Zeno White

About the wine: 

100% organic Viura, aka Macabeo/Macabeu. This grape is famous for playing a supporting role in blends, with its silky texture and bold body, but in the right hands it can make a delicious and complex wine on its own. 

This 100% viura offers nice body and a kaleidescope of fruit notes - citrus, apple, peach, and pineapple, plus a hint of grassiness? Just enough acidity and a gentle floral note on the finish keep things interesting, and a touch of residual sugar makes this a bold yet balanced white.

Organic, estate grown and vinified. 0.5% ABV after de-alcoholisation.

About the brand:

Zeno is the project of 2 long time drinks industry vets. They launched their first de-alcoholised wines in 2022. They make their wines with organically-grown grapes on their single estate in central Spain. 

They brought Jane Masters, Master of Wine on board as Technical Director - she finesses every step of production, from grape and site selection, to vinification, and finally de-alcoholisation and blending. 

Like many de-alcoholised wines, Zeno uses vacuum distillation to remove the alcohol at low temperatures, which allows them to preserve delicate aromatics and flavours. They blend the wines after de-alcoholisation.

Many brands will lean on sugar to replace lost body and flavour - instead, Zeno adjusts their winemaking - in some cases they will halt fermentation with some residual sugar, to allow the natural grape sugars to provide body, which allows for a more multi-dimensional flavour experience.

The grapes are organically grown and all winemaking processes are vegan.