Chardonnay

Name: Be Well Chardonnay
Brand: Be Well

Image: The Dry Standard

78/100

The short take
Soft and rounded rather than sharp, with golden apple and pear carrying a light honey note into vanilla-oak. Easy weeknight Chardonnay weight without turning syrupy.

Tasted 22 Sep 2026Karl Hill How we score

Serve Chilled, white-wine glass.

Who it’s for Weeknight white, roast chicken, or a mild cheese board when you want soft oak without a heavy pour.

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TDS Wineprint

This pour · documented production

Sweetness Off-dry Firsthand tasting
Acidity Moderate acidity Firsthand tasting
Body Medium body Firsthand tasting
Finish Medium Firsthand tasting
Made Spinning cone Producer documented

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In the glass

Appearance: Pale gold.
Nose: Golden apple and pear with a clear honey note — orchard fruit first, sweetness already in the aroma before the sip.
Palate: Soft and rounded, lightly sweet through the middle. Vanilla-oak fills without turning heavy; apple and pear stay in charge, the sweet edge checked rather than syrupy.
Finish: Medium length — apple and vanilla trail off together, the oak fading before the fruit does.

Structure and likeness Show Hide

Structure

Sweetness: Off-dry
Acidity: Moderate acidity
Body: Medium 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 California-style Chardonnay — orchard fruit and light oak, not juice dressed as wine.

The wine

The middle is where this lands. Soft, rounded, lightly sweet — vanilla-oak fills the space without a butter bomb or a candy fade. Golden apple and pear do the work; honey is already on the sniff.

Orchard fruit opens clean: golden apple, pear, a honey edge that telegraphs the off-dry register before the sip. The pour is pale gold in clear glass under a silver screw cap. On the palate the fruit stays in charge while oak and vanilla soften the middle — not sharp, not thin, not pretending toward a heavy California barrel pour. Acidity is moderate; the sweetness sits under it rather than on top. Medium finish trails apple and vanilla together. At under twelve dollars this is a soft, usable house Chardonnay for nights when Appalina is gone and Isabel is too much oak for the table. Chill it; a white-wine glass is enough.

78 sits below the median of the 29 dealcoholized Chardonnay bottles we've tasted.

The bottle

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Producer: fermented as full-strength wine, then run through a spiral cone and alcohol removed by a heat-free evaporation process repeated until less than 0.5% ABV remains

Research notes

Front label: Premium American · Be Well · Chardonnay · Dealcoholized Wine · 25.4 FL OZ (750ML).

Where to buy

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Package: 750 ml

$14.99 (Total Wine & More, 750 ml)

Also listed: Be Well Wine (US) · Producer
Be Well Wine — Our Process (US) · Citation
Availability: US retail including Total Wine & More; grocery delivery (Instacart/DoorDash listings)

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Product facts

Producer: Be Well Wine
Origin: California, United States
Bottle / can: 750 ml

Sources & verification

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Producer documented4 facts
Bottle verified2 facts
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Historical documentation1 fact
Unverified1 fact

Production record

The core production facts are documented and current.

Classification: Verified
Method: Named method
ABV: Ceiling declaration
Origin: Documented
Record: Current

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Producer home page calls the Chardonnay a Premium American dealcoholized wine.
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Label: 25.4 FL OZ (750ML).
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Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.

22 Sep 2026ReviewedReviewed and published.
7 Nov 2026UpdatedCatalog record updated from sourced research.