Rosé (3 L bag-in-box)
77/100
The short takeRedcurrant and bilberry with a soft floral lift — light, fresh, short gently fruity close for everyday pouring.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve Chilled; the bag-in-box format keeps it fresh for weeks after opening.
Who it’s for Weeknight pours, big tables, the box that lives in the fridge door.
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In the glass
- Nose
- redcurrant and bilberry, with a soft floral lift — fruit-forward rather than savoury.
- Palate
- Light and fresh; berry fruit over gentle acidity, designed to be poured generously rather than studied.
- Finish
- Clean and short, gently fruity.
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Structure
- Acidity
- Bright acidity
- Body
- Light body
- Finish length
- Short finish
How wine-like is it?
Separate from the score. A convincing resemblance is not a higher rating.
Fruit-forward rosé, not a savory one. Redcurrant and bilberry over gentle acidity, made to pour rather than to study. The shape is wine. The short, soft close is the limit.
The wine
The close is clean, short, and gently fruity — redcurrant and bilberry fading without drama. That brief, soft exit matches a bottle built to be poured generously rather than studied: everyday pink, not a ceremonial flute moment, and not a sparkling berry show.
The sip stays light and fresh; berry fruit over gentle acidity, bright enough to stay refreshing across a long pour. Light body, short clean exit — no fine-bead sparkle story here, just still rosé fruit that resets quickly. Floral lift on the smell, berry through the middle, gently fruity on the way out.
Chilled, it suits the bag-in-box pace: keep topping the glass, let the floral-berry line stay easy, and accept the short gently fruity exit as the design, not a flaw. Redcurrant and bilberry for everyday length — fruit-forward rather than savoury, pour again, study never. Bright acidity, light body, short gently fruity exit — bulk pink for the week, not for the toast. Redcurrant and bilberry, then a quick reset for the next pour.
77 sits below the median of the 33 dealcoholized Rosé bottles we've tasted.
The bottle
Trade record, where to buy, and product facts.
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Research notes
The exact BIB page does not identify removal equipment or publish a complete ingredient list. A vacuum bag is packaging, not evidence of vacuum distillation. The range-level spinning-cone article does not establish the method for this particular format.
Where to buy
- Pierre Chavin
- Package
3 L
€19.50 (3 L bag-in-box) — Pierre Chavin, EU
- Also listed
- Pierre Chavin · Producer
- Availability
EU retail and direct via shop.pierre-chavin.com; US via Upside Drinks and specialty NA retailers
Prices and availability are independently observed and may change. Retailer listings do not imply endorsement. A different package is labeled as a different format. Reader-service exceptions and commercial links are identified above; neither affects scores, rankings, classification, verification, or editorial coverage.
Product facts
- Producer
- Maison Chavin (France)
- Origin
- France
- Base beverage
- Chardonnay and Merlot wine, dealcoholized (producer technical sheet, also available as BIB 3 L)
- Bottle / can
- 3 litres (bag-in-box)
Sources & verification
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Evidence at a glance
- Producer documented6 facts
- Secondary source1 fact
- Retailer sourced2 facts
- Unverified3 facts
Sources
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Producer shop.pierre-chavin.com
Producer documented3 notes
- Barcode (EAN/GTIN)
- GTIN-13 in the exact 3 L product page metadata; not the 750 ml bottle code.
- Production
- SKU-specific producer statement supports alcohol removal. Equipment and a complete ingredient list remain undeclared.
- Method
- Removal is documented, but no SKU-specific technique is published.
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Note
- Country
- The Pierre Zéro collection page calls the brand French non-alcoholic wine and lists the contact as Béziers, France. The bag-in-box shop page does not print a country.
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Note
- Price
- Observation date backfilled from price research ledger (observed 2026-09-20).
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- Verified
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.
- Classification changed · ClassificationCorrected from no to yes. Primary production-type evidence established by the exact producer 3 L listing; this does not verify a named removal technique.
- Method verified · MethodCorrected from Low-temperature vacuum distillation (producer) to Undeclared. The opened 3 L producer page supports dealcoholization but names no equipment. The prior vacuum-distillation claim was unsupported; vacuum bag packaging is not a removal process.
77/100