Zerozzante – 3-Pack Taster – alcohol-free

Three bottles for an alcohol-free tasting

The Zerozzante 3-bottle tasting set contains three 750 ml bottles: Cuvée No.1 made from white grapes, Cuvée No.3 made from red wild apples, and Cuvée No.4 with rhubarb. None of them contain dealcoholized sparkling wine.

The Zerozzante 3-bottle tasting set is a small collection of non-alcoholic fruit-based sparkling wines from the Raumland sparkling wine estate in Flörsheim-Dalsheim, totaling 2.25 liters across three different varieties. Each bottle represents a different raw ingredient and level of sweetness, allowing you to compare drinks in one evening that would otherwise only sit next to each other on a shelf.

From light grapes to tart rhubarb

The three varieties form a progression ranging from juicy and fruity to fresh and tart, finishing with a distinctly dry profile.

The light grape sparkling wine, made from Bacchus grapes, smells of fresh grapes, grapefruit, and light stone fruit, and is the sweetest of the bunch. The sparkling apple wine made from red-fleshed wild apples offers notes of lemon zest and cranberry, tasting noticeably sharper due to the high malic acid content. The fruit sparkling wine with rhubarb finishes with a rosé hue and is reminiscent of fresh raspberries.

What all three share is a fine, long-lasting effervescence that the family deliberately incorporated into the sparkling wines. A fruit juice with coarse carbonation reveals itself in the glass after only a few minutes; these three last much longer.

A tasting for the kitchen table

Three bottles side-by-side turn a simple toast into a small tasting session that you don't even have to leave home for.

If you pour all three on the same evening, start with the light grape sparkling wine, move on to the apple, and finish with the rhubarb, as the tartness increases from glass to glass. You can also pair them with a menu: the grape with fish, the apple with poultry, and the rhubarb as an aperitif.

All three should be served well-chilled at 6 to 8 degrees, preferably in a wide-bowled glass rather than a narrow flute. Once opened, the bottles will keep in the refrigerator for about three days, which makes the set last all weekend.

As a gift, the package is better than a single bottle anyway, because the recipient can discover for themselves which variety they prefer. Three bottles in a box are also light enough to carry across the street on foot.

From the sparkling wine estate, not the juice factory

Volker Raumland originally developed these fruit sparkling wines for his two daughters so that there would be something better than just a juice spritzer on the family table. This idea grew into its own line, which today bears the name Zerozzante.

All three juices are cold-pressed and never heated, even though that would extend their shelf life. Instead, only pristine, hand-picked fruit goes into the press; the heavily chilled juice is then cold-sterile bottled and carbonated. Each ingredient list also includes 30 milligrams of vitamin C per liter.

Volker founded his sparkling wine estate in 1984, farms 14 hectares organically, and in 2020 became the first winery dedicated exclusively to sparkling wine to be admitted to the VDP. Quite impressive. You can find more sparkling non-alcoholic drinks with us, as well as the rest of the assortment from Flörsheim-Dalsheim.