Heinz Eifel Shine Zero
Taste flavors of peach, apricot, lychee and citrus in this wine made from grapes harvested on the sloping hillsides of Germany’s prime wine growing regions. Dealcoholized.
Rivaner grapes are left to ripen fully on the vine, then cool-fermented in stainless steel to lock in freshness and aroma before gentle dealcoholization.
The Details
- <0.5% ABV
- Gluten-Free
Origin
Producer: Heinz Eifel
Country: Germany
Region: Rheinhessen
Grapes: Rivaner
Pairings
Spicy Asian Dishes
It leads with ripe peach, lychee and apricot, rounded out by a lift of citrus. The Rivaner grapes are cool-fermented in stainless steel to