The boyfriend and I drove from vineyard to vineyard one hot August Saturday in our friend's cigarette reeking car. It was 2009, and Long Island's North Shore wineries had jumpstarted as the Hamptons continued to grow, and the internet spread the word. While all of these wineries had beauty and tasting rooms, one of the wineries we pulled into that afternoon seemed organized, clean, and smelled tobacco-free. It also had good wine. It was Wolffer Estates. We left with two bottles of their signature $30 sauvignon blanc, which was no small sum in your twenties.
Wolffer Estates hit the national scene in 2013 with their "Summer in a Bottle" Rose. Now living in North Carolina with the husband, it was warming to see Wolffer Estate bottles on shelves, remembering our stop there years before.
Now, moving with the times, Wolffer Estate is offering a non-alcoholic "Spring in a Bottle" Rose. While not partaking in Dry January myself, I decided to "spring" for the bottle and review. And $20 for non-alcoholic wine is quite a spring!
The wine proved to be a lively pairing with meatball subs. While it had lower acidity than wine with alcohol, it was more than made up for with the perfect bubbles. "Spring" suggests floral notes, but there were none to be found, merely perfectly balanced slight red berry with grass. It elicited the notes of the warm February Carolina day we were experiencing, and allowed our children to taste with us. And at 36 calories a glass, allowed me to treat myself to dessert.
While we had initially thought we would have to open another bottle, the husband and I declared this wine a "buy again," and declared the wine fully satisfying. Wolffer Estate has given us another way to make memories.
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