10 Jun, 2017 @ 09:10
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Brits drink one third of the world’s Prosecco, new study reveals

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prosecco-1-640x427ONE third of the world’s Prosecco is drank by Brits, a study has revealed.


The Consortium for the Protection of Prosecco reported that a whopping 410.9 million bottles of bubbly are produced each year, with 112.7 million gulped down by Brits.

It comes after a 44.8% boost in prosecco production between 2014 and 2016.

It’s bad news for Spanish produced Cava, which continues to fall further behind it’s Italian arch rival.

But now one of the country’s largest Cava producers is hitting back by launching its own Prosecco.


Freixenet, a 150-year-old family-owned company and Spain’s  biggest Cava exporter, is introducing an Italian fizz to reach a new audience.

Between one million and two million bottles of the Prosecco will be produced for Freixenet this year.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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