Is Non-Alcoholic Wine Safe While Pregnant? What You Can Drink, and What the Labels Say

Health authorities say no amount of alcohol is known to be safe in pregnancy, and that includes red wine and champagne. If you want something that tastes like wine, choose a bottle labeled 0.0%, and ask your doctor or midwife first.

The short version: what you can drink

• Yes: Wine or drinks labeled 0.0% or “alcohol-free”: no detectable alcohol. Red, white, rosé and sparkling all come at 0.0%.
• Check the label: “Non-alcoholic”, “dealcoholized” or “zero proof” alone: these can contain up to 0.5% alcohol.
• No: Ordinary wine of any color, including red wine and champagne.

And ask your doctor or midwife first: some advise avoiding wine-style drinks altogether.

Our picks, all 0.0%

• Sparkling: So Jennie Paris Blanc Dry, a dry French sparkling, never fermented, so it never held alcohol.
• Red: Lussory Merlot, from Spain, dealcoholized to 0.0%.
• White: Le Petit Béret Virgin Sauvignon Blanc, from France, never fermented.
• No wine at all: Mingle Blood Orange Elderflower Mimosa, a 0.0% sparkling mocktail in a can.

So Jennie Paris Blanc Dry Non-Alcoholic Sparkling Wine 750ml0.0% · 4.5 g sugar per 100 mL$40.00Add to cart

Lussory Merlot Non-Alcoholic Red Wine (Spain) 750ml0.0% · 3.8 g sugar per 100 mL$24.99Add to cart

Le Petit Beret Virgin Sauvignon Blanc Non-Alcoholic White Wine 750ml0.0% · 2.6 g sugar per 100 mL$25.00Add to cart

Mingle Mocktails Blood Orange Elderflower Mimosa — Sparkling Non-Alcoholic Cocktail (6 Pack, 12oz Each)0.0%$24.99Add to cart

More on our pregnancy-friendly shelf, where every drink states 0.0% on its label. The rest of this guide explains why, and what to check.

What the guidance says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts it plainly:

• Amount: “There is no known safe amount of alcohol use during pregnancy.”
• Timing: “There is no safe time during pregnancy to drink alcohol.”
• Type: “All types of alcohol can be harmful, including red or white wine, beer, and liquor.”

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists gives the same advice. Neither says anything special about non-alcoholic wine: the question is simply whether a drink contains alcohol, and how sure you can be.

Is red wine good for pregnancy?

No. Red wine is often described as the “healthy” wine because it contains resveratrol and other polyphenols from grape skins, and that reputation has spilled into pregnancy. But the CDC names red wine specifically: like all alcohol, it can harm a developing baby. No health authority recommends red wine in pregnancy for any benefit.

What about resveratrol on its own? The pregnancy research is limited and not reassuring. In a 2014 study in The FASEB Journal, pregnant macaques given high-dose resveratrol supplements showed some benefits to their own metabolism, but their fetuses showed unexpected changes in how the pancreas developed. The researchers advised pregnant women not to take resveratrol supplements. That was a supplement dose, far above what any glass of wine contains, but it is a reason not to treat red wine, or red-wine extracts, as good for pregnancy.

How strong the evidence is for each claim. Our guide to non-alcoholic wine and health covers the adult research.

If you miss red wine, a 0.0% red gives you the ritual and the flavor without the alcohol. Our shelf has a handful, from Spain and Italy: Lussory Merlot, Lussory Tempranillo, Elivo Cardio Zero Red and Prima Pavé Fiamma. Our guide to non-alcoholic red wine compares more, but check the label: many are under 0.5%, not 0.0%.

Can you drink champagne while pregnant?

Not real champagne, which is typically around 12% alcohol. A 0.0% sparkling is the swap that still looks like a celebration in the glass, and it is the easiest style to find at 0.0%: So Jennie Paris Blanc Dry and Le Petit Béret Blanc de Blancs are never alcoholized; French Bloom Extra Brut is dealcoholized all the way to 0.0%, with no sugar. For a shower or a toast, our baby shower drinks guide has a menu and quantities, and the best non-alcoholic sparkling wines compares the rest.

