Christmas Drinks

Weight Watchers Fruity Wine

Sweet, fruity and light, yet some found a powdery, squash-like taste. Not a big reduction in calories but quite drinkable.

9.5% Alcohol

64 calories/100ml

Blue Nun Riesling

Dryer and harsher than the Weight Watchers. The team guessed this to be the 'normal' wine though it was just about 'average'.

11.5% Alcohol

74 calories/100ml (estimated)

Bacardi Breezer Orange

A lot of flavour and quite sweet. Perhaps sickly sweet for some.

5% Alcohol

72 calories/100ml (estimated)

Bacardi Breezer Diet Lemon

Less flavour than the orange with more of a rum taste. A powdery aftertaste reminded some tasters of the sports drinks from a previous test: not a good thing. Although, it did have a few fans and switching to this would save a few calories over a night out.

5% Alcohol

35 calories/100ml

1.2g carb/100ml

Michelob

Smelling and tasting more like lager, the testers had no trouble picking this one out as the non-low-calorie version.

5.2% Alcohol

Michelob Ultra

"Weak", "flat", "horrible" and "like yesterday's beer" were a few comments. Although there was a "refreshing" in there too.

5% Alcohol

32 calories/100ml

0.91g carb/100ml

Riverview

No problems in identifying the real rosé. Quite, sharp and nothing extraordinary but well liked by the team.

12.5% Alcohol

71 calories/100ml (estimated)

Eisberg

A sweet, bubbly "lucozade like" drink. Didn't taste enough like a wine to fool our panel but, for a very low alcohol fruity fizz, our tip is the Eisberg.

<0.05% Alcohol

Becks

Easily guessed to be the 'real' beer, a good flavour and liked all round.

5% Alcohol

41 calories/100ml (estimated)

Marston's Resolution Low Carb Beer

A nice surprise in the stocking here. Pleasant smell, mild refreshing taste and very "downable".

4.7% Alcohol

31 calories/100ml (estimated)

0.6g carb/100ml (estimated)

Becks Alcohol-Free

Weak, watery, no smell and little flavour.

One star; but no wise men following it.

<0.05% Alcohol

20 calories/100ml (estimated)