Choosing
Best dealcoholized wines
The highest scores are tasted bottles. This is the dealcoholized wine in the cellar, ranked by that score.
A public score means someone on this desk tasted the bottle. Research records can sit in the catalog. They do not enter a best list. The number judges the drink in the glass, not how closely it imitates a full-strength wine. How we score.
Dealcoholized, not every nonalcoholic wine
The cellar link below is wine that had alcohol removed. Built wines and unclassified bottles are a different shelf, even when they score well. See Is dealcoholized wine actually wine?
Best wine is the highest-rated wine of any production type. Use that page for the top of the category. Use the links under this note when you want only the dealcoholized set, highest score first.
For pink wine only, see Best dealcoholized rosé. For bubbles, see Best nonalcoholic sparkling wine.
What tends to hold up
The bottles that survive tasting usually started as wine worth drinking, name the machine that took the alcohol out, and still have acid or bitterness once the ethanol is gone. Sweetness without that structure is the usual failure. How to buy dealcoholized wine. See Why is nonalcoholic wine so sweet?
In the cellar
Compare holds up to four. Want to try keeps a bottle in My Bottles.
Open it when you want a nonalcoholic red that can stand as Pinot Noir.
A lighter red when blackberry and plum, silky texture, and a lingering…
A slower glass of Tempranillo, when dark fruit and the grip should…
The Dry List is a monthly note: three bottles, one verified claim, and one worth buying. Get the monthly list.