Zerozecco

The bubbles cream beautifully into the glass when the cork is popped, and the first thing you notice is a strong floral bouquet, like a good Riesling.  It’s already selling its wares as you raise the glass for the first sip and discover a beautifully balanced opening acidity, mellowing into warm notes of citrus and apricot and withy a long lingering finish.It’s selling tiself short with its label description of a ‘carbonated flacouried drink based on de-alcoholised wine’; this is so much more than that, a beautifully complex and well modulated approximation of a sparkline wine. De-alcoholised wine and grape must combine to create this drink, which comes in at a very reasonable price.  Serve it up for a clear-heasded brunch.