Enjoying an alcohol free Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvingnon. The best

[applegrove]

non alcoholized wine I've tasted so far.

What are you imbibing tonight?

[cilla4progress]

1. Tonight was a beer and wine night.

I alternate.

[applegrove]

2. Noooooooooo!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Alcohol free beer is not worth bothering with.

I suspect that alcohol free wine would be the same. I mean, honestly, go for a fruit juice if you don't want alcohol. I'm not even remotely interested in trying alcohol free wine. Thank you very much.

[hlthe2b]

10. Yes. Grape juice still gives the benefits of red wine if you aren't going to take in the alcohol.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. We Disagree On That

I find both Heineken & Bitburger zero beers refreshing & satisfying.
I like the taste of beer, (I enjoy bitters in food, too), but I don't care for the buzz.
I rarely buy anything else.
I barely drink wine (maybe with spaghetti) but I do buy it for cooking.
Maybe alcohol free is a good option for that, as it would be nearly impossible to inadequately reduce it. Nothing worse than using wine or hard liquor in food & not getting all the alcohol out.

[dawg day]

4. Mine was wine from a box. The box is pink.

LOL.

So is non-alcohol wine any good? I'd be willing to give it a try.

[applegrove]

5. I love this. There are many kinds out there. This is the best. I also love

grape juice so I don't mind most de alcoholized wines. But Woodbrige Cabernet Sauvingnon no alcohol is delicious. There is a yummy aftertaste. It makes me feel like I am drinking the real thing.

[CTyankee]

9. F.R.E. makes a very nice alcohol free Merlot, I drink it with dinner.

I'd like to try that Woodbridge Cabernet Sauvingnon. Maybe my wine store could order it for me.

[applegrove]

14. What is F.R.E.? I used to love merlot.

[Backseat Driver]

6. Practicing drinking cha from an empty cup...

Something I read or saw in a movie once upon a time - Shogun, maybe?

Next, bedtime!

[applegrove]

7. Mmm Chai. I worked in an Indian restaurant and the owner had a pot of chai bubbling on the stove

every night. Yum. I made it once from scratch for christmas. It was so expensive because of all the spices. Delicious. We all liked it. And it was even good cold.

You must try and put the real thing in your cup some day. LOL!

[Backseat Driver]

26. I make a suntea jar full of organic green tea w/lemon and/or

flavored herb tea like hibiscus or lavender, ginger, one time even basil, every week. I saved glass bottles with screw tops from liquid commercial offerings; wash carefully as with baby bottles each time, LOL, and refill through the spigot on the tea jar and refrigerate each week for daily refreshment at dinner. Mornings though afternoon break, I'm all in with hot coffee!

[applegrove]

27. Thats a good idea. Sounds yummy.

[eShirl]

8. "Juice."

[Skittles]

11. non-alcholized wine

isn't that....grape juice?

[CTyankee]

12. Glad you asked. Here is the story:

Different wines are cultivated (and has been for a very long time) from grapes, right? Well, a grape is not just a grape. It comes from somewhere, different soil, different climate and weather changes, and over the years those grapes are cultivated and grown to produce the taste of the wine itself.

Here in the U.S. we put nitrites in wine so that same bottle of wine you loved in different countries in Europe (or South America) tastes "different." You don''t get the same wine you got in the countries where they are cultivated and grown and you drank when you were over there and it was all so great.

The F.R.E. Merlot w/o alcohol tastes like the regular Merlot (at least to me). That company's Cabernet Sauvignon does not, at least to me.

[applegrove]

13. No. Grape juice and de alcoholized wine do not taste exactly the same.

This Cab Sauvingnon was definitely closer to real cab sauv than grape juice.

[Skittles]

17. see, all wine tastes like bad grape juice to me

I cannot stand the stuff.

[applegrove]

18. You sir are blasphenous!!!

[Skittles]

19. ME NO SIR

THAT'S MADAM!

seriously though, not sure what it is but I absolutely detest wine....but do love other liquor

[applegrove]

23. I stand corrected Madam.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Not At All

The sugars are still consumed in the process. So, the wine & grape juice differ radically in sucrose & fructose content.
Also, the flavor components (aldehydes & esters) are the by-product of the fermentation process & incidental oxidation. Those components are not present in grape juice.
The nonalcoholic wines are made like any other wine, but are treated in a special reverse osmosis process that selectively removes ethanol while leaving the vast majority of the other low molecular weight organics that make wine taste like wine.
This would be nothing like grape juice.

[Ocelot II]

22. Non-alcoholic wines lack the little bite that real wines have.

They taste very bland to me. No like.

[Goodheart]

20. ????

Non alcoholized wine? Grape juice?

[Goodheart]

21. I'm having a very spicy michelada

[LeftInTX]

24. Ick!

[Tanuki]

25. Diet Pepsi

🙂