An Albany, New York company is launching a line of non-alcoholic soda designed to pair with premium cigars.
Abbina Craft Sipping Soda was created by Charlie Albanetti after wanting a more interesting non-alcoholic beverage pairing for cigars than other commercially available sodas. Abbinaโs flavors include drinks featuring notes of leather, fruit, spice, coffee, and chocolate.
โI love exploring flavor, and my go-to beverage pairing has always been soda, but I was left wanting something more exciting,โ Abbina founder and CEO Charlie Albanetti said in a press release. โI created Abbina because I wanted something better for myself and I thought other cigar enthusiasts would really enjoy the experience too.โ
Albanetti began creating the flavor concepts by building drink formulas at a makeshift lab on his dining room table. In December 2022, he started working with a professional flavorist lab to create scalable, safe formulas for commercial production. The first batch is now being produced and bottled.
Abbina Soda is available for pre-order on www.abbinasoda.com in packs of 12-12 fl oz bottles of each of the first four flavors, or a 12-count variety pack with three bottles of each flavor, and will be shipped across the United States from Abbinaโs warehouse once production is completed later this week.
