20 Non-Alcoholic Bottles Worth Knowing
Grouped by the moment each one is built for — with dinner, for a toast, to mix at home, or to open and pour.
Most people who try a non-alcoholic bottle once and never buy another were not disappointed by the bottle. They were disappointed by the moment they chose for it — a whiskey alternative poured neat and judged against whiskey, when the same bottle in an Old Fashioned is very good indeed.
So these are grouped by the moment, not by the shelf they sit on. Four occasions, and the bottles that are actually built for each. Where a producer states a level we give it as written: some are 0.0% and some are under 0.5%, and those are different claims we do not merge.
With dinner
Poured into a glass and drunk with food, where a wine is doing the job a wine does. This is the moment dealcoholizing serves best, because the structure that survives removal is the structure food wants.
Pierre Zéro Signature Red Grenache Red Wine
$39.99750ml<0.5%Dealcoholized
A French red from the Grenache grape, dealcoholized to under 0.5%. Ripe cherry and raspberry with soft spice behind them. Opened alongside a meal it reads as wine; opened on its own it reads as thin, which is the whole point of choosing the moment.
For you if a red is going on the table with food, and you would rather it be light and fresh than big and tannic.
Pierre Zero Chardonnay White Wine
$25.00750ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
A 0.0% Chardonnay, lighter and more everyday than the Prestige. Bright and clean enough to sit through a whole meal rather than only the first course.
For you if you want something clean and everyday that can sit through a whole meal without asking for attention.
NON 3 | Toasted Cinnamon & Yuzu Wine
$34.99750ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
NON 3 is toasted cinnamon and yuzu, and it is not imitating wine at all. Savory, with enough acid and tannin to hold its own against a plate — the bottle to reach for when the food is the point and a wine substitute would only invite comparison.
For you if the food is the point and you would rather have something savory with real acidity than a wine substitute.
Three Spirit Blurred Vines Spark Sparkling Ro…
$29.99750ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
Three Spirit built this to be sipped rather than mixed, which is rare. Botanical and closer to an amaro in shape, it works before a meal as much as during one.
For you if you want a bottle you can pour and sip on its own, before a meal or after one.
For a toast
Handed to someone standing up, in a glass with a stem, at the moment everybody looks. Bubbles and acidity do the work alcohol used to, which is why this is the moment non-alcoholic wine is most convincing.
Pierre Zéro Signature Sparkling French Wine
$39.99750ml<0.5%Dealcoholized
French Chardonnay, dealcoholized to under 0.5%. The Signature sparkling is the one for a toast where the bottle is on the table and people can read the label.
For you if the bottle is going on the table and people will read the label. A trace of alcohol is fine.
So Jennie Paris Blanc Dry Sparkling Wine
$40.00750ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
French, and never fermented, so it is a true 0.0% that never contained alcohol at any stage rather than one that had it removed. White peach and pear over a fine persistent mousse. If it matters that the bottle never touched alcohol, this is the one.
For you if it matters that the bottle never contained alcohol at any stage, not only that it does not now.
Lussory Organic Sparkling Brut Spanish Wine
$27.99750ml<0.5%Dealcoholized
Spanish, organic Airén grapes, 0.0%. Very pale and crystalline with fine bubbles — the driest of the sparkling group and the one that reads most like a brut.
For you if you drink your sparkling dry, and want the one closest to a brut.
French Bloom Le Blanc – French Sparkling
$29.99375ml0.0%Dealcoholized
A 375ml half-bottle at 0.0%. Organic French grapes, and the small format means a toast for two does not leave most of a bottle open.
For you if you are pouring for one or two and would rather not leave most of a bottle open.
Prima Pavé Rosé Dolce Demi-Sec – Italian Spar…
$89.99200ml0.0%Dealcoholized
Italian, 0.0%, in 200ml singles. Sweeter than the brut styles above, and the format means every glass is opened fresh and nothing is left going flat.
For you if you are pouring for a crowd and want a bottle per table rather than a glass per person.
Out of stock at the moment.
To mix at home
Bought to be a base, measured into something else. Almost every disappointing bottle was bought for another moment and tried here, or the reverse — these are the ones that are honestly built for it.
