It sounds too good to be true—a high quality wine that never gets you tipsy and never gives you a hangover. Just beginning to enter the Hong Kong market, “Catuma, Sparkling Passion” is a round tasting German Riesling with a difference.
“The reason a person gets a hangover is the veins are restricted. The energy boosting herbs in Cutama open the veins, thus avoiding a hangover” explains market analyst and representative for Catuma, Ermanno Lelli.
Traditionally, energy-boosting herbs have only been added to sports drinks to give athletes a boost. Athletes, however, are not the only ones that can benefit from an energy boost!
Advertised as “the best mix of alcohol and energetic properties” on their Hong Kong facebook page, Catuma includes well-known Brazilian energy-boosting herbs gurana, marapuama and acatuaba as well as Korean Ginseng. It is also sucrose free, which means that the sugars in the wine are more rapidly absorbed into the blood stream.
“Unlike a Vodka Red Bull, Catuma won’t get you too jittery ... it just gives you a gentle energy boost” says Lelli.
Like most wines made in Europe, Catuma is a biodynamic wine. The grapes used in the wine have never been sprayed with pesticides.
When asked what dishes would go well with the wine, Lelli suggested apple pie or a dish with fruit such as sweet and sour pork.
