What would it take for a non-alc wine to be truly great?
For years, non-alc wine had an undeniable problem. It was thin, overly sweet & lacked structure. It wasn’t wine in the way people understood wine.
So Chris & Tyler decided to not just create the next non-alc wine. They deconstructed the entire process to figure out where non-alc wine historically kept going wrong.
Using Chris’ experience as a Biologist & Tyler’s experience as an Okanagan winemaker, they were able to discover the precise combination of factors a non-alc wine required to remain authentic to the full wine experience.
From the very beginning, ONES took a fundamentally different approach:
100% Canadian grapes
A focus on true wine structure & complexity
An advanced alcohol removal process that preserves character
And critically, zero sugar—because great wine doesn’t need to hide behind sweetness
This unique approach is what skyrocketed ONES from a living room startup to Canada’s 1st non-alcoholic winery to getting a million dollar offer on CBC’s Dragons’ Den to crossing a historic milestone of 500,000 bottles sold across Canada and beyond.
To celebrate this historic moment, ONES did something symbolic:
The 500,000th bottle was presented to Member of Parliament, Stephen Fuhr on Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
As a Member of Parliament from the Okanagan, Stephen Fuhr represents the region where ONES began—home to the vineyards, the craft, and the people behind every bottle. This symbolic moment recognized both ONES’ Okanagan roots and the national momentum behind these unique non-alc wines.
“Reaching 500,000 bottles this quickly speaks to a massive shift in consumer behavior. People are actively looking for better non-alc wine—and they’re no longer willing to compromise on taste to get them,” said Chris Pagliocchini, Co-Founder of ONES.
Half a million bottles in, the mission hasn’t changed. ONES started because people wanted a non-alc wine with authentic aromas, flavours & structure—and it exploded into Canada’ fastest growing non-alc winery because it delivered on exactly that.
And now, ONES is already well on their way to the next milestone: 1 Million Bottles.
