Wine, best tasting low-alcohol

Plain Truth · Guru

Wine, best tasting low-alcohol

Clarky 1 · Senior Member

Plain Truth wrote:
I am trying to find a good tasting Low alcohol white Sauvignon Blanc.
The best I have found so far is "The peoples session Sth Australia" it is 8.5 %
Anyone have a favorite I can try.

Hi PT,

Is that a typo mate? 8.5% is not a bad hit in anyones session.

I am not into the low alc wine but I have been having a sip of the Peroni 0% beer which is not too bad if icy cold.

I still think the beer is something you have to get used to. I cant come at the 4X and the Northern, they are horrid in my opinion.

86GTS · Guru

We've had this one a few times, it's pretty good.

Screenshot 2022-07-08 at 04-55-21 Lindemans Wines Early Harvest Semillon Sauvignon Blanc Lindeman's.png

Best beer is this one, it tastes like REAL beer.

Screenshot 2022-07-08 at 04-56-30 Mornington Peninsula Brewery Free Non-Alc Pale Ale Cans 375mL.png

Plain Truth · Guru

Clarky 1 wrote:
Plain Truth wrote:
I am trying to find a good tasting Low alcohol white Sauvignon Blanc.
The best I have found so far is "The peoples session Sth Australia" it is 8.5 %
Anyone have a favorite I can try.
Hi PT,
Is that a typo mate? 8.5% is not a bad hit in anyones session.
I am not into the low alc wine but I have been having a sip of the Peroni 0% beer which is not too bad if icy cold.
I still think the beer is something you have to get used to. I cant come at the 4X and the Northern, they are horrid in my opinion.

Hi Clarky,no typo most of the full strength whites are about 13.5%. It is hard to get a low alco beer that tastes good to.

Plain Truth · Guru

Thanks 86 GTS,I will give that a try,I looked it up and I see they have a Crisp Dry White to,both 8.5%

I will check out the beer as well,hard to get a full flavored low or zero alcohol that is any good.

86GTS · Guru

Plain Truth wrote:
Thanks 86 GTS,I will give that a try,I looked it up and I see they have a Crisp Dry White to,both 8.5%
I will check out the beer as well,hard to get a full flavored low or zero alcohol that is any good.

CHEERS PT, we've tried the dry white & the dry red as well. The dry white is our favorite.

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Minchinbury now make a zero alcohol Savignon Blanc, Chardonay, Shiraz, Rose, Cuve Brut. I bought a bottle of the Shiraz the other week to try , drank half a glass and tipped the rest of the bottle down the sink. You could try their zero whites but if they are as good as the red you may be better opting for the Lindemans Early Harvest its not too bad. Having said that wine is a matter of personal taste so some people might actually like the Zero Shiraz.

BB

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Monday 11th of July 2022 10:32:04 PM

86GTS · Guru

The Belmont Bear wrote:
Minchinbury now make a zero alcohol Savignon Blanc, Chardonay, Shiraz, Rose, Cuve Brut. I bought a bottle of the Shiraz the other week to try , drank half a glass and tipped the rest of the bottle down the sink. You could try their zero whites but if they are as good as the red you may be better opting for the Lindemans Early Harvest its not too bad. Having said that wine is a matter of personal taste so some people might actually like the Zero Shiraz.

BB

-- Edited by The Belmont Bear on Monday 11th of July 2022 10:32:04 PM

NON alcohol wines unfortunately don't taste like wine at all, we've tried a few brands & ended up tipping them all in the sink.

Beer is a different story, there are a few excellent ones that taste like ''the real thing''.

Not really helpful for us because we're wine drinkers that enjoy the occasional beer on a hot day.

Wanda · Guru

A lot of the early harvest wines are quite sweet in our opinon but all our taste buds are different.
They were talking to a wine maker on the telly a week or so ago about low or zero alcohol wines, they are working on them but it is much more difficult with wine than beer, so we may have to wait a bit I think.
Cheers
Ian

Craig1 · Guru

For years, breweries have complained about All The Taxes making alcohol so expensive, but when there is no excise on zero alcohol drinks, they are still expensive because of the "new difficulty" in producing these products. Zero beer is over $40 per carton, today 30 cans of T E D is $48 and 4.4%, but Great Northern at 3.5% is also $48, because it is popular. So profit before any morality.

Need to go back to home brew, but I think home wine making is a fair bit more complex.

Wanda · Guru

Craig1 wrote:
For years, breweries have complained about All The Taxes making alcohol so expensive, but when there is no excise on zero alcohol drinks, they are still expensive because of the "new difficulty" in producing these products. Zero beer is over $40 per carton, today 30 cans of T E D is $48 and 4.4%, but Great Northern at 3.5% is also $48, because it is popular. So profit before any morality.

Need to go back to home brew, but I think home wine making is a fair bit more complex.

Actually home wine making is not that complex, buy the book " wine making for dummies" and your half way there.

