Noughty Non-Alcoholic Blanc

It's soft, fruity and floral — think yellow apple, green apple and Meyer lemon with chamomile, honeysuckle and jasmine aromatics. Two months on the lees adds a subtle creaminess and a hint of brioche, making it more aromatic and delicate than most dealcoholized wines.

Treat it like an elegant white wine: it pairs nicely with corn on the cob, hard pressed cheeses and pasta dishes. It's also a nice pour for occasions like a baby shower.

It's a blend of South African Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay from producer Noughty, and comes in a 750 ml bottle.

Noughty is made by Thomson & Scott, the company founded by Amanda Thomson, a former BBC arts broadcaster who studied wine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and started the business in 2013 with the goal of making organic, vegan-friendly low- and no-alcohol wines. The brand is British — Noughty launched in London in autumn 2019 and is now sold in dozens of countries — while the wine itself is sourced abroad: the Sparkling Chardonnay and Sparkling Rosé come from Spanish organic grapes, and the still Rouge (Syrah from Darling) and Blanc (Chenin Blanc and Chardonnay from the Western Cape) come from South Africa. Thomson & Scott is a certified B Corp.

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.

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.

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.