The Healthiest Organic Wine Brands We’ve Found (Updated 2024)

If you follow us on Instagram, you know that we enjoy alcohol–despite knowing that it is absolutely a toxin. The trick, we think, is to indulge in only high quality drinks, and to be intentional about drinking, rather than cracking a beer every night just because you’ve finally had a chance to sit down. (Here are other hacks to reduce alcohol intake.)

As wine drinkers, we set out to find the healthiest organic and sulfite-free wines. Spoiler alert: Our top pick is Dry Farm Wines. We also found a couple other wine curators to recommend, which you’ll learn about in this post. All of these companies source the globe for the best organic wine, and send it right to your door.

Whether you choose these wines or another organic brand, this post will outline how to choose the cleanest wines.

Is It Better to Buy Organic Wine?

A good organic wine is sulfite-free, sugar-free, and obviously tastes great! But before getting into what makes organic wine brands so much better for you, let’s talk about regular wine. Here’s what’s wrong with most of the wine you can buy in the United States: 

1. Additives. Wines in the U.S. can include as many as 76 additives without having to disclose them on the label. These can include defoaming agents, ammonia, sawdust to mimic an oaky flavor, GMO yeasts, sulfites, artificial coloring to darken red wine, sugar or high fructose corn syrup, and “fining agents” like polyvinyl-polpyr-rolidone. All of these additives provide a consistent taste and color to wine, and can speed up wine production.
2. “Big Wine.” Just three huge companies make more than half of the thousands of wine brands in the U.S.
3. Herbicide residues. Grapes are always on the Dirty Dozen list, meaning they have high pesticide and herbicide residue. As a result, most wines contain traces of pesticides and herbicides (usually Roundup, since that’s what is sprayed on most grapes).
4. Sulfites. Wine can never be entirely sulfite-free because yeast produces sulfur dioxide during fermentation. Problems arise when winemakers add sulfites as a preservative, which can cause asthma in sensitive individuals, and which some believe increases their hangovers. Conventional wines have as much as 400 parts per million (ppm) of sulfites. 

The Healthiest Wine Brands to Drink: Meet Dry Farm Wines

Several years ago, my mom stumbled upon a wine delivery service that delivers only organic, incredibly clean, and independently-tested wines. We’ve never looked back.

Dry Farm Wines curates the highest quality clean wines from small, organic family farms. These wines meet really strict health standards. Every bottle is lab and taste tested, and then it is delivered to your door monthly or every other month. My mom and I have both been subscribers for years.

Dry Farm Wines defines “natural wine” as real wine made with native yeast and healthy grapes grown organically or biodynamically. They also make sure all of their wines have no unnecessary additives. You can even find low-alcohol organic red wines through Dry Farm.

Whether you’re looking for crisp bubblies, organic red wine brands, or low-sulfite wine, you have your pick of the best organic sugar-free wine when ordering from Dry Farm.

Every bottle of Dry Farm Wine is:

• Sugar-free (lab-tested for frucose and glucose).
• Carb-free (no sugar means no carbs!).
• No added sulfites.
• Dry-farmed.
• Friendly to every diet, including Paleo, low-carb, and Ketogenic.
• Organically or biodynamically grown (meaning holistic and ethical farming!).
• Legitimately delicious. I have yet to open a bottle of this and not like it.

If you want to try a box of Dry Farm, you can get one of the bottles for a penny with this link.

More Organic Wine Brands: Two Runners-Up

In 2023, we learned about Maker Wine, and decided they deserved special mention here. Maker offers premium canned wine that’s crafted by diverse, small-batch wine makers. Each can is a single-pour and measures one-third of a bottle of wine. Every variety of wine comes from organic and sustainable farming practices, and you can join their Can Club for 20% off a quarterly delivery of 12+ cans.

Every can of Maker Wine is:

• Sugar-free.
• <5g carbs.
• Dry-farmed.
• Friendly to every diet, including Paleo, low-carb, and Ketogenic.
• Organically or biodynamically grown (meaning holistic and ethical farming!).
• Made in small batches.
• Delicious (so far! I have tried three cans.)

In 2024, someone recommended that we take a look at Avaline, Cameron Diaz’s wine brand. I have not tasted any of these wines, but they check three important boxes in terms of being better-for-you booze, including:

• Avaline is made with only organic grapes.
• Avaline wines contain no additives or sugars.
• Avaline is exceptionally transparent, including labels on their wine that list calorie, carbohydrate, fat, protein and sugar amounts.

