PRIMARY FLAVOURS

• Citrus
• Stone Fruit
• Aromatic
• Floral

Story

Well, this is something new! The team at Oddbird have one mission: to liberate alcohol from wine - and oh boy, have they delivered. Owner Moa Gürbüzer is a former social worker and worked mainly with alcohol related family issues. Her vision is to question and change the alcohol norms of society by creating world-class wines but liberating them from alcohol.

Alcohol-free wine often struggles in the market. The wines can be boring and uninteresting; this is often down to how they are produced. It is commonplace for these wines to be warmed up, almost to boiling point, where they are then stripped of their alcohol. This, however also strips the wines of all of their flavour and aromas as well, rendering a pretty boring product that needs lots of additives to be interesting. Oddbird are careful to extract their alcohol under a vacuum that never lets the wine go over 25°C, which retains the natural flavour of the fruit. These are the best alcohol-free wines we have ever tried.

One of the world's first 'natural' non-alcoholic wines. Layered with floral and citrus appeal, this is triumphant.

Specs

PAIRING GUIDE

You can’t help but be impressed by this zero-alcohol white wine, which not only provides a seriously flavourful, fresh and hangover-free alternative, but also pairs beautifully with a massive array of tasty dishes. This one matches up especially nicely with Asian sweet and sour dishes, Thai green curries, and anything featuring poached or smoked salmon. Creamy pasta dishes, pork belly, fat and juicy prawns, turkey schnitzel and avocado salads will also work very well indeed.

RECIPE MATCHES

• Spaghetti with Salmon, Broccoli and Tzatziki