Prosecco used to be both a geographic denomination as well as the grape used to make the famous sparkling wine of that denomination. However, rather like champagne, producers of Prosecco are fed up with how their DOC name came to mean an Italian sparkling wine. Unlike champagne they have an additional problem - the name of the grape. Since there is no grape called champagne, no one can grow the grape and make it into a sparkling and call it champagne, naming it after the grape. However with there being a grape called prosecco, anyone can make a sparkling wine out of the grape and still legally call it prosecco, as they can claim to be labeling after the grape. The only solution is to change the name of the grape, which is now called Glera.
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