Riesling
81/100
The short takeA solid, wine-like dealcoholized Riesling — bright acid, clear fruit, with the must and concentrate showing as extra sweetness and a softer mid-palate. More convincing than most nonalcoholic whites; not as dry or structured as a traditional Mosel.
Tasted Karl HillHow we score
Serve Well chilled, in a white-wine glass.
Who it’s for Weeknight fish, spicy takeout, or the Mosel drinker who will accept off-dry for a wine-shaped glass without ethanol.
If you like Off-dry Mosel Riesling or Fruit-forward nonalcoholic whites.
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In the glass
- Nose
- fruit-led: green apple and pear, lemon, white peach, a light floral lift, and a faint slate line underneath. It smells like Mosel fruit more than cordial.
- Palate
- the wine is light-bodied and crisp. Apple, pear, citrus, and peach arrive early, and the acidity keeps the sip lively rather than flat. Balance is the fight: acid does the Mosel work, but the must and concentrate push sweetness and a softer, slightly juice-like roundness through the mid-palate. Mouthfeel starts precis….
- Finish
- Medium-short. Tart apple and lemon, with peach sweetness hanging on. A mild mineral dryness cleans the end; a soft concentrate note stays on the back.
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Structure
- Sweetness
- Off-dry
- Acidity
- Bright acidity
- Body
- Light body
How wine-like is it?
Separate from the score. A convincing resemblance is not a higher rating.
More wine than juice — Riesling fruit and acid carry the glass. The must and concentrate still show as sweetness and softness, so it is less dry and less structured than a traditional Mosel.
The wine
Balance is the fight here: Mosel acid against the sweetness and soft roundness the must and concentrate push through the middle.
Light-bodied and crisp on entry. Then the rebuild shows: a softer, slightly juice-like mid-palate where sweetness rounds what a drier Mosel would leave lean. Mouthfeel starts crisp and light, then that rounded middle arrives. Off-dry enough to notice; bright acid enough to argue back. Highlight of the glass: acidity keeps the fruit lively even while the rebuild sweetens and softens the middle.
Finish is medium-short — tart apple and lemon, peach sweetness hanging on, a mild mineral dryness cleaning the end, and a soft concentrate note on the back. More wine than juice. The fruit and acid carry the glass; the must and concentrate still show as sweetness and softness, so it is less dry, and less taut, than a traditional Mosel. Well chilled, white-wine glass.
81 is typical of the 19 dealcoholized Riesling bottles we've tasted.
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Research notes
The SITE front label explicitly states Riesling Dealcoholized and directly supports that production classification.
Where to buy
- Package
750 ml
$14.99 (750 ml bottle) — ShopWineDirect, US
- Availability
US retail (purchased 2026-09-19). Imported by Constantine Wines Inc., Columbia, Maryland (back label).
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
- Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler
- Origin
- Mosel, Germany
- Residual sugar
- 35.6 g/L
- Base beverage
- 100% Riesling wine, fermented then dealcoholized
- Bottle / can
- 750 ml
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- Producer: The stored producer, Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler, comes from the importer sheet for the matching barcode. The SITE back label says only German dealcoholized wine bottled in Ürzig, distr. Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler, D-Bernkastel/Mosel, imported by Constantine Wines Inc., Columbia, MD. It does not say who made the wine or whether Pauly-Bergweiler bottled it.
- Product: The barcode on this bottle matches Dr. Pauly-Bergweiler Noble House Riesling Alcohol Free on the Winesellers Ltd. listing and fact sheet. Matching technical specs (Mosel Riesling, low-temperature alcohol removal, residual sugar in the mid-30s g/L) strongly suggest SITE is an alternate or private-label presentation of the same wine. The producer has not published an explicit statement tying the SITE label to Noble House, so the relationship is not treated as confirmed.
- ABV: The SITE bottle prints <0.5% ABV. The Winesellers fact sheet for the matching UPC prints <0.03% by vol. This review prints <0.5% from the bottle and records the sheet figure.
- Sugar: SITE bottle nutrition: 18 kcal / 100 ml, 3.4 g carbohydrate / 100 ml, 3.3 g sugar / 100 ml (~33 g/L; ~135 kcal per 750 ml). Noble House sheet: 35.6 g/L residual sugar. Extremely close on sugar; bottle nutrition is from the SITE label in this cellar, not reprinted on the sheet.
- Ingredients: SITE bottle ingredients: dealcoholized wine, grape must, grape juice concentrate. That is fermented Riesling with ethanol removed, then grape-derived material used to rebuild sweetness/body/flavor. The Winesellers Noble House sheet does not reprint that ingredient line.
- Method: The Noble House distributor sheet says the wine is gently heated to a maximum of 27°C so the alcohol evaporates. It does not identify the equipment or confirm the SITE private-label relationship. The previous suggestion of vacuum distillation has been removed; no machine or pressure regime is inferred from temperature.
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- Unverified1 fact
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- ABV
- Rechecked 2026-09-25.
- Barcode (EAN/GTIN)
- Barcode read from the back label and matches the stored identifier; the EAN check digit validates.
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- Equipment and applicability to SITE are not established.
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- Observation date backfilled from price research ledger (observed 2026-09-20).
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Product record history Sourced changes and open disagreements. Prior claims stay on the record when sources conflict.
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- UpdatedCatalog record updated from sourced research.
- Classification changed · ClassificationCorrected from no to yes. The photographed SITE label is primary evidence for Dealcoholized; method and Noble House identity remain separate questions.
- Method verified · MethodCorrected from Low-temperature evaporation — likely vacuum distillation (gently heated to a maximum of 27°C so the alcohol evaporates; equipment not named) to Undeclared for SITE; the matching-barcode Noble House importer sheet describes alcohol evaporation at up to 27°C, without naming equipment.. Reopened the importer sheet. It names evaporation and a maximum temperature, not vacuum distillation. SITE-to-Noble-House equivalence remains unconfirmed.
- OpenDiscrepancyProducer, Product, ABV, Sugar, Ingredients, and Method.