Piquette is fizzy, affordable, and low ABV. It's about to be everywhere
For all the winemakers playing with piquette, the response has proven overwhelming. Piquette is often sold at a much lower price point, and a lower-in-alcohol option is always a welcomed alternative. Even avid beer drinkers might find it a comfortable replacement once in a while. “Trend-wise, I think piquette has a place since there’s never really been ‘session wine’ before,” says de Leon. “It’s something you can drink plenty of and maintain a low buzz.
“I have drank a number of Italian red wines lately that I am completely wild about,” she says, “I find myself looking for glou glou from countries other than France nowadays.” Glou glou wines are wines that invite glugging — invoking the chugging sound made while drinking them or pouring one out — and they tend to be both lighter in alcohol, tannins, and body. Still, they have pronounced acidity and minerality.
The grape making up 85 percent of Brand’s red is portugieser, a red found primarily in the Rheinhessen and Pfalz and wine regions of Lower Austria and Slovenia, but largely obscure stateside: another reason people are starting to seek it out, says Caruke.
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