Wonderoak

Dark spirits are the hardest thing to replicate without alcohol, because so much of what a rum gives you is warmth. Wonderoak goes at the problem through aroma instead, using distilled botanicals and natural extracts built around tonka bean, nutmeg and oak, with fenugreek, lime and curacao filling in the edges. The result is warm and rounded rather than hot, at about 6 calories per 100ml, vegan and gluten-free. Cola and ginger beer are the recommended partners and both work. Siegfried also suggests something more interesting. Swap part of the rum in a cocktail for Wonderoak and you pull the alcohol down without losing the flavour, which is a more useful idea than most zero-proof marketing manages. Unopened it keeps 18 months. Once opened, store it cool and drink it reasonably soon.