Anybody here heard of 00 wine? I recently got a request from someone who wanted to know if anybody in NM made 00 wine or knew any shops the carried 00 wine.
I assumed she meant 0% alcohol & made some suggestions. But…nope… wrongo/dongo.
00 wine is a subcategory of natural wines in which nothing is added/nothing is taken away. I could not find any natural wine that identifies on the label that theirs is a 00 wine. I guess you have to query the natural winemaker if it’s a 00 wine. It sounds to me like another way to scam wine drinkers. But, then, if you’re already buying natural wines, then you’re already buying into a bit of a scam.
Ystrday I queried several wine people. They had no clue what a 00 wine was or if they had any on the shelves.
So now you know the rest of the story.
00 wines… the next big thing.
Tom
I’ve heard that Jack Sporer of Magnolia Wine Services makes some 00 wines under his label Fres.Co.
IMHO, 00 is like any other process detail (e.g. carbonic/whole bunch/destem, fermentation vessel, etc), which we may like or not but isn’t inherently scam-y
It’s just a term to describe a sub-category of natural wines that have no additives (including no SO2) and no filtration or fining. The term has been around for years but you probably won’t find it on labels (more likely to encounter at wine bars, though…)
Yup I’ve most commonly heard it in natural wine bars, rarely in a production setting. It’s really a marketing term, like “natural wine”, intended to convey purity. I can’t recall the wine bar or restaurant I was at earlier this year that specifically marked the 00 wines on its list, but I found it very helpful because I try my best to avoid 00 wines as a consumer due to their unacceptably high incidence of mouse or overwhelming Brett.
In the world of non-alcoholic wines it is also used quite regularly to describe wines with less than 0.05% alcohol. So I can understand your confusion!
I’ve not heard it used to describe “double dry” ferments as Todd has, but I can see it.
It’s a pretty common term in the natural wine world. Nothing added/nothing removed. Not all are great but there are some pretty wonderful ones out there. Stagiaire, Ruth Lewandowski and Florez are 3 that seem to have wider distribution than most and might be easier to track down. They all work with some great fruit sources.
