Kolonne Null Non-Alcoholic Riesling

Expect clean yellow fruit — peach and ripe pear — with a classic hint of petrol on the nose. A zingy acidity and nice minerality give it real tension and a crisp, zippy finish.

Its bright acidity makes it a natural with duck, pork, and chicken. Serve it well chilled so the minerality and fruit stay lively alongside richer poultry dishes.

It's made by Kolonne Null in Germany from Riesling grapes, and comes in a 750 ml bottle.

Kolonne Null is a German non-alcoholic wine producer based in Berlin, founded there in 2018 by artist Philipp Rößle along with co-founder Moritz Zyrewitz. Rather than owning vineyards, the team works with partner wineries around Europe and blends, tastes and selects the base wines at their Berlin workshop before the alcohol is removed by gentle vacuum distillation. That's why the grapes vary by bottle — the Verdejo comes from Rueda in Spain, while the rosé is sourced from Provence and the sparkling wines from Germany.

For a drink to be legally non-alcoholic, it has to be 0.5% alcohol by volume or less. While this doesn't make it totally alcohol-free, it does mean it is impossible to experience any intoxication or other psychoactive effects from alcohol. For context, a slice of sourdough bread or a ripe banana has more alcohol by volume than any of our drinks!

We carry a few hundred different products on our website with all different ingredients. We suggest you consult with your doctor regarding specific ingredients. Everything we carry is non-alcoholic-- less than 0.5% ABV-- and very popular with our customers who are pregnant (and those who aren't, too)!

Some of our products contain adaptogens, nootropics, and other herbs that are not recommended for people who are pregnant, but we're not doctors and do not give medical advice. Every body and pregnancy is different, so we suggest talking to a healthcare professional if you're unsure.

Not all of our non-alcoholic beverages are 100% alcohol-free. Some contain trace amounts of alcohol at less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.  This is consistent with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s labeling policy, which permits the use of the term, “non-alcoholic” to describe a product that contains less than 0.5% alcohol by volume.

If you are looking for products that are 0.0% alcohol by volume, look for the "Alcohol-Free" badge on the product page.

Dealcoholized wine is wine that has gone through the entire wine making process-- pressing, fermentation, and aging-- before the alcohol is removed.

Most wines are dealcoholized using a technique called "vacuum distillation", where the wine is heated under a vacuum at very low temperatures. This allows for the alcohol to evaporate at a much lower temperature than boiling it off on your stove, like when you cook with alcohol or spirits. The result is that the flavor molecules that make up the flavor notes stay intact, giving our dealcoholized wines their characteristic complexity.

Sometimes, producers may add grape juice, grape must (a crush of whole grapes), sugar, or flavoring agents back to the dealcoholized wine in order to bulk up the body or balance the flavor.