To ask what is the best low/non alcoholic red wine

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After years of overindulging on red wine at the weekends I've decided I need to cut back. I love the taste and depth of a glass of wine....I know low alcohol won't touch the real deal but in your opinion which one comes closest? Thanks in advance

Honestly there are none! Sorry not helpful.

None. But I’ll follow in case anyone has found one. It’s what I’m missing most in pregnancy!

None. If I want to drink low alcohol or alcohol free alcoholic drinks I find that A F beer is a better option.

There are none. I agree with pp that AF beer is a better option.

All AF red wine is disgusting.

None. Dark AF beer or cherry and cinnamon herbal teal is closest to that feeling IMO.

None. Give up now before you waste time and money. That depth and taste is alcohol. Have a cup of tea

None, sorry. I drink tonic water with a slice of lime if I don't want to drink

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None. Don't fall for any promises to the contrary, I have tried them all and they are all shit. Alcohol-free gin, on the other hand, is pretty good...

They are all terrible, sorry. The alcohol free beer is really good, as are some of the spirit alternatives, and there are also good complex soft drinks (Fever Tree Blood Orange mixer is great) and kombucha, but I've never had an alcohol free wine that didn't end up down the sink.

Red grape Shloer? Agree won’t really taste like wine though.
Better off having an actual glass of wine and adding water to it.

Abstinence. Honestly, they're all awful, and I love red wine!

Like PPs have said though, alcohol free beer isn't too bad. Or a Nosecco type fizzy is marginally better that the red.

I would look into something else you enjoy in a similar way. I've never like any of the AF wines. Too sweet, it's hard to make a decent dry AF wine. I do quite enjoy Juke's (but they are expensive), but kombucha is nice (and not as expensive if you make your own). I actually quite like Seedlip Spice with tonic as the bitterness is better than overly sweet fake wine.

There isn't one. But what you can do is find a dark, rich flavoured red at about 14% and cut it one part wine to one part water, which brings the alcohol content down to 7%. My dad used to do this with Italian wines. The flavour comes through. Use a nice mineral water like Evian not UK tap.

Only thing I like instead of wine is sparking water in a wine glass! But maybe that's more a white wine replacement

I just asked my husband who likes Lindmans. He used to really enjoy a glass of red wine so for him to drink it now that he's teetotal it can't be that bad.

Oh dear 😳....that's disappointing reading!! I'll give tge Lindemans a try otherwise maybe I need to switch to white and add fizz to make a spritzer!! Thanks all for your replies

Try the ultra low alcohol wines/dealcoholized wines. Far too many of the "alcohol free" wines are really just grape juice.

Gordons or Tanquerry (can't remember the spelling) are very nice gins especially with ice and a decent tonic.

The lagers can be very good especially the import stuff (there's one Dutch lager the local shop randomly carried for a while which was amazing. Damned if I can remember the name of it though. Damn)

The range of stuff out there has exploded in the last couple of years and is way better than the Becks blue or erm nothing choice of back in the day.

As pp have all said, they are universally vile. I had to give up drinking for medical reasons for three months about twelve years ago and tried everything that The Alcohol Free Shop in Manchester stocked at the time. I do like a glass of wine but I'd genuinely rather go without. Beers are much better, but imported AF beer is better still (largely down to the legal definition of 'alcohol free' which, as you might expect, is different in the UK compared to the rest of Europe).

If it's to deal with over-indulgence of red wine on a weekend, buy yourself a 250ml carafe and use some self-control to make one bottle last three days.

I drink a lot of AF beer and AF ‘gin’. Some AF fizz is palatable.

But wine? No. Red wine - no, tried some fairly expensive ones and they went down the sink. Actually unpleasant.

Mulled wine is lower alcohol than red wine.

I’m currently pregnant and really missing red wine! All I’ve tried have been terrible. Would agree with PP alcohol free beer can be palatable I like the peroni libre one it’s quite similar just a touch sweeter. Have had some success with alcohol free proseccos - nosecco is OK and freixenet is quite citrus heavy but nice enough. If I were you I would just look to reduce how much you drink of what you really like rather than replacing it with something you don’t really want unless it’s for medical reasons of course.

They are terrible, I've given up.
AF beer is better. Tonic water and AF gin if ok.

I don't drink red wine, but have found three AF sparkling wines that aren't too sweet (1) Freixenet 0% (2) I heart zero and (3) Noughty by Thomson and Scott