th. Then Jan 4th. Then January 8th........
You get the idea.
I am happy to report that Raffaello Prosecco, easily the best $10 sparkling wine we have ever tasted, has finally come back in stock!
The minute we tasted this "extra dry" Prosecco from Raphael Dal Bo we knew we had found something special. Once we saw the price we knew we had basically gone all Indiana Jones and found the Holy Grail of Prosecco. Tastes great in a mimosa? You know it. Tastes great on its own? Of course. Budget friendly? Bingo.
What's up with Prosecco?
After decades as an only vaguely popular international wine, in 2009 Prosecco was redefined; its lesser regions becoming DOCs and its more specialized areas, Conegliano-Valdobbiadene and Colli Asolani, gaining DOCG status. There was plenty of good news in that: no more would lesser areas be available for bottling as Prosecco, and Italy could go to war against other countries (like Australia) labeling their white wines as Prosecco. For Australian producers (and others), Prosecco was a grape, not a place. Concomitant with these changes, Italy had re-titled the grape as Glera, thus mooting any possibility of other countries insisting that they were just naming their wines Prosecco as a varietal designation. Maybe it helped, but Prosecco blew up, internationally speaking.
This labeling scheme was good lawyering stuff, for sure. But the larger issue is that Prosecco is now rather complicated, if it is more protected and (theoretically at least), more controlled and likely to be of higher quality. Prosecco producers also began labeling their wines by sugar levels: Raffaello’s Extra Dry (made of 100% Glera) has about the same amount of sugar in it as most Champagnes, so it’s not sweet. But Prosecco of old was generally dry and the higher end DOCG stuff remains so. Confused yet? You should be. This is all wine law in full frontal evolution and it’s anybody’s guess if this makes Prosecco sexier or more popular than it already is. That said, it's still the first choice for most folks.
So, literally, our ship has finally come in! Let's get to it!
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