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PaperclipPerfector  8d ago (text post)   2572 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for February 14, 2025

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My wife is pregnant so I was searching for a non alcoholic red wine. Apparently they are very difficult to make, or at least make in a way that a wine company will attach their name to it. Got a sparkling rose instead, guess we will see how that tastes.

Miguel Torres makes excellent non alcoholic Rosé and Sauvignon Blanc, they’ve been making it for like twenty years

I got this bottle:

https://store.wolffer.com/product/Spring-in-a-Bottle

We both liked it.

That looks delightful. German N.A. bubbly from a quality region like mosel seems like a winning combo.

This was the wine I was referring to earlier.

Congratulations on the pregnancy! I hope things proceed smoothly for the two and soon to be three of you.

You'll probably be better off with non-alcoholic beer.

This is my favourite non-alcoholic beer.

This one is easily the best N.A. beer in the world.

My kids really like sparkling red grape juice for things like New Years' celebrations.

My favorite mocktail is a virgin Moscow Mule - the ginger and acid leave it with enough "bite" even without vodka.

I've only tried a non-alcoholic red wine once, though, and it was lousy, so I can't help directly, sorry.

Congratulations and good luck on the pregnancy!

I am not sure how good they are given the regulations around them. My family did get some bottles of non-alcoholic sparkling wine, not sure if I can suggest that in good faith to someone pregnant, for everyone else, it's fucking fantastic.

I wish you guys luck with the pregnancy!

I recommend a shrub, kombucha on tap, or de-alchoholed mimosa.

Alcohol free wine is uniquely bad. Alcohol free herbal “liquor” is better, alcohol free beer still better.

It’s because the most economical ways of making non alcoholic wine end up cooking off the aromatics, which make up the majority of the flavor of wine.

There’s high fidelity ways of doing it but they are mega capital intensive

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