RvK ZERO 0,0 Sparkling Alkoholfrei

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 The French German broadcaster Arte has recently uploaded on Youtube a short 30 minute documentary called Rettet alkoholfreier Wein die Winzer (Can alcohol-free wine save winemakers?).

As it often happens with most Arte documentaries, I grew directly interested and started watching it immediately.

But this enthusiasm soon started decreasing as comments from other users started popping up and sarcasm as well as, what for me already is, hate speech dominated the comments box. 

This same problem had the family Dahms as they have organized a alcohol-free wine festival in 2024. The organizer, Luca Dahms, has shared his experience with social media and how a wave of hate speech was born criticizing the event.

In a much minor scale I was also caught in some sort of shitstorm yesterday. 

It is not needed to say that this has left a rather bitter taste in me and has affected my viewing experience. What was supposed to be a documentary where a new and innovative facette of the wine world is shown, it has also served to put in evidence that many people who did not seemed to me as wine drinking fans may not be ready for a change in society, just like it unfortunately happens in other domains.

Still, I would like to highlight the Dahm's winery decision of letting a wine be Halal certified or the way a german company is trying to extract some of the taste of the alcohol essence in order to restore some of the wine's original taste back. 

A general conclusion defended by many of the intervenients in the documentary is that the basis wine has to be good in order to have a good de-alcoholised result.

Being so, I would like to highlight one of my current favourite alcohol free wines:


This sparkling Riesling from Reichsgraf von Kesselstatt has preserved most of the  aromatic features of the grape without falling into the artificial sweetener taste that most alcohol free wines have.

And that's what makes it special. Fresh and lively, light citrus and tropical fruits notes and really well introduced CO2 that gives it a very wine feeling. In fact, this may well be a perfect alternative to many events.

Sure is that it is something that I often go back to as it really is a great drink created by the RvK team.

 

15,5/20
Country: Germany   
Region: Mosel
Grapes: Riesling
0,0%
Winemaker: n/a

Link: https://www.kesselstatt.shop/rvk_zero_sparkling

 

 

 

Location: Hamburg, Germany

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