Here we are, just one month into the new year, and many of us are still Dry January-ing.

There was a time when the only nonalcoholic options were NA beer — and soft drinks, of course. But if you craved the ritual and the taste that alcohol provides, you were limited to beverages that looked sort of like beer, came in beer bottles and often even had Germanic-sounding names, but tasted nothing like beer.

Here in America, we like taste — big taste. And alcohol certainly delivers that. It’s one of the reasons why our wine, our liquor and our beer have more alcohol on average than anywhere else in the world. It’s hard to replace that element — hard but not impossible.

With the overall downturn in drinking on an international level, it becomes evident that drinking “better” is the new normal. What was it James Bond once said?

“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well made,” Ian Fleming wrote in 1953’s “Casino Royale.”

If it was true for Bond, can’t it also be true for non-imbibing secret agents? Aside from the “strong” part, why can’t those drinks still be very large, very cold and very well made?

Well, it can. Luckily for us, many producers are leading the charge in that direction. You can now find nonalcoholic Italian sparkling wine, nonalcoholic IPAs and nonalcoholic amaro to name just a few.

Even Guinness makes a delicious 0.0 version of its legendary stout. In addition, there are a whole bevy of prepackaged nonalcoholic cocktails — negronis, spritzes, “agave” drinks — now available, and many of them are exceptionally fine.

And, doubly luckily for us, local producers are leading the way.

Here are my three current favorites.

H2O Sonoma Soft Seltzer, 0.0% Sparkling Rosé

There was a time when a lot of de-alcoholized wine was not great quality. But H2O’s “wine-infused” sparkling waters (12 cans are $55) have figured out a way to mitigate both the flatness of nonalcoholic still wine and the sweetness of premium grape juices.

“Come quickly, I am tasting stars,” is the quote often attributed to Dom Pérignon, the first time he sipped sparkling wine.

Sonoma’s H2O may have just made that discovery, too, because its new product is a sparkling rosé.

Acidically effervescent, this bright-pink bubbly quite literally tickles the palate. The 0.0% ABV product is mostly mineralized sparkling water with added pinot noir grape juice concentrate and de-alcoholized wine.

It’s that last component that really gives this rosé the palate-cleansing mouthfeel of a really dry sparkling rosé wine — think French — while the grape juice gives it that great strawberry-ish depth of flavor. It’s pink. It’s celebratory. And it’s nonalcoholic. What more could you want, especially with Valentine’s Day just around the corner?

Details >> h2oseltzer.com.

Free Spirits’ Spirit of Milano

Marin’s Milan Martin and his company, Free Spirits, really hit a home run with this nonalcoholic “amaro” ($34). Amaro means “bitter” in Italian, but amaros are classified as alcohol, whereas “flavoring” or “cocktail” bitters are classified as food. Both can be alcoholic.

Bitters are the gray area. Some have alcohol — as much as 90 proof — and some don’t. Often, it’s hard to tell, and you really need to read the fine print. So, Martin skips the naming controversy and calls his product “The Spirit of Milano.”

The Spirit of Milano tastes like amaro — and not nonalcoholic amaro, but real, quality Italian amaro.

Lightly bittersweet, with hints of rhubarb and spice — much like Aperol — it’s delicious on its own as a purely nonalcoholic component, or even in conjunction with actual full-proof alcohol for a lower-proof option. And who doesn’t like a good pun when it comes to names?

Details >> drinkfreespirits.com.

Best Day Brewing’s nonalcoholic beers

Sausalito’s Best Day Brewing produces five nonalcoholic beers in five craft brewing styles (six 12-ounce beers are $14). From lightest to heaviest, they include: Electro-Lime, which is reminiscent of a Mexican lager with lime and salt; a kolsch-style that emulates the lightly hoppy, top-fermented beers of Cologne, flavored with pilsner malt; a full-bodied West Coast IPA; a lighter-bodied Hazy IPA and an enormously full-bodied imperial-style IPA called Galaxy Ripple.

Nonalcoholic beers fit into two categories: less than 0.5% ABV, and less than 0.0% ABV. (Read the small print on the labels to see which category your drink falls into.)

Best Day’s beers fit into the under 0.5% category, but certainly sit well in the craft brewing category as well. They even offer a variety pack.

Details >>Bestdaybrewing.com.

Jeff Burkhart is the author of “Twenty Years Behind Bars: The Spirited Adventures of a Real Bartender, Vol. I and II” and the host of the Barfly Podcast. Follow him at jeffburkhart.net and contact him at jeffbarflyIJ@outlook.com