Reading the label: the words that matter

In the US, the words on a non-alcoholic wine label are defined by FDA labeling policy, and they don’t all mean the same thing:

• “Alcohol-free” or 0.0%: No detectable alcohol. This is the label to look for in pregnancy.
• “Non-alcoholic”: Less than 0.5% alcohol by volume. A trace is allowed.
• “Dealcoholized” or “alcohol-removed”: Made as wine, then the alcohol taken out, to less than 0.5%. Some reach 0.0%; the label says which.

“Zero proof” isn’t one of those defined terms. It is used on drinks at 0.0% and on drinks under 0.5%, so look for the percentage, not the phrase.

How it was made matters too. A dealcoholized wine was once wine with alcohol in it; a never-alcoholized one was never fermented, so alcohol never formed. Both can be 0.0%.

Our guide to how non-alcoholic wine is made explains the methods, and every never-alcoholized drink we carry is on one shelf.

Popular brands, by the label

Most questions we see name a brand: is Fre safe for pregnancy, is Stella Rosa, is Ritual. We sell all of these, so here is what each label says. The deciding line is 0.0%: a brand under 0.5% can be a fine non-alcoholic wine and still not be the one to choose in pregnancy.

“On our shelf” means our pregnancy-friendly shelf. Alcohol and method as stated on each producer’s label for the bottles we carry, October 2026. Labels change, so check the bottle in your hand.

Can the label be wrong?

Sometimes. A review in Canadian Family Physician (2014) reported a test of 45 non-alcoholic and low-alcohol drinks: 13 of them, 29%, contained more alcohol than their labels declared, and some labeled 0.0% or non-alcoholic held up to 1.8%. The authors concluded that, because no safe level of alcohol is known in pregnancy, the safest course is to avoid these drinks altogether.

That test was of drinks sold in Canada more than a decade ago, and it remains a fair reason for caution. It is also why we built our pregnancy-friendly shelf the way we did:

Non-alcoholic spirits and zero-proof drinks

Non-alcoholic spirits raise a second question beyond alcohol. Ritual Zero Proof and Lyre’s are labeled under 0.5%. Seedlip is labeled 0.0% and is distilled from botanicals. Many spirit alternatives are built on botanicals, and some on adaptogens such as ashwagandha or functional mushrooms, which have little or no research in pregnancy. Our guide to adaptogen drinks covers what they are. A spirit alternative labeled 0.0% can still contain them, so read the ingredients, and ask your provider about anything you don’t recognize. Our pregnancy-friendly shelf leaves them out.

Sulfites, organic and sugar

Myths, answered

And after the baby: breastfeeding

The guidance changes after birth. The CDC says that “not drinking alcohol is the safest option for breastfeeding mothers,” that up to one drink a day “is not known to be harmful to the infant,” and that to be safest a mother “can wait at least 2 hours after a single drink before nursing,” because “the alcohol level in breast milk is essentially the same as the alcohol level in a mother’s bloodstream.” A 0.0% wine has no detectable alcohol to wait out; one under 0.5% has a trace. More in our guide to non-alcoholic wine and beer while breastfeeding.

If you choose non-alcoholic wine

• Look for 0.0% or “alcohol-free”, not “non-alcoholic”, “dealcoholized” or “zero proof” alone.
• Prefer producers who publish testing or a full ingredient list.
• Never-alcoholized wines never contained alcohol at all, if that matters to you.
• Check the sugar: many non-alcoholic wines add some back.
• Talk to your doctor or midwife, especially if you have been advised to avoid these drinks.

Prefer beer? See is non-alcoholic beer safe during pregnancy?. Celebrating? Our baby shower drinks guide has recipes and toasts, and every bottle on our pregnancy-friendly shelf states 0.0%.