In episode 246 of The Drinking Hour, host David Kermode is joined by Michael Bright, founder of Edenvale, an IWSC-award winning non-alcoholic wine producer, and Silvia Cedeño, managing director of BevZero, a dealcoholisation technology company, to discuss the state of play in the non-alcoholic wine category.
The conversation begins by covering the growth of the category and the challenges faced by producers of non-alcoholic wine versus those operating in non-alcoholic beer and spirits. Bright discusses the advent of vacuum distillation as a method of producing Edenvale’s wines and the benefits it brings compared with previous dealcoholisation processes.
Amongst other topics, Cedeño and Bright then talk about the grape varieties proving to have the most potential as candidates for dealcoholisation and why sourcing of the fruit for non-alcoholic wines is becoming increasingly important as production methods improve. The episode finishes with the question of non-alcoholic wine’s environmental impact.
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