Giesen 0% is an alcohol-removed wine that everyone can enjoy, no matter the occasion.
This alcohol-removed Pinot Gris features delicate floral notes with white flowers, lychee, and red apple on the nose. The palate offers traditional Pinot Gris characters of apple and pear with just a touch of muscat grape. Light, delicious, and balanced between acidity and sweetness.
We’re proud to bring you the second wine in our sell-out alcohol-removed wine range – a crisp, refreshing New Zealand Pinot Gris with the alcohol gently removed.
But is it wine?
We want our non-alcoholic options to give you everything you’d expect from a premium New Zealand wine. So we go through the entire winemaking process, before we gently remove the alcohol. Here’s how we do it…
Using innovative spinning cone technology popular in perfume-making, we separate the fragrance and alcohol from the body of the wine. We leave the alcohol behind, carefully collect up that delicate aroma you know and love from New Zealand Pinot Gris, and add it back into the body of the wine. Just a touch of premium grape juice is the final ingredient – to lend a little extra body and just a touch of sweetness to the resulting blend. This advanced form of distillation allows us to handle the wine gently, maintaining the integrity of our distinctive flavour palate and texture throughout the process.
DID YOU KNOW?
The guidelines for what counts as “wine” relate to how the product is made, rather than whether there is any alcohol content! So because we ferment our grapes first, yes – Giesen 0% is still classed as a wine. That’s how we get such a varietally expressive end product!
There is no wine anywhere in the world that tastes like the wine of Marlborough. Balance, purity and intense flavour set around impressive aroma, distinctive fruit and appealing balanced acidity is unrivalled.
Giesen Wines own 13 vineyards, of which 11% are certified organic with BioGro New Zealand. They have been strategically acquired throughout the highly sought after Wairau Valley and maintain strong long-term relationships with some of the Valley’s best growers. This gives us a range of grape growing conditions which ensures we consistently have the finest grapes from the region each vintage.
Giesen wines have been peeling away the layers and exploring the purity of organic flavour. Three years in the making, the Giesen Brothers have produced their first organic alternative to the traditional Marlborough sauvignon blanc. The palate has delicious fruit weight and zesty flavours and gives a taste of what nature intended, one of which nature has grown.
