Hi friends. I have come to the conclusion that while I like wine, it doesn’t like me. I need to find a good nonalcoholic wine.
I will drink both white and red but preferably white. Oh and it must not be sweet, I like dry wine.
Suggestions?
Following, as I came to the same conclusion a while back and have yet to find anything I like.
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I haven’t found anything that is analogous to the NA beers. I can enjoy several different NA beers and they taste pretty good. Most of the NA wine I have tried just tastes like juice to me.
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There are a lot of NA beers that are good.
We loved bitter lemon in Europe on a recent visit but it is not available here. We just bought some Fever tree sparkling Sicilian lemonade and blood orange ginger beer to bring to Thanksgiving as a substitute for champagne.
I also have tried to find a substitute for wine and have been unsuccessful. Tost, while quite expensive, just didn’t pass the family taste test trial.
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Lyre’s has a N/A sparkler that is good. Not sweet. Non Alcoholic Sparkling Wine Range
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Thanks, @sabaray . I will try that.
As for beer, I know that there are a lot of good N/A ones, but I am not a beer drinker.
I like wine too and have never had a good non-alcoholic one, sorry to say.
I think finding a good mocktail that is a slow sipper is the way to go. That way you have something to go along with dinner, but not just gulping it down in one sip. I actually made a great mocktail over the summer that was “long.”
It was primarily soda water, a lot of lime juice, simple sugar syrup, fresh mint, a very generous dash of bitters, and about 1/3 cup cranberry juice.
I can’t find the recipe, but I made it in a big pitcher. Chill it, then put in ice. Something like:
4 cups soda
1/2 to 1 cup lime juice
1/4 cup simple syrup (maybe less?)
A big dash of bitters (maybe a tsp?)
1/3 cup cranberry juice, preferably not just straight cranberry, maybe rasp-cran, or pome-cran.
torn up mint leaves, stirred in.
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Lyre makes great sparkling wine. It tastes like prosecco, IMO. Regular NA wines are much trickier; I have not found any that don’t taste like diluted grape juice.
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For those who look for a good NA beer, Stella NA is amazing!
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I tried a few NA wines last year for the same reason and they were just awful, now just drink one very small glass of regular wine when I want it occasionally.
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FYI: for Amazon shoppers, Lyre is on BF special.
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My daughter had this as a non-alcoholic version of sparkling wine for her wedding. I thought it was pretty good, but it is definitely a sparkling wine.
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We were in a wine store last week and they were sampling these - Catina Zaccagnini ‘0.0’ Alcohol-Removed Wines from Abruzzo Italy. We didn’t try them, but they are a very highly regarded wine and we love their Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. I would give this a try if I were looking for non-alcoholic wine.
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