Roots Divino

Roots Divino is the only wine-based non-alcoholic vermouth in the world. It's Bianco is fresh and sour, with rosemary, thyme, and lemon. The Rosso is bittersweet, with bitter orange, gentian, and wormwood. Both are 0.0% alcohol, and both are made for the aperitivo hour: over ice with tonic, in a spritz, or as the backbone of a Negroni or Martini that gives up nothing.

The method is the reason they work. Roots Divino are made as a real Mediterranean vermouth on the Greek island of Lesvos: macerating wormwood, rosemary, gentian and other native herbs into sweetened wine, after which they remove the alcohol through reverse osmosis. Nothing is imitated, because nothing needs to be.

Vermouth did not begin in Turin, Italy. It began in Greece, as vinum absinthium, a wormwood-infused wine that Hippocrates prescribed as a remedy long before Italy made it famous. Roots, drawing on a family distilling heritage stretching back to 1850, are taking it back.