After 3 vintages, half a ton of grapes, you end up with about 28 doozen bottles of wine. All very very drinkable!

Ian

Ivan 01 · Guru

As with most things 21st century wine making has been simplified.
I am not saying that it is a better way of making wine but there are kits available to get a result.
Anyone might have to do a little research as to how to make low or no alcohol wine but here are a few links from a supplier and a guy in Victoria who gave the kits a go to see how they turn out.

https://youtu.be/HYSdjO0zQzM

https://youtu.be/ZhPfGOq6xd0

and from the guy who made them.

https://youtu.be/ezUyAmaFivo

https://youtu.be/J0tBjFZ3iPI

I wonder if anyone has tried this winemaking while on the road in the van or boat.

86GTS · Guru

I made my own home brew beer once.
It seemed OK & my brother came over to enjoy a few bottles with me.
After he went home I started farting like never before.
This kept going for hours.
I rang my brother & before I could ask him if he was doing the same he said to me ''are you farting all the time 'cause I'm almost blasting myself to the Moon?''
I think it may have had a second fermentation in our stomachs?

Ivan 01 · Guru

86GTS wrote:
I made my own home brew beer once.
It seemed OK & my brother came over to enjoy a few bottles with me.
After he went home I started farting like never before.
This kept going for hours.
I rang my brother & before I could ask him if he was doing the same he said to me ''are you farting all the time 'cause I'm almost blasting myself to the Moon?''
I think it may have had a second fermentation in our stomachs?

You may have been lucky you didnt have *bottle bombs*.

Usually if it has been bottled while still actively fermenting the bottles can explode if the pressure gets high enough,

Of course it may have been just that you and your brother drank the settled yeast and that could easily regenerate fermentation in you gut.

On the bright side you would have had a good dose of vitamin B.

Just asking, did you have to sleep on the lounge or in the spare room. biggrin biggrin biggrin

86GTS · Guru

Ivan 01 wrote:
86GTS wrote:
I made my own home brew beer once.
It seemed OK & my brother came over to enjoy a few bottles with me.
After he went home I started farting like never before.
This kept going for hours.
I rang my brother & before I could ask him if he was doing the same he said to me ''are you farting all the time 'cause I'm almost blasting myself to the Moon?''
I think it may have had a second fermentation in our stomachs?
You may have been lucky you didnt have *bottle bombs*.
Usually if it has been bottled while still actively fermenting the bottles can explode if the pressure gets high enough,
Of course it may have been just that you and your brother drank the settled yeast and that could easily regenerate fermentation in you gut.
On the bright side you would have had a good dose of vitamin B.
Just asking, did you have to sleep on the lounge or in the spare room.

I'm a lucky guy, my wife has no sense of smell. smile

Ivan 01 · Guru

As well as very good earmuffs apparently. biggrin

Cupie · Guru

My recommendation doesn't fit the low alcohol bill but it is certainly a good drink and the price is right, about $7 at Dan Murphys.

Silver Moki. (pronounced Mow-Key) NZ Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc. 12.5% which seems standard for whites.

I used to have a continual challenge to find a white that SWMBO liked, usually paying around $20 at Dans. Then my Daughter suggested this one at <$10 at her local bottleo. The sales lady recommended it. I now keep half a dozen in the wine rack ready to pull out to please at any occasion. Always popular.

BTW .. Just a little bit off topic but I had heard of 'plastic' bottles being offered to Aussie wine makers. Lighter, easier to pack & more robust .. great for caravanners. Found a reasonable white in one of these squashed rectangular bottles at First Choice recently. Price was a bit high at circa $17 from memory (In my estimation it was $10 discount wine at best .. but that's a matter of taste I suppose). About as tall as a normal bottle but in an appx 8x4 cm hard recyclable plastic container. 750mL?

When traveling I use DeBortoli's Cabernet Merlo casks to feed my habit & a few bottles of Red Knot Shiraz for drinking pleasure. Of course a couple of Silver Moki for SWMBO.

-- Edited by Cupie on Sunday 17th of July 2022 01:33:26 PM

Plain Truth · Guru

When traveling we use cask wine and cans for beer,much lighter and you can squash the empties down and take them out when free camping when there are no bins.

86GTS · Guru

Have to be careful buying cask wine up the bush.
We bought a red cask at the Murrayville pub, got out in the Big Desert & it was battery acid.
Looked at the use by date & it had expired a year before.
I guess they're all beer drinkers up that way.

Wanda · Guru

Yes Cupie the Silver Moki is a good drop, we drink that all the time and as you said at $7 is good value.
Ian

Cupie · Guru

86GTS wrote:
Have to be careful buying cask wine up the bush.
We bought a red cask at the Murrayville pub, got out in the Big Desert & it was battery acid.
Looked at the use by date & it had expired a year before.
I guess they're all beer drinkers up that way.

If you are desperate then just add a dash of Port (of course everybody has Port on hand for cold nights).