To ask what wine drinkers switch to when pregnant?

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I am pregnant with a very much wanted baby and over the moon about it.

It feels like a stupid thing to be thinking about, but a large glass of crisp cool white wine was one of the joys of Friday for me. If possible, I’d love to have some sort of substitute.

So, if anyone else is or has been in the same boat, would you please share your non-alcoholic beverages of choice? Nothing sweet, fruity or fizzy, please. Thank you!

I drank water. Then discovered the joys of tomato juice with lemon juice, tabasco, ice and a celery stick. Drank and ate nothing else 6-12 weeks. And soy. Now a go to drink when driving/taking a break.

DC is now a tomato cocktail addict.

Good luck.

Seedlip non-alcoholic gin is lovely.

Aldi or m&s nosecco is very good. I actually did a bottomless brunch on nosecco when pregnant and polished a bottle off

Soda water and fresh lime is my go to when pregnant or not drinking for lent, sober October, dry January or generally trying to convince myself I'm not an alcoholic 😃 It's free in pubs and not full of unnecessary calories.

Just recently discovered dash water, those are lovely.

Nothing came close for me! I drank mainly non alcoholic craft beer when pregnant.

I will say though if you get Nosecco or similar, add a dash of tonic water, takes the sweetness away and gives it a little bite

Personally I found Tesco's own non alcoholic white and rose nice, but the red was awful.

I used to have fruit flavoured fizzy waters...but I know you said no fizz!

The 0% koppabergs are actually surprisingly nice

When I was pregnant I had a non alcoholic ginger beer cocktail in a bar and it tasted so amazing and like it had actually alcohol in I checked 3 times at the bar that it was actually alcohol free! I found it good as it was strong and spicy and the sugar gives you a bit of a kick!

I have tried lots of non alcoholic wines and found them all vile tbh. However, there are lots of good non alcoholic gins.

Or if you are going fir beer, I think the alcohol free peroni is my favourite.

Water. All the substitutes were really disappointing so I just saved my money!

And occasionally, I'd have half a small glass of red wine.

I’m teetotal, have been for a few years, and the #1 question my drinking friends ask me when trying to cut back is ‘can you recommend a good non alcoholic wine?’ Sadly my answer is no! I’ve never found one worth drinking and I don’t bother with any of them. Non-alcoholic fizz is ok when you need to pop a cork to celebrate something, everything else is bleurgh though.

I really second the recommendation for non-alcoholic bitters though! I haven’t tried the one recommended upthread (but I will
now), but I can recommend San Pelligrino Sanbitter which you can get from Ocado.

And you really really don’t have to worry about the alcohol content of non-alcoholic beer. There are dull labelling reasons why a lot of them have to be labelled 0.5% but most of them actually contain far less than that. And your body basically processes the alcohol faster than you can drink it. As someone else said, there’s about the same amount of alcohol in orange juice!

Wait wait I need to know more about this non-alcoholic snowball experiment. Did it work?! I miss snowballs at Christmas!

That's good to know. I bought sainsburys non alcoholic Prosecco and just noticed its 0.05% so didn't know if I could drink it pregnant?

I put water in the fridge so crisp and cool and then roses lime juice and the cool water and ice cubes....tbh though didn't really want wine. Think I also had alot of sloyers (that grown up fizzy drink...sorry can't spell it... elderflower etc)

Update, in case anyone’s interested!

I tried a non alcoholic beer - Big Drop Uptime Craft Lager. It tasted very beery and I didn’t hate it.

I tried a Gordon’s 0% alcohol with some Fevertree. It’s rather lovely.

In the US they are big on non-alcoholic eggnog, so I am planning to purchase some from Amazon, to mix with lemonade for a Christmas snowball. Haven’t tried it yet though, and now wondering if custard would be just as good…

Ginger cordial with tonic is lovely in a big gin glass with lots of ice. The spice in ginger gives it that kick like gin would.

@FirewomanSam It worked, it hit the spot and filled the void of a Snowball. It got me thinking of using sprite instead of lime juice (as it's already lemon and lime flavoured) and lemonade or trying cream soda instead of the lemonade but I used what was at hand 😂

Just had my second baby and really enjoyed this:

www.bolledrinks.com

Really refreshing but no weird after taste. Have not like any other non-alcoholic 'wines'.

Also enjoyed using my soda stream with a variety of cordials and fresh fruit to pretend I was drinking cocktails!

Good luck with everything xxx

No alcohol leffe is nice. So is citra ipa by brew drop co. 0%. And belvoir ginger cordial with tonic water is lovely and spicy and bitter (but is fizzy). Also like hot water with ginger & lemon slices and honey

McGuigans zero is the nicest AF wine I've found, it's not overally sweet and has that slight dry quality that stops it tasting like fruit juice.