32° Riesling Alcohol-Free

32° Degrees – Riesling Apple Herbs – the non-alcoholic food companion

Manufaktur Jörg Geiger's 32° Degrees Riesling Apple Herbs is a non-alcoholic food companion made from dealcoholized Riesling wine refined with apple juice and herbs.

The combination of dealcoholized Riesling with apple, grape, and pear juice creates a dominant white-scented bouquet. Using this base, along with peach and quince juice refined with a herbal extract, blossoms, and spices, Jörg Geiger has crafted a drink that is reminiscent of a fruity white wine.

The 32 Degrees Riesling, Apple, Herbs has the scent of light grapes, local pome fruit such as apple, pear, and quince, as well as white blossoms. On the palate, it is delicately fruity, elegant, refreshing, and herbaceous. Thus, the non-alcoholic 32 Degrees Riesling, Apple, Herbs is a great food companion for fine salads, cream cheese, shellfish, crustaceans, and light fish dishes, and is a dry alternative to white wine without alcohol. Recommended serving temperature: 7-9 degrees.

32° Riesling non-alcoholic – excellent

The "32° – Riesling – Apple – Herbs," which prevailed against 100 competitors, was awarded the "Excellent" predicate and 5 out of 5 possible points at the Gault & Millau tasting.

“A beautiful, crystal-clear pear fruit, then lemon and orange. Lots of fresh chamomile, a delicate and perfectly balanced sweetness. Incredibly inviting, flattering, and juicy. Makes you immediately want a second glass,” the jury described it. Isn't that great news?!

Non-alcoholic food companion – Jörg Geiger's "Degree Walk"

GRAD°WANDERUNG (Degree Walk) is the name of the new non-alcoholic line from Manufaktur Jörg Geiger, which offers four dry drinks made from dealcoholized wine refined with herbs, blossoms, and spices. Through refinement with juices and herbal extracts, a significantly more complex and diverse drink is created than a purely dealcoholized beverage—a wine without alcohol—could ever be.

After all, Manufaktur Jörg Geiger possesses 20 years of experience in the non-alcoholic sector, has had its own dealcoholization plant since 2021, and works exclusively with natural raw materials and products. For instance, the still food companions are neither artificially sweetened nor deacidified.

First, the Riesling wine is gently dealcoholized. Gentle means removing the alcohol with minimal temperature increase but maximum time. How low the temperature can be depends on the alcohol content of the wine used. The Riesling is dealcoholized at 32°C, the Rosé at 33°C, the Sauvignon Blanc at 35°C, and the Grenache at 36°C. The temperature therefore served as the inspiration for the naming of this new non-alcoholic line.

Why is the GRAD°WANDERUNG not a "real" non-alcoholic wine?

Despite all efforts, Jörg Geiger believes that pure dealcoholized wine does not live up to high-quality standards and the associated expectations. Although natural wine aromas are recaptured using aroma recovery, the part bound to the alcohol is inevitably lost, leading to a sensory change. For him, non-alcoholic wine remained a compromise—and not just in terms of alcohol. This is why inventor and affineur Jörg Geiger sees dealcoholized wine merely as a welcome base to create new non-alcoholic drinks with less sweetness and a new variety of fermentation aromas. With the wealth of experience from over 20 years of "rethinking non-alcoholic," based on the use of around 200 dry spices, 70 freshly harvested herbs, 20 blossoms, and his own hydrolats, he succeeds in creating still, dry, and non-alcoholic food companions. The alcohol content is generally 0.3% and always remains below the legal definition of "non-alcoholic" of <0.5% vol. That is why Manufaktur Geiger uses the international label "Alcohol removed." Discover a completely new world of flavor that inspires with the 32° Riesling, Apple, Herbs non-alcoholic food companion.

Organic control number DE-ÖKO-006 – EU Agriculture

Dealcoholized aromatized wine-based beverage, non-alcoholic (< 0.5% vol)