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. Abbina’s flavors include drinks featuring notes of leather, fruit, spice, coffee, and chocolate.
“I love exploring flavor, and my go-to beverage pairing has always been soda, but I was left wanting something more exciting,” Abbina founder and CEO Charlie Albanetti said in a press release. “I created Abbina because I wanted something better for myself and I thought other cigar enthusiasts would really enjoy the experience too.”
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 Abbina’s warehouse once production is completed later this week.
