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What is low-alcohol wine?
Are LoNo wines alcohol free?
How many calories in non-alcoholic and de-alcoholised wines?
How many units in a bottle of alcohol-free wine?
Is alcohol-free wine safe for pregnant women?
Are LoNo wines vegetarian or vegan?
How is the alcohol removed?
Does wine taste the same if alcohol is removed?
Do you ship to the USA?
In the UK wines are classed as 'alcoholic', ‘de-alcoholised’, 'alcohol-free or 'non-alcoholic'. What does all this mean?
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'non-alcoholic' - is just that: no alcohol at all
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‘alcohol-free’ - is for drinks not above 0.05% abv
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‘de-alcoholised’ - is not above 0.5% abv
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‘low-alcohol’ - is not above 1.2% abv.
Above this level, duty is payable and a selling licence required. 'Alcoholic' wines have a typical abv of 12%.
Some supermarkets and wine merchants claim to sell low alcohol wines. In fact most of these wines are at least 8% abv. So, while they may be 'lower' alcohol than a typical wine, they are not low alcohol. Lono Drinks Co. do not sell low alcohol wines.
Generally, our drinks are between 0% and 0.2% abv (alcohol by volume). Some of our wines are above 0.05% so are classed as ‘dealcoholised’ (even though most of the rest of the world class these wines as 'alcohol free').
Remember that anything that CAN ferment produces alcohol as it ripens, and therefore a ripe grape, for instance, will contain alcohol!! Some fresh orange juices are above the UK 'alcohol free*' limit of 0.05% abv, as are some yoghurts and rye bread!
All our wines are roughly only one third while others have as little as a quarter of the calories of wines with alcohol. They do differ slightly from wine to wine, with the range across the board going from 20 to 28 calories per 100ml. There is about 5 grams carbohydrate per 100ml, but NO fat and no protein.
Work out your units for yourself with this handy sum: Strength (ABV) x Volume (ml) ÷ 1000 = No. of units. So a bottle of Ariel Cabernet Sauvignon would be
0.05abv x 750ml divided by 1000 = 0.03 of a unit!
A large proportion of our customers are expectant mums, who have found moving to our products is a successful way to maintain a decent social life. LoNo is proud to have supported maternity agencies and events since our beginnings more than 7 years ago. Any queries, then please call us on 01285 850682. We are here to help.
We are delighted to report that the all our wines are vegetarian and vegan. We are also very proud to say that the Carl Jung Brut was runner-up in the 2004 Vegetarian Society's Best Wine of the Year Awards, which is a pretty good indication of the quality, as this was against wines with alcohol.
Alcohol is removed in the manufacturing stage by three different processes at cool temperatures to avoid damaging the wines. All the wines are normal alcoholic wines up to the bottling process, so all the original characteristics are retained.
Steam Vacuum - The vaporisation temperature of alcohol is lower than that of wine. Under pressure, a lower temperature is needed for vaporisation. The Steam Vacuum is the pioneer de-alcoholising process, patented in 1904 by Carl Jung where this process is done in a vacuum which has NO pressure. The wine therefore looses its alcohol at a low temperature so retains the characteristics and flavours that would be lost with normal boiling.
Reverse Osmosis - forces the wine through a membrane (filter) to separate the alcohol from the rest of the wine.
Centrifugal Force - is used in some de-alcoholised wines to 'throw' the alcohol away from the wine through filters. This has to be repeated many times to reduce the alcohol molecules.
Alcohol does affect HOW we taste, but not WHAT we taste. Its removal will produce a slightly different portrait of what we are consuming. ‘Full bodied’ for instance is believed to be what a wine tastes like, but this is entirely wrong! Alcohol provides the ‘body’ and so more alcohol means more body. Alcohol also provides a texture, so its removal can change the 'feel' of a wine. Taste though is NOT affected by lowering or removing alcohol.
At the moment we do not ship to the USA due to very high shipping costs. We hope this may change in the future.
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