I look forwarding to trying Avaline, and you can get 15% off your first box with code GOODSTUFF at checkout.

FAQs About Organic Wine Brands

Do clean wine brands use dry farming?

Dry farming means growing grapes without the use of irrigation. The practice saves 16,000 gallons of water per acre per year because it relies on natural rainfall. Dry farming also results in better-tasting grapes and therefore richer tasting wines. Unfortunately, fewer than 1% of American vineyards grow grapes via dry farming.

Does Dry Farm organic wine taste good?

For me, the best part about Dry Farm Wines might be just how delish these wines are. I usually get the mixed delivery, which includes two reds, a white, a rose, a sparkling rose, and a sparkling white wine.

I wouldn’t call myself a wine snob, but I am relatively picky and truly every single bottle has been. No wine is too sweet, or felt burny on the throat. Every wine is super easy to drink (for better or worse!).

I have not tried as many of the Maker Wines, but I recently got a 6-pack of sparkling roses and whites, and they were all crisp, light, and delicious. I am excited to try more!

Are these organic wine brands really hangover-free?

I can’t speak for other organic wines, but I’ve never had a hangover from any Dry Farm wines or Maker wines.

I haven’t guzzled an entire bottle to test this theory, but I tend to get hangovers easily — especially from red wine. It seems that Dry Farm allows me to enjoy the best organic red wines, without the hangover.

This makes sense since Dry Farm wines have less sugar and less alcohol than conventional wines. I can have that extra glass without feeling extra tipsy. The lack of preservatives, artificial colors, added sulfites, and mold may also help.

Is it worth buying organic wine?

Every bottle of Dry Farm Wine is between $29 and $39 a bottle, depending on whether you subscribe or order a single box. This price includes shipment, and this link will get you an extra bottle for a penny. 

Maker Wine is nice because you get the convenience of single servings. Each case includes 6 cans (which equals 2 bottles) and ranges from $48 to $78, depending on the type of wine. That works out to roughly $24 to $39 a bottle. To save, use this link to get an extra 15% off.

I’m no sommelier, but all of these wines taste like they cost more than $30 a bottle. For that reason, I’m okay with the cost.

Avaline bottles cost start at just $20 with a subscription, making this the most affordable organic wine brand we’ve found. You can save 15% with code GOODSTUFF.

Is Drinking Organic Wine Healthful?

This is a tough question to answer. My take is that if you don’t drink, don’t start in an effort to become healthier. Most studies show that alcohol is not good for you in any amount. (I love Emily Oster’s take on this, though.)

If you do drink, I probably don’t need to remind you that while some wine consumption is maybe okay, too much is decidedly bad. There may be some benefits to light drinking, which include:

1. Lowered risk of heart disease, thanks to increased levels of “good cholesterol” from drinking wine, especially red wine.
2. Aging more slowly. Procyanidins found in red wine may be responsible for the longer life spans of people living in the Mediterranean. Procynaidns may even reduce wrinkles. Red wines produced the traditional way have the highest levels of procyanidins.
3. Improved brain function. Studies also show that moderate drinkers have a slower decline in brain function than those who abstain from alcohol.
4. Increased life expectancy. Studies also show that wine drinkers typically live longer than beer or hard liquor drinkers.
5. Better mental health. At least one study has shown that those who drink up to seven glasses of wine each week are less likely to suffer from depression than those who don’t drink.

How to Find Affordable Organic Wine Brands

Honestly, clean wines have kind of ruined me for any other kind! The food I buy is more expensive than “normal” food, so I’m comfortable with spending more on wine, too. I’m just drinking much less of it.

That said, if the brands I recommended here aren’t within your budget, you can:

• Look for the USDA organic label on the bottle. This means the wine is made from organically grown grapes, but it does not mean the wine won’t contain other problematic additives. 
• Ask the staff at your local Whole Foods, or even a good wine store, to point you to the organic or biodynamic wines. Some wines won’t be labeled.
• When in doubt, choose wines from France, Switzerland, and Austria. European wines are more likely to be organic and dry-farmed.

Please comment below with other healthy, organic wine brands you’ve found!

Stay sane, and cheers!

Maia, Founder & CEO