Phony Negroni
86/100
The short takeBitter first and bitter last, with gentian holding the middle and pine and wormwood around it. Dry enough to drink like a Negroni rather than a soda, and the closest nonalcoholic take on the drink in the cellar.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve Build like a real Negroni — pour over a large ice cube, a curl of orange peel.
Who it’s for The 6 PM hour when nothing else on the nonalcoholic shelf gets close to an Italian aperitivo.
In the glass
- Nose
- Piney and bitter, gentian and wormwood, layered with a citrusy high note that's unmistakably Negroni-adjacent without borrowing.
- Palate
- Bitter and botanical, the gentian carrying the middle, the citrus and herbal notes framing it; off-dry, no sugar overlay.
- Finish
- Long and bitter — closer to a Cocchi Americano rinse than to a juice mocktail.
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Structure
- Sweetness
- Off-dry
- Bitterness
- Modest bitterness
The drink
Bitterness leads. Gentian carries the middle; pine and wormwood stack behind it, with a citrusy high note that stays Negroni-adjacent without borrowing sweetness. Off-dry — no sugar overlay — so the botanicals read sharp rather than cordial. The nose is piney and bitter before the sip even starts; that is the through-line, not a fruit mocktail arc.
Build it like a real Negroni over a large ice cube with a curl of orange peel; the canned format needs less help than expected. Modest bitterness on the profile understates how the gentian holds the sip from middle to finish.
Piney and bitter from the first sniff, herbal through the middle, and still bitter when the glass empties. Citrus frames the botanicals without sweetening them. Soft fruit is the wrong ask for this can. Dry bitter botanicals are the point — gentian in the middle, wormwood and pine around it, long bitter close. Thirty botanicals show as layered bitterness, not as a grocery list of flavors. Bitter first, bitter last; the citrus is only a high note.
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Build like a real Negroni — pour over a large ice cube, a curl of orange peel. The canned format needs less help than expected.
The bottle
Trade record, where to buy, and product facts.
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Where to buy
- Package
200 ml
$39.99 (6-pack of 200 ml bottles) — St. Agrestis, US
- Availability
US launch via the brand's DTC site stagrestis.com and select NA-focused retailers; rollout ongoing; Metro Wine & Spirits. A 100 ml bottle is sold where the 200 ml size is restricted.
- In Washington, DC
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Named at Metro Wine & Spirits. Sourced availability note — not live inventory.
Prices and availability are independently observed and may change. Retailer listings do not imply endorsement. A different package is labeled as a different format. Reader-service exceptions and commercial links are identified above; neither affects scores, rankings, classification, verification, or editorial coverage.
Product facts
- Producer
- St. Agrestis (Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY)
- Origin
- United States
- Base beverage
- 30 organic, non-GMO botanicals designed to replicate negroni aromatics without any underlying spirit.
- Bottle / can
- 200 ml
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- Calories: The current producer page text declares 44 calories per 100 ml. The nutrition label linked on that same page declares 40 calories per 100 ml. Both were checked on 2026-10-03; no resolved calorie value or reformulation date is invented.
- Ingredients: The current producer-published 200 ml label includes quinine and natural glycolipids. The cited Good Eggs 100 ml listing instead includes sodium benzoate and does not list those two ingredients. These are different package listings; no date or cause for the formulation difference is established.
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- Producer documented7 facts
- Bottle verified3 facts
- Retailer sourced1 fact
- Community database1 fact
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Producer stagrestis.com
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- Volume
- Producer product line for Phony Negroni: 200ml / 6.76oz.
- Country
- Agrestis non-alcoholic cocktails are developed and produced at the Greenpoint, Brooklyn distillery.
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- Sugar
- Sensory dryness is a tasting judgment, not a sugar-content claim.
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- Price
- Observation date backfilled from price research ledger (observed 2026-09-20).
Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.
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