We make non-alcoholic drinks built for the wine occasion, brewed from whole botanicals and juice. We slow-brew our ingredients and work with tannins, acidity, salinity, carbonation, and body to create something that not only holds its own at the table but is also infinitely drinkable on its own.

No. Dry Wit contains zero alcohol. We build our products from scratch using botanicals and juice, so there's nothing to remove. What you're getting is genuinely, completely non-alcoholic.

Not exactly, but it earns a spot in the same conversation. We found that dealcoholized wine always felt like it was missing something, and it still contains trace alcohol. So we charted a new path and built something from the ground up. Some folks call us a wine alternative, a wine proxy, or a temperance pairing. We just call it Dry Wit.

We think so, but here's what you're actually paying for. We brew with whole botanicals, never extracts, which takes longer and costs more but produces something that tastes like it emerged slowly from a lost society. Every batch ages a minimum of one month before it leaves our hands, because the product keeps developing and we won't rush it. We use verjus as a base, a real ingredient with genuine acidity and structure, not sugar or a commodity juice. And we run small batches, which means quality control is tight but volume discounts aren't a thing. If you've had a glass of wine and understood why it costs more than the stuff in a cardboard box, you already get it. Dry Wit is built the same way, just without the alcohol.

Think of them the way you'd think about wine across a meal. Pippi is where you start: bright, lively, and built for the moment before the food gets serious. Open a bottle while you're still figuring out what everyone wants to eat. Salinger arrives with the meal and stays as long as you need it to, comfortable with almost anything on the table and in no hurry to leave. Bruce is for the end of the night, when the food gets richer or the fire gets involved. Salinger and Bruce have real overlap depending on where the meal goes, and that's by design. And if there's no meal at all? Any of the three are worth opening just to have something worth drinking in your hand.

Verjus (vair-ZHOO) is the pressed juice of unripe grapes, typically a byproduct of thinning the vine during the growing season. It's tart, bright, and has been used in cooking for centuries. We use it as a base because it gives our products a wine-like structure without any alcohol. It also happens to be an ingredient that would otherwise go to waste, which we like.

You can find our current list of stockists here. If you don't see your favorite spot, help us connect. We have a distributor covering most of Minnesota and a wholesale partner for shipping around the US, and we're always looking for new retail and restaurant partners.

Yes, we ship to the lower 48 directly from our Shop page.

Chilled, in a stemmed wine glass. The carbonation does real work moving flavor around your palate, and it prefers cold, so put your bottle in the fridge the day before you plan to open it. That said, we also enjoy letting a bottle gently warm and evolve over a long meal, similar to how a wine breathes. We also enjoy drinking them at the beach, in the car, while cooking, in front of a fire, or in bed. There's no wrong way to drink them.

Our products are shelf stable with an exceptionally long shelf life, and here's something worth knowing: they get better with time. Like a wine with good bones, Dry Wit continues to develop in the bottle, and a bottle you set aside today will reward you for it later. Store unopened bottles somewhere cool and dry, out of direct light. If you're planning to drink one soon, the fridge works great. Once open, our 750mL bottles reseal with a sparkling wine stopper and will hold well in the fridge for two to three days. Our smaller bottles are designed to be finished in one sitting, which, honestly, has never been a problem. If you catch us at a tasting, we usually have stoppers to share for free.

We don't use any animal-derived or gluten-containing ingredients at any stage in our production, and don't share a space with anyone who does.

This is a nuanced question, and we want to give you a real answer. Dry Wit contains zero alcohol and uses a clean, simple ingredient list with no functional additives, no bittering herbs, and no hard-to-investigate compounds. That said, we always recommend checking with your healthcare provider. We've done our part to make the ingredient list easy to read and share with them.

Between 10 and 15 calories per five-ounce pour, depending on the product. We don't add sugar, so all the calories come from the juice we use.

We would love to hear from you, good experience or bad. Fill out the form on our Contact page or email us directly at hello@drywit.com.