Non-Alcoholic Wine, Explained
How it is made, how to choose, and what to pour. Dealcoholized, never-fermented, still and sparkling — with what is actually on the label.
Non-alcoholic wine takes one of two routes. Some is fermented as wine and then has the alcohol removed, by vacuum distillation or reverse osmosis, and keeps the acidity and dry finish that fermenting gave it. Some was never fermented at all, and builds structure from tea, botanicals and grape must. Neither is grape juice.
Not sure where to start?
Browse non-alcoholic wines →A lot to walk into. These are the ones we hand people who would rather skip the reading.
Add to cartEditor's ChoiceThree-Bottle Tasting Set — Copenhagen Sparkli…0% · Never AlcoholizedDenmark$109.99
Add to cartSparklingSeñorío de la Tautila Espumoso Rosado Sparkli…0.0% · DealcoholizedTempranillo · Spain$25.00
Sparkling and champagne
The biggest thing this section covers, and the easiest place to start.
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Choosing and buying
Which bottle, at what price, and where to find it.
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Levels and labels
What the number on the bottle actually means, and why two of them are not the same.
Still: red and white
The styles that ask most of the process.
Cooking and pairing
Before the glass, and beside it.
Put it to work
All recipes →
Recipe · Wine & SparklingNon-Alcoholic Sangria
Red wine, citrus and stone fruit, left to sit. The one drink on the site that gets better for waiting.
Recipe · Wine & SparklingNon-Alcoholic Golden Hour Spritz
Aperitif under sparkling wine — a gentler spritz for the end of the day, where the bubbles do as much work as the bitters.
Recipe · Wine & SparklingNon-Alcoholic Garden Herb Royale
Sparkling tea, vermouth and fresh herbs — the drink to make when you want something dry and grown-up.
How this section works
Wine · a note from the desk
The short answer above covers what these bottles are. This section is the long version: how the way it was made shows up in the glass, how to choose a first bottle, what sparkling rosé actually delivers, where reduced-alcohol wine fits, and what to eat alongside a dealcoholized red.
The number on the label is where most questions start, and it is the one worth reading closely. A wine at 0.5% is a different proposition from one that never fermented, and 0.0% is different again. ABV, sugar and calories are published on every bottle we list, because that is the only way to compare two of these honestly.
If you are starting from nothing, start sparkling. It is the easiest of these to get right and the hardest to be disappointed by.
— The Dry Pour
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All of it →Who writes this, and how
The Dry Pour is written by the people who run the shop. We buy everything we sell and taste most of it. Where we have not tasted something, we say so and describe it from the label and the producer rather than pretending otherwise.
We publish ABV, calories and sugar on every product we list, and we print what the producer states rather than a tidied-up version of it — which is why you will see both 0.0% and 0% on this site, because they are not the same claim.
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