# Any Good Non-Alcoholic Wines? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** wine\ **Created:** [July 28, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416 "2015-07-28T20:14:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/1 "2015-07-28T20:14:15Z")
I ask because I am on a medication that interacts with alcohol-simply put, i cannot have any. I like a nice oakey Chardonnay, well chilled-are there any decent non-alcoholic versions of this? In general, are the de-alcoholized wines greatly inferior? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/2 "2015-07-28T21:22:47Z")
No. Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/3 "2015-07-28T21:26:36Z")
Isn’t that what people drink sparkling ciders for, a non-alcoholic alternative to wine? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/4 "2015-07-28T21:38:51Z")
They do make non-alcoholic “sparkling” grape juice. It’s pretty good, too! I’m not sure how you’d get the “wine” taste, though, without the bite of alcohol. (Are there any truly non-alcoholic beer substitutes? AIUI, near-beer has a small amount of C2H6O.) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/5 "2015-07-28T21:42:33Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > (Are there any truly non-alcoholic beer substitutes? AIUI, near-beer has a small amount of C2H6O.) I believe they can’t advertise themselves as “near beer” unless they have less than 0.5% ABV, which is a low enough amount as to be trivial unless you had some sort of health issue that made you hypersensitive to alcohol. I mean, you’d be talking ten of those things to equal the alcohol in one Budweiser. I have to pee just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/6 "2015-07-28T21:52:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > No. Yes. Good answer. My daughter likes wine, but would rather not consume alcohol (the apple fell way far from the tree). I’ve purchased nonalcoholic wine for her every time she visits and they have all sucked, per her as well as others. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/7 "2015-08-04T16:53:21Z")
I bought a bottle-no alcohol chardonnay - terriblE!☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/8 "2015-08-04T16:56:39Z")
I was at a winery recently and they had [verjus](http://store.wolffer.com/verjus-2014-non-alcoholic-green-juice-p459.aspx) there for sale. My husband was driving so he got a glass… not terrible. Not at all like an oaky chardonnay (at least theirs wasn’t) but it was better than I thought it would be. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-non-alcoholic-wines/726416/9 "2015-08-04T17:03:54Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I bought a bottle-no alcohol chardonnay - terriblE!☹ Bummer. Unless the medication is Disulfiram (Antabuse), is there any way around your “no alcohol” issue?