Chardonnay
77/100
The short takeTropical and soft — lychee, peach, and pineapple lead a lightly sweet sip that finishes short-medium and peachy. Easy fruit with modest ambition.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve Chilled, everyday white-wine glass.
Who it’s for The first glass of the evening, mild cheese, or anyone who wants soft tropical fruit without a dry dare.
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TDS Wineprint
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In the glass
- Appearance
- Pale straw.
- Nose
- Lychee, peach, and pineapple — tropical fruit first, with peach staying soft and floral around the edges.
- Palate
- Soft, fruity, lightly sweet through the middle. Peach and pineapple carry the sip; the sweetness sits under the fruit rather than on top, without a sharp acid cut.
- Finish
- Short-medium — tropical fruit fading into a peachy close, gone before it argues for structure.
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Structure
- Sweetness
- Off-dry
- Acidity
- Moderate acidity
- Body
- Light body
- Finish length
- Medium finish
- Carbonation
- Still
How wine-like is it?
Separate from the score. A convincing resemblance is not a higher rating.
Reads as a soft, fruity nonalcoholic white more than a classic Chardonnay structure — tropical sweetness over oak or mineral line.
The wine
Tropical fruit does the talking. Lychee and peach open with pineapple behind them — soft, fruity, lightly sweet, and gone before the glass pretends toward structure.
Pale straw under a white screw cap with a thin red collar. The nose is lychee first, then peach and pineapple — tropical rather than orchard Chardonnay. On the palate the fruit stays soft and lightly sweet; peach and pineapple carry the middle without a sharp acid cut or oak frame. Short-medium finish fades tropical into peachy and stops. Technique undeclared; the Be Free line is dealcoholized German wine under a half-percent ceiling. At this price band it sits with the other Be Free whites: easy fruit, modest ambition, no betrayal into bitterness. Chill it, pour it for people who want tropical softness without a dare, and do not ask it to be Giesen or Isabel.
77 sits below the median of the 29 dealcoholized Chardonnay bottles we've tasted.
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Research notes
Vivino lists Be Free Dealcoholized Chardonnay; named removal technology unpublished. Evidence normalization 2026-09-21: the verified mark was removed — the classification rests on a secondary source (Vivino); the dealcoholized classification is unchanged. Dutch retailer listings for the same barcode print the bottler as Peter Mertes KG Weinkeller, Bernkastel-Kues. Peter Mertes KG says on its company page that it operates its own vacuum distillation plant for dealcoholization; it does not tie Be Free to that plant, so the technique stays undeclared.
Where to buy
No producer purchase link on file.
- Package
750 ml
- Typical price
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32.50 PLN / 750 ml
- Availability
European retail including Spiżarnia pod Łysą Górą (PL); US specialty listings vary
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Product facts
- Producer
- Peter Mertes
- Origin
Germany- Bottle / can
- 750 ml
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Sources & verification
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Where sources disagree
Sources disagree on the following points.
- Region: Vivino lists Mosel; CellarTracker lists Pfalz. Region left blank until a producer source settles it.
Evidence at a glance
- Bottle verified1 fact
- Retailer sourced9 facts
- Unverified3 facts
Production record
3 core facts remain to be documented or rechecked.
- Classification
- Not verified
- Method
- Undeclared
- ABV
- Ceiling declaration
- Origin
- Documented
- Record
- Has open discrepancy
Sources
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Bottle / can label Bottle label
- Volume
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Note
- Production
- It does not name a removal machine.
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Note
- Producer
- Listing for the same EAN as the identifiers block prints "Gebotteld door: Peter Mertes KG Weinkeller, Bornwiese 4, 54470 Bernkastel-Kues". Broeders Gezondheidswinkel carries the same bottler line.
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Community database Community database
- Barcode (EAN/GTIN)
Note
- Barcode (EAN/GTIN)
- Barcode recorded from packaging or producer listing Unable to re-verify on 2026-10-10.
Additional sources
Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.
- ReviewedReviewed and published.
- UpdatedCatalog record updated from sourced research.
- OpenDiscrepancyRegion.
Structure
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77/100