{"id":278,"date":"2025-09-22T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/?p=278"},"modified":"2025-09-22T04:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:27:15","slug":"costco-prosecco-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/costco-prosecco-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco issues urgent recall of prosecco bottles &#8211; warns they can explode at any time causing serious injury to consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosting a dinner with your friends can be a blast, but Costco shoppers weren&#8217;t thinking about having a bottle explode spontaneously when choosing their <em>Kirkland Signature Prosecco<\/em> (the one with a purple\/lilac label).<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the bottle prone to shatering, no, the warehouse retailer warns that unopened bottles could shatter on their own, posing a real risk of cuts and eye injuries in kitchens, garages, or anywhere people store wine at home. (If a bottle has already exploded for no reason in the middle of the night at your house, congratulations; it&#8217;s a scientifically explainable phenomenon, and not a poltergeist from <em>Paranormal Activity<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<h2>Which exact Costco wine bottle has been recalled?<\/h2>\n<p>If you are not sure if you have bought the bomb-ticking wine batch or not (Costco sells a huge variety of wine and spirits, after all), don&#8217;t worry, we have your back:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Name: <em>Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Item number: 1879870<\/li>\n<li>Selling date: April 25 through August 26, 2025<\/li>\n<li>States involved: Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As if it weren&#8217;t bad enough, having to throw away a good bottle of wine, <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.bfldr.com\/U447IH35\/as\/3q6998t8pfg5hhjpkcpgvbc\/FinalKSProseccoValdoMemberLetter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costco\u2019s letter<\/a> warns that some unopened bottles might shatter without any handling \u2014hence the adamant <em>&#8220;Do not bring it back to the warehouse for a refund, ffs&#8221;<\/em>. Down below there are instructions on how to dispose of the bottles safely.<\/p>\n<p>If your prosecco came as a gift or you are unsure of the date, treat any matching bottle with caution and ask your local warehouse\u2019s Member Services to check your member number or a credit card record. Even if your bottle looks perfect, don\u2019t assume appearance can rule out risk.<\/p>\n<h2>What is prosecco, and how should you store it?<\/h2>\n<p>Prosecco is Italy\u2019s most popular sparkling wine (and the favorite <em>posh<\/em> booze selection for 30-year-old women who still like to party but wanna feel cosmopolitan and Europe-savvy\u2026 ask me how I know <em>wink<\/em>). It is made mostly from the Glera grape.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s made with a variety of grape called <em>Glera<\/em>. Unlike traditional-method Champagne, prosecco usually gets its bubbles from a second fermentation in a sealed tank.<\/p>\n<p>Because freshness is the goal (well, apart from getting drunk, you know), prosecco is best when stored in a cool and dark place. If you have a wine fridge, setting it to 50 to 55\u00b0F is the perfect temperature. For the rest of us mortals who have not deluded ourselves into thinking we are upper-middle class, leaving it in the pantry works too (chill it in the refrigerator a couple of hours before serving).<\/p>\n<p>If you like to sip a glass with friends over the weekend, it&#8217;s better to buy it a couple of days before instead of trying to store it correctly at home \u2014unless you have a wine cellar, that is.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do if you have one of these bottles at home<\/h2>\n<p>Follow Costco\u2019s instructions to the letter:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not open the bottle.<\/li>\n<li>Do not take it back to Costco.<\/li>\n<li>Wrap the bottle in paper towels, slide it into a plastic bag, and discard it in a way that avoids handling broken glass.<\/li>\n<li>Then visit your Costco with the notice or proof of purchase and request a refund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No matter how annoyed you are at having to toss a $7.69 wine bottle, it&#8217;s far, <em>far<\/em> cheaper than a ER trip because it exploded in your hand. We don&#8217;t want to tell you to call a bomb squad\u2026 but wearing gardening gloves and glasses while bagging it up for the trash might be a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosting a dinner with your friends can be a blast, but Costco shoppers weren&#8217;t thinking about having a bottle explode spontaneously when choosing their Kirkland Signature Prosecco (the one with a purple\/lilac label). Not only is the bottle prone to shatering, no, the warehouse retailer warns that unopened bottles could shatter on their own, posing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"hide","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eladelantado.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}