We have some big news for Prosecco fans.
While you may well have sipped on a lovely sparkling Rosé before, we can guarantee you've never had pink Prosecco. That's because the strict rules on Prosecco production have insisted it must be white, until now.
Finally, pink Prosecco has the go-ahead to be produced.
It's been officially announced that the Prosecco DOC Consortium - the main producer of the Italian tipple - has been given approval to produce Prosecco DOC Rosé. This means it won't be long till we're blissfully sipping on pretty pink Prosecco, wondering why they didn't allow it sooner.
Industry magazine The Drinks Business has reported the new regulations state rosé Prosecco must be made with a Glera base and blended with 10% - 15% Pinot Nero, with Brut Nature and Extra Dry being the only two permitted styles.
The wines are allowed to go on sale at the earliest on 1 January following the harvest, and labels must be vintage dated, and minimum of 85% of the fruit must have come from the stated vintage. That means, if all goes to plan, we can expect the new Prosecco Rosé to arrive on shelves in January 2021.
One producer, Bosco Viticultori, is looking to produce 1 million bottles of rosé Prosecco from the 2019 vintage, so we could possibly get it even sooner.
Now that's some good news.
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Elena Chabo is Cosmopolitan UK's former beauty writer, working on everything from buzzy celeb news and trending beauty, to sincere first-person reviews and engaging video content for social media. She also creates meatier features and expert-led how-to guides, for print and online. Her passion for Black beauty, textured hair, and the ways beauty interacts with culture, society, identity and relationships, quickly took over her writing career and led her into beauty journalism. Following an MA in Magazine Journalism in 2017, she cut her teeth across various roles at Stylist Magazine, before taking on a Digital Writer role at Good Housekeeping. It was here that beauty took centre stage and she launched and ran the site's first stand-alone beauty section. Remaining at Hearst, she joined the Cosmo beauty team in 2022. Find her on LinkedIn.
