Primitivo
76/100
The short takeRed berries, soft and noticeably sweet, on a simple fruit-forward palate. It is smooth. It is also limited: the fruit arrives, and little depth or complexity follows.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve 12–14°C (producer page).
Who it’s for A soft, sweet red-berry pour. It stays plain. Do not open it for Primitivo depth.
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This pour · documented production
In the glass
- Nose
- Red berries, and they stay red berries. The aroma is fruit-forward and plain. Sweetness is already noticeable. There is no second scent under the fruit. It smells soft, open, and simple.
- Palate
- Soft, smooth, and noticeably sweet. Red berries carry a fruit-forward palate, and they do not become more particular as the sip goes on. The sweetness is clear. The texture stays easy. Depth is limited, and so is complexity: the middle repeats the berry and the softness instead of adding a second flavor or any grip.
- Finish
- The same simple fruit is what remains. Sweetness does not turn. The berries do not dry into something sterner, and no later flavor arrives to complicate the close. It ends soft, sweet, and plain.
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Structure
- Sweetness
- Medium-sweet
How wine-like is it?
Separate from the score. A convincing resemblance is not a higher rating.
A simple sweet red. The berry fruit is recognizable; the depth and complexity are not.
The wine
The glass is soft before it is anything else. Red berries, a smooth texture, sweetness you notice, and then those same things again. Depth does not arrive.
The fruit is straightforward. Red berries lead the smell, and they are the flavor of the sip. Fruit-forward, in the plain sense: one line of berry, sweet enough to register, with a texture that stays smooth. The middle does not add a second flavor. Sweetness sits in that softness. It is part of how easy the wine is to drink, and it is why the glass feels simple. Limited complexity here means the sip repeats itself.
Across a full pour the impression holds still. Softness keeps it easy. The sweetness stays noticeable from the first sip to the last. Red berries stay the fruit. You know the wine immediately, and the rest of the glass confirms it.
What follows the swallow does not revise it. The berries remain. The sweetness remains. The texture remains smooth, without a catch that would make the fruit feel shaped. You taste a sweet red-berry wine, and you keep tasting that, and the glass does not grow a second idea.
Pleasant, and limited. The fruit is clear. The balance is sweetness on a soft, smooth frame, with little depth under it.
76 sits below the median of the 220 dealcoholized wine bottles we've tasted.
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Vacuum evaporation at Associated Beverage Solutions (ABS), Belgium.
Research notes
Grapes are hand-picked in September, destemmed, and fermented at 22–24°C. Alcohol is then removed by what the producer calls vacuum evaporation, at 20°C. The page heads the wine “0% Alcohol” and says to serve it at 12–14°C. Producer tasting copy mentions red berries and a smooth, persistent finish. The front prints 0% and Alcohol Free. Produced by Associated Beverage Solutions S.A., 118 rue de la Croisette, 6180 Courcelles, Belgium, for The Wine People SRL, Trento, Italy. After opening, the label says keep cold (max 7°C) and drink within 3 days. This bottle is stamped lot L25260N, best before 09.2027.
Where to buy
- Nero Oro 0% Primitivo
- Package
750 ml
$11.99 (750 ml) — Total Wine & More via Instacart (observed 2026-09-23)
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- Nero Oro 0% Primitivo · Producer
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Total Wine (Nero Oro Primitivo Non-Alc $11.99); Instacart; Wine-Searcher; vivino.com
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Product facts
- Producer
- The Wine People
- Bottle / can
- 750 ml
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Where sources disagree
Sources disagree on the following points.
- ABV: Public record uses <0.5%, the alcohol statement on the back label of the tasted bottle.
- Country: Country follows the bottle, Product of Belgium. The page’s Leverano place name stays as region. This bottle does not print it.
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- Producer documented2 facts
- Retailer sourced3 facts
Production record
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- Record
- Has open discrepancy
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3 notes
- ABV
- The producer page heads the wine 0% Alcohol.
- Country
- Bottled by Associated Beverage Solutions in Courcelles for The Wine People SRL, Trento.
- Barcode (EAN/GTIN)
- Barcode recorded from packaging or producer listing
Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.
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