![]() ![]() I was also taken by the sparkling Shiraz (A$10.50, about £5.78) from Edenvale – it was the kind of juicy, crowd-pleasing fizzy red you’d drink chilled on a hot day. But Giesen Riesling (from $15.99) from New Zealand scored highly. “Alcohol is such a big component of wine – it’s really tough to remove it and still end up with a balanced and tasty drink,” says Parkinson. Non-alc wine remains the Holy Grail – good examples are still scarce. I didn’t get to taste everything by any means, but this is what I took away. So WAFA organisers chose to abide by the most commonly recognised definition of “ alcohol-free”, which pertains to any product at or under 0.5 per cent abv. UK rules around no-and-low labelling are confusing (they are currently set to be reviewed). Myth White Coconut Rum Alternative, £19.95 for 500ml Last month, the non-alc lager brand Lucky Saint (£42.50 for 24 x 330ml) opened a pub in Marylebone to cater for the one in three UK pub visits now apparently alcohol-free. New York has half a dozen teetotal liquor stores. Club Soda recently opened its first non-alc bottle shop in Covent Garden. A host of retailers now cater for the sober-curious. By 2026, according to IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, this figure will have grown by more than a third, driven mainly by non-alc. In 2022, no-and-low sales in 10 key markets totalled more than $11bn (with non-alcoholic products accounting for 70 per cent of that). ![]() ![]() And temperance these days is big business. One in three UK pub visits are now apparently alcohol-freeįourteen per cent of Brits are now teetotal, according to Drinkaware (and 19 per cent of 18-24-year-olds). ![]()
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