NON is a Melbourne-born project that approaches non-alcoholic drinks like a chef rather than a brewer — building flavour through cold steeping, acidity, salt, and tannin rather than by mimicking wine grapes. NON 1 is their founding expression, and it's still the one that turns the most heads. The method is genuinely interesting. Freeze-dried Tasmanian raspberries are steeped for 48 hours in cold water, which concentrates flavour without cooking out the fresh, tart quality. Verjus from Semillon grapes in the Barossa Valley provides acidity that has real structure — not citric sharpness, but something rounder. Murray River salt lifts everything. Chamomile adds tannin and a dry, slightly herbal finish that you would not necessarily expect from a raspberry drink. The result sits in its own category. It tastes more like a considered savoury drink than anything trying to approximate wine, which is precisely the point. At around £20 a bottle it asks you to treat it seriously, and it rewards that. Serve cold in a wine glass, ideally with food — it handles cured meats and creamy cheeses better than most things in this space.