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Low alcohol wines don’t have to taste awful. Try these…
Not all zero- or low-alcohol wines have had their soul removed
Can a wine be a wine without alcohol? Not according to the European Union it can’t. Who knows what will happen to legal definitions in the UK once the definitive break with the continent is finally made, but for now, with one or two exceptions, fermented grape juice must reach at least 8.5% abv if it’s to qualify to have the word wine on the label.
But the question isn’t just a legalistic one. For those of us looking to cut down on booze, it’s more urgently about aesthetics: can a wine without alcohol ever really taste, in any meaningful sense, like wine?