At TLC we’re firm believers that a bit of fizz makes the party. It doesn’t have to be alcoholic of course. But there’s something about the pop of a prosecco cork that brings the occasion and just says ‘it’s time to celebrate’. The most obvious and enjoyable of ways to use prosecco at your party is of course to drink it. But it’s a versatile drink, and you can incorporate a wider prosecco theme too. Personalised miniature bottles of fizz as place markers at your table. Prosecco cocktails blended table side. A tower of vintage champagne goblets as a centre piece. They all add to the experience. To mark National Prosecco Day we’ve collated ideas around ways to use prosecco at your party, whether its a business gathering or stylish personal celebration. Read on…..
FOREVER BLOWING BUBBLES
Why not make your party really go pop with a sparkling bubble theme. Fill the room with opaque or iridescent helium filled balloons that rise to the ceiling like the fizz in a bottle. Trailing ribbons add to the drama and make your room feel elegantly effervescent. Scale it down by adding miniature floating personalised balloons to the place settings or tied around napkins, then create an arching balloon installation over the table. Serve up caviar, the most blissful of bubbles, and add a cake that looks like it’s bursting with bubbles to finish.
COOK UP A STORM WITH PROSECCO
Left over prosecco, as if there’s ever such a thing! But let’s just say there’s a bottle or two ‘extra’ after your next party. Did you know you can create an entire three course meal with ‘left over’ prosecco, a great theme to tie your dinner party together and ensure a cohesive dining experience.
Seafood and white wine are a fabulous pairing, so it follows that prosecco would make a similarly good partnership. Try this baked scallop in prosecco recipe to start, which brings in cheese, butter and garlic to tease the taste-buds.
Lemon, cream, prawns, pasta, prosecco. What more could you want than this mouth-watering tagliatelle recipe from Salt and Wind?
No fan of fish? Did you know you can upgrade a roast chicken dinner with the simple addition of your favourite prosecco? It adds real depth of flavour to gravy and the result is a super juicy bird.
Try prosecco poached pears to finish and wash it all down with, of course, prosecco. If guests are still hungry then individually prepared prosecco jellies, prosecco macaroons or prosecco truffles should satisfy their sweet tooth.
https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/roast-prosecco-chicken
https://saltandwind.com/recipes/560-tagliatelle-prosecco-lemon-cream-sauce-pasta-recipe
https://bakedin.co.uk/blogs/news/5-leftover-prosecco-hacks
https://extraordinarychaos.com/2019/01/baked-scallops-in-prosecco-sauce.html
FRAGRANCE YOUR ROOM WITH PROSECCO
Most wines have a good ‘nose’, but the unique combination of citrus, fruitiness and sweetness also makes prosecco a pleasing and luxurious home fragrance. Opt for a diffuser or room spray for instant freshness, or during the winter months create atmosphere indoors or out with scented candles in your favourite prosecco fragrance.
PROSECCO COCKTAILS
We love to create a prosecco bar at a party so that guests can mix and match their favourite cocktails. Passion fruit, mango, raspberry, orange juice. Just label up your pitchers and let them create their own flavour combinations. This idea is perfect for a bridal party or baby shower where you can add in some non-alcoholic prosecco for mum to be. Create gorgeous signs showing how to make different cocktails and decorate with fresh fruit, bunches of fresh herbs and flowers.
For larger parties, weddings and birthday bashes, why not make the drink of choice a prosecco cocktail. Don’t just go for the obvious either. Check out these recipes on Olive which range from pear drop Bellini’s to blood orange sgroppinos and the classic negroni sbagliato. Want to go that little bit extra? Hire a mixologist to create a signature prosecco cocktail that runs in theme with the party.
https://www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/cocktails-and-drinks/best-ever-8-prosecco-cocktail-recipes-2/
BEST PROSECCO BARS
If you’re taking the party out, then why not try one of the UK’s best prosecco bars as your venue. Take Manchester for instance, not just home to TLC’s headquarters, it also boasts some of the region’s best prosecco and champagne bars. Our top picks are Manchester House. It has 24 different types of fizz on offer and Bavarian beer hall Albert’s Schloss which has a unique “Push for Prosecco” button on its booth style tables.
Find a full list here thanks to the Manchester Evening News.
And for a wider choice of eclectic bars in Manchester, click here
London has its own dedicated prosecco bar situated just near Tower Bridge – https://www.worldsbestbars.com/prosecco-house-londons-first-prosecco-only-bar/. And when you can travel again why not head to one of the many Bottega Prosecco bars which has venues at destinations all over the world https://www.bottegaspa.com/en/bottega-prosecco-bar-in-the-world/
CELEBRITY PROSECCO BRANDS
Brad Pitt to Angelina Jolie. It seems that everyone who is anyone has a side hustle selling wine. If you’re looking for a celeb-indorsed prosecco, then look no further than fashionista sisters Poppy, Cara and Chloe Delevingne who have created a vegan prosecco brand called Della Vite. It certainly looks the part as you’d imagine in sleek black bottles with gold lettering.
https://www.thehandbook.com/drink-like-an-a-lister-11-alcohol-brands-owned-by-celebrities/
NO HANGOVER PROSECCO?
Sounds too good to be true doesn’t it. But billed as the world’s finest prosecco, Pale Fox is ultralow in sulphites – the ‘nasties’ that can lead to you feeling a little delicate after a night on the fizz. It’s vegan and produced sustainably too so you can drink it to your hearts content with your halo firmly in place.