If you filter out the alcohol content from wine, can you still call it wine? Or does that make it a different drink?

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RayAnderson
1 year ago

Hello

If you filter out the alcohol content from wine, can you still call the wine a wine? Or is it different from the drink?

Yep.

A wine to which the alcohol was withdrawn remains a wine, explicitly a “alcohol-free” wine.

The term “alcohol-free” is not correct. It is an alcohol-reduced wine. In the process, a residual alcohol usually remains which may be up to 0.5%.

That this would be grape juice is nonsense and prohibited by regulation.

As a “alcohol-free” wine is to be produced, § 47 of the German wine regulation determines this.

However, grape juice naturally also usually contains a small amount of alcohol. Often, this is even above a higher alcohol content than “alcohol-free” wine. While fruit juices may contain only 0.5% alcohol, the permitted alcohol content in grape juice is up to 1.0%.

If champagne was withdrawn from the alcohol, it would actually be another drink. By regulation, champagne must have a minimum alcohol content of 12%.

Good to you… and stay healthy.

Greeting, RayAnderson 😉

Caila
1 year ago

Then it’s juice when you remove the whole alcohol.
Alcohol-free wine still has a minimum amount of alcohol. This is caused by fermentation. Without fermentation, it would be just grape juice.

GabHH
1 year ago
Reply to  Caila

Grape juice naturally also contains alcohol. The alcohol content is often higher than “alcohol-free” wines.

“Alcohol-free” wine is not a juice!

Caila
1 year ago
Reply to  GabHH

Yes, we’re talking about completely alcohol-free wine… if you want to ANNUAL alcohol removed.
For 0,0 % alcohol it is certainly NO wine more.

GabHH
1 year ago

Yes, we’re talking about…

WIR…? That’s exclusive. Neither is asked about it, nor has anyone referred to it here.

Wine is not a juice, whether with alcohol or “alcohol-free”.

Maybe you can read the German wine regulation.

RayAnderson
1 year ago

Yes, we are talking about completely alcohol-free wine

  1. does not correspond to the question
  2. but even 0.0% alcohol is still wine. This is required by wine regulations!
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1 year ago

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