GINSIN 12 Botanics Gin
$24.00700ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
Twelve botanicals — coriander, cinnamon, lavender, lemon, hibiscus, orange blossom. Gin survives losing its alcohol better than anything, because botanicals are what gin was made of in the first place.
For you if you are making gin drinks — a G&T, a collins, anything long and botanical.
USKO Original – Vodka
$39.99700ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
Savory: cucumber, celery salt and a capsicum finish. The producer says on the label that it is made to be mixed and not sipped, which is the most useful sentence any of these bottles carries. Built for a Bloody Mary.
For you if you are making a Bloody Mary or a Caesar, and want a bottle that brings savory character of its own.
Lyre’s American Malt – Bourbon Whiskey
$37.50700ml<0.5%Never Alcoholized
Bourbon-style, under 0.5%, with vanilla and toasted grain. Layered enough to carry an Old Fashioned — and it is the bottle that proves the argument, because poured neat it disappoints and stirred with bitters it does not.
For you if you are stirring an Old Fashioned or a Manhattan, where bitters and sugar do half the work.
Almave Blanco Tequila – Made with Blue Agave
$39.99700ml<0.5%Never Alcoholized
A tequila-style spirit made in Mexico from real Blue Agave, under 0.5%. Citrus-forward with a gentle peppery kick, and closer to the original than most because the agave is genuinely there.
For you if you are making margaritas or palomas and want real agave in the glass.
VERSIN Vermouth
$24.991000ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
A vermouth alternative: cloves, cinnamon and ginger with citrus and a gentle herbal bitterness. A liter bottle, which matters for something you use in measures rather than glasses.
For you if you are building negronis and americanos, and use vermouth by the measure rather than the glass.
To open and pour
Nothing to build, nothing to measure. The moment where convenience is the whole requirement, and where a bottle that needs work is the wrong purchase however good it is.
Athletic Brewing Run Wild IPA Beer
$24.99355ml<0.5%Dealcoholized
Six cans, under 0.5%, brewed without alcohol rather than stripped of it. Beer loses least of any category — hops and malt carry the flavor and both survive intact — which makes this the gentlest place to start if none of it is familiar.
For you if you want the easiest possible start, or you are keeping something in the fridge for a weeknight.
Copenhagen Sparkling Tea BLÅ – Jasmine & Whit…
$39.99750ml0%Never Alcoholized
Danish sparkling tea, a true 0.0%, blended from thirteen organic teas. Jasmine and chamomile with honey and guava. It tastes like nothing else here, and it is not trying to.
For you if you want something genuinely different rather than a version of something else.
Curious Elixirs #1 Cocktail
$59.99340ml0%Never Alcoholized
Curious Elixirs #1, stated at 0% rather than 0.0% — producers use those differently and we record what the bottle says. Bittersweet and assertive, closer to a negroni sbagliato than to a soft drink.
For you if you want a proper bittersweet drink out of a can, with nothing added.
Wilfred's Bittersweet Aperitif
$36.00500ml<0.5%Dealcoholized
A British bittersweet aperitif, under 0.5%. Two parts to soda over plenty of ice with an orange slice, and it is done — the least work of anything on this page that still tastes made.
For you if you want a spritz in under a minute — soda, ice, an orange slice, done.
Mingle Mocktails Cranberry Cosmo — Sparkling…
$24.99355ml0.0%Never Alcoholized
Cranberry cosmo in a can, 0.0% and never alcoholized. Chilled, opened, poured — a cosmopolitan without the shaker or the measuring.
For you if you want a familiar cocktail with no equipment at all.
Kin Euphorics Actual Sunshine — Functional Be…
$34.99235ml<0.5%Never Alcoholized
Kin Euphorics, and worth reading the label closely: under 0.5% and never alcoholized. Those two facts are independent, and this is the bottle here that proves it — a trace can exist in something that never fermented.
For you if you are curious about the functional end, and you are comfortable with a trace rather than a true zero.
Every bottle above publishes its stated level on its product page, and where the producer says how it was made, that too. The Basics explains what those two facts mean and why they are not the same thing.
