Served ice cold, it is refreshing, and looks just as good in a champagne flute as its alcoholic cousin. Full disclosure: I have never been able to get behind non-alcoholic wine. It’s always far too sweet for me, as are pretty much all fizzy soft drinks. This is one of the easiest mixed drinks to make but is still delicious. Perfect for hosting a Eurovision watch party! Ingredients Måneskin were the iconic winner of Eurovision 2021 with the song Zitti e buoni. After shooting to fame there were false allegations that they had been taking cocaine. The band responded by laughingly saying that frontman Damiano David didn’t even touch alcohol and would be in bed at 10 pm with a cup of chamomile whenever possible!

The original group broke up in the 80s after their hit “Making Your Mind Up,” but some members get together for reunion specials around the United Kingdom occasionally. Putting my prejudice for anything sweet aside for a moment though, I could appreciate that the wine has a rich, fruity aroma – you certainly get a whiff of real grape – and a good level of fizz.They are fermented following the wine making process, but the process is stopped prior to the point of the wine becoming alcoholic. They are then carbonated. Therefore, the product has a sweet profile which would be more like a prosecco-style sparkling wine.’ As product developer Emma says, it is sweet – far too sweet for my palate (I thought it was sweeter than most proseccos I have tried) – but fans of a sweeter wine or sweeter drinks in general (Appletiser, Schloer are both equally as sweet) will like its fruitiness and body.

When I’m not drinking alcohol I’d rather have a low or no sugar tonic with ice and lime, which is just reminiscent enough of G&T to keep me going at an event where I can’t drink, or a sparkling water (I know, wild right?). As well as tasting light and refreshing, the products are intended to look and taste like wine, without the ABV that comes with wine,’ she said. The grapes used to make non-alcoholic wine are just as important to the end result as for alcoholic wine, says Emma. ‘As with wine, the grape is fundamental to the taste of the products – after all, they are made from 100% grapes,’ she says.A common complaint about alcohol-free wines is that they are often over-sweet – but Emma says this wasn’t something they tried to combat. Rather, they wanted to work with the natural sweetness of the fruits to create a sweet, ‘prosecco-style’ wine.