Premium Prosecco – an oxymoron?

I have been a Prosecco sceptic. A decade of rapid sales growth, especially in the number-one market, the UK, has flooded many markets around the world with lightweight, often slightly sweet – but above all, cheap – bubbles from this vast north-east Italian zone. Most of them are from the broad, fertile plains centred on Treviso. Richard’s 2017 description of one of our lowest-scoring wines, ‘Really bland. Such a shame that there is so much of this...