Costco Issues Recall for Prosecco Due to Bottle Shattering

Costco issued a recall notice for Kirkland Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene between April 25, 2025 and August 26, 2025 due to potential shattering of the bottles, even when those bottles are not being handled or in use.

Prosecco is not bottle fermented like Champagne.  Rather, it uses he tank method, aka the Charmat method where the fine receives the secondary fermentation in a pressurized tank keeping the gas in in the wine.  The wine is then filtered and bottled under pressure (Wine Enthusiast).  So this is either an over-pressurized wine or there are issues with the bottles (not properly rated for the pressure).  Another possibility is there is a dosage added to the bottle at the filling step and this may have been off.    We're going to bet on a bottle issue.

Product was distributed in IA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, NE, OH, SD, and WI.