I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something

delicious eat it all and you can't have any and today we're talking about

proxy wine that's right so a

couple weeks ago whenever that was. Was it a couple weeks ago? Was it like May 2nd

or something maybe? I think so. Yeah, yeah. Okay a couple weeks ago we did an

episode called non-alcoholic wines and in that episode we discovered that

they're actually two different types of non-alcoholic wine.

There's de-alcoholized wines, which is what we wound up focusing on in that episode.

And the ones we tried, we did not like, for the most part. So today we are going to taste the other kind. They are called

proxy wines and the idea is that whereas the alcoholized wine starts with wine and takes the alcohol out of it

proxy wines are usually a blend of fruit juice spices teas etc that have been made

to either taste like wine or to sort of drink like wine.

Yeah, I mean certainly these bottles that I'm looking at that you bought look like bottles of wine.

They do, they do.

One of them is lightly fizzing. One of them is lightly fizzing. I'm excited.

I'm excited, yeah. So the majority of non-alcoholic wines are de-alcoholized wines.

And I think that if you're looking for something that tastes like wine you're probably

you're going to wind up buying a de-alcoholized wine. Right but what we found I think

is that all of the ones we were like like two of them I actually hated but like all of them

fell into sort of like a wine uncanny valley.

Yeah.

And so now we're going to try this again but with something that is not purporting to

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