Why Consuming Alcohol Free Wine is good for you.

Over the years there has been a massive improvement in the production of de-alcoholised and alcohol free wines. They have gone from tasting like bad grape juice to pleasant drinks that taste like wine!

De-alcoholised wine is a superb alternative to traditional wine. Why drink de-alcoholised wines, I hear you ask. And my answer is that there are a number of good reasons why you should drink de-alcoholic wine. Dieters - de-alcoholised wines on average contain 50% less calories a glass than traditional wines. Recovering alcoholics although de-alcoholised wines taste so much like traditional wines, this could be seen as a step to close. The designated driver can now sit there drinking a glass of wine like the rest of the group instead of having to drink soft drinks all the time. Non-drinkers - a glass of de-alcoholised wine can be very inclusive. Religious abstainers again can be made to feel included. Pregnant and breastfeeding women can drink de-alcoholised wines.
Recent research in America has indicated that de-alcoholised red wine contains all of the properties that are contained in traditional red wines and are linked with improved health. According to some medical experts de-alcoholised wine is better for you than alcoholic wine. For one thing it contains on average 50% fewer calories. The average glass of wine contains c120 calories, the average de-alcoholised wine glass contains less than 35 calories!

Nowadays vineyards and wineries make the traditional wines and then remove the alcohol using a method called vacumn distillation. They can not remove a 100% of the alcohol but they can reduce the alcohol content to less than 0.5% alcohol. As only the alcohol is removed, the wine retains all the other elements that make it a wine.

Europe has embraced de-alcoholised wines and there are now a number of extremely good products  on the market across Europe. These are slowly making their way into Britain, but the main thing that has to be overcome in Britain is our reluctance to see the benefits of drinking a wine that tastes like wine but does not make us drunk!