Melange Rouge

Dealcoholized wine starts life as wine and has the alcohol taken back out afterward. Faux never makes wine at all. Rouge is built forward from verjus, the pressed juice of unripe wine grapes, blended with Cabernet Sauvignon juice, blackberry, plum, black currant and aronia berry, then made in small batches, lightly filtered and bottled. Nothing ferments and nothing gets stripped, so it arrives at 0.0 percent by a completely different road. The savoury depth comes from safflower tea, licorice root, eucalyptus, violet and cocoa nib tea, while acacia gum gives it enough weight to stay present next to a plate. A 5 ounce pour is 35 calories with 6 grams of sugar and none of it added. Serve it lightly chilled or cellar cool rather than warm. This is the one for roasted and umami-heavy food, so pizza, burgers, mushrooms, char and hearty pasta.