Martinelli and Company was founded in Watsonville, California in 1868. It is still owned and operated by the Martinelli family in the same location. :)
Martinelli's actually say their sparkling apple cider and sparkling apple juice are exactly the same, they just have both because some customers prefer the original label lol
My family always had sparkling grape juice at holiday meals and we called it "fake wine". And honestly still to this day I do that. I much prefer sparkling grape juice over wine. So much better tasting.
I just went and bought some sparkling apple juice for Thanksgiving the other day! Everyone in my family is over 21 but we all agree juice tastes way better than alcohol anyway lol
I was raised on Martinelli sparkling cider / drinks and I can say with full confidence; It did not make me more likely to drink now that I'm older. I am almost 30, I do not drink alcohol, and never will. But gimme a bottle of Martinelli's any day ♥️
Congratulations to your husband and well done for helping him with that journey! We're a recently sober household as well - my partner just reached his 3 year and I'm at 8 months! It'll be my first New Year's sober so you can bet your butt I'll be stocking up on sparkling juices!
That's what we call it 😂 my mother in law once bought my husband, as a kid, a bottle of sparkling wine instead of sparkling cider on accident 🤣🤣 whoops 🤣🤣 my husband, a couple years ago, accidentally bought our 8 year old a boozy Slushee at the gas station instead of a normal one because he didn't realize they even had the boozy ones to begin with, but wondered why the clerk had to get it for him instead of himself getting it 🤣🤣 fun times 🤣
I’m from Santa Cruz...Watsonville, where Martinelli’s is made, is in SC county. I work at Driscoll’s which is nearby the Martinelli’s headquarters. We our very proud of our agricultural area!
Sparkling Apple has always been my favorite during the holidays. Though I have only tried one other, cranberry. Unfiltered apple juice fresh from the grinder is so good! It helps that we have some of the best apples in Washington State. I have to try this brand.
@@Alertse @E D It has nothing to do about knowing who the groups are, it means the researchers and the participants are both ignorant of some aspect of the study, i.e. a clinical trial where neither knows which medication is real or a placebo.
@@missbeaussie It does eventually, but I buy the six packs of the little bottles and use them as planters so I have plenty of spare lids. Plus I accidentally break the jugs from time to time so I always have spares of those as well.
Yup, waiting for all of us EU/EEA/UK people to fill up the comments asking what American 'cider' is 😆 is it just apple juice with the bits left in? Because we have pear ciders too, all ciders here are alocoholic i think?
We still have hard ciders, I think better than what you can get in Europe. Mostly because we have better apples. I should've made the trip up north this year to get some of my favorite brüt apple and pear hard cider with lavender.
@@FalconOfStorms I don't know, England is basically the perfect climate for apples and there's a European cider culture going back literally 2000 years. That's a tough match up, haha. But I have only tried hard cider from my native NJ. The funny thing is, to make Apple cider NOT ferment you have to do extra work (boiling or otherwise de-yeasting). If you just buy unfiltered unpasteurized apple cider in the US and let it sit, it will become "hard" cider. Though not necessarily safely, lol.
Me and my sibling used to play Martinelli’s sparking cider “beer pong” on the holidays. No need for a double blind study, we’re all playing Hefeweizen pong these days 😂
My parents don’t drink alcohol for religious reasons so Martinelli’s was (and continues to be) the drink served at holiday dinners. The original sparkling apple cider is my favorite followed by the cranberry one.
One of my earliest memories was visiting the martinellis farm as a kid on a field trip. On the tour they had hay bails where they let us sit and they pressed apples and gave the kids samples of that juice.
Ive been watching you guys for over 7 years that’s almost half of my life (I’m 15 and 1/2) I just want to say hello to my brothers and sisters who also grew up with GMM
“I think this is just the right amount of grape. I think if it was more grape, it would be offensive almost. 😤” This made me laugh way more than I should’ve. 😂 I agree though, Rhett!
Lol. If you're joking, good one! But, yeah usually around the holidays they go hard on gifticality. They'll stop it on purpose or just make a wheel where all the pieces are gifticality.
Same! I still remember how strong the smell of apples would be at WHS on the days they would press the juice, since its right across the street! lol 831 ❤️🔥🍓
🍎Martinelli’s makes the best apple juice, but it is more costly. My son and I traditionally always toasted in the New Year with a bottle of their sparkling apple. I haven’t tried their other flavors.
I didn't even know that Martinelli was made from apples. I've never tried it. However I do love Welch's sparkling grape juice. I used to give it to my daughter on special occasions when she was young. She always liked it.
Sparkling beverages (like cider or what's like wine or like champagne) are big sellers for the holidays. Nowadays there's the fancy stuff that they put in cans now like Bubly by Pepsi even Walmart has stuff like this.
My kiddo loves their apple juice in the smaller apple shaped containers. I also like using their unfiltered apple juice to make Crock-Pot mulled apple cider. 🍎😋 (Great with some orange label Bullet Bourbon too!)
Martinelli did a blindfolded apple taste test and found their apple to be the best. Unfortunately the technology just wasn’t there for them to monetize it for a RU-vid audience yet. So they had to go into the cider business.
Last year because we didn’t live together and I was driving and we had a 3 year old, me and my boyfriend decided to do a sparkling cider for New Years Eve. I found one that was Strawberry Daiquiri flavor (one of my favorite drinks) and decided to try it. We all tried it, it was good, but tasted nothing like a Daiquiri. Asked the 3-year-old what she thought and she said it was just strawberry pop. Which she didn’t pop often anyway so she was happy.
12 weeks pregnant but haven’t announced yet so i bought the sparkling blush to fill up my glass at thanksgiving, we’ll see if anyone notices. 😂 plan b is to say I’m trying not to drink all my calories and save them for the food 😂
I hold 2 degrees in psychology, and my focus is social psychology: Rhett’s hypothesis could only be tested in a longitudinal study. Better data can be gleaned from European countries; perhaps Canada.
