Noughty Rosé Non-Alcoholic Wine

It's a pale pink, Provençal-style rosé with notes of strawberry, watermelon and cherry — though white peach and white florals lead, with strawberry taking a back seat. Two months on the lees adds a subtle creaminess, and it finishes clean, delicately acidic and lightly mineral.

It's lovely alongside lobster, hard-pressed cheeses, or even a scoop of ice cream for dessert. The delicate acidity and clean finish keep it food-friendly without overwhelming the plate.

It's made with South African grapes — Chenin Blanc with just a whisper of Pinotage — by Noughty. Each bottle is 750 mL.

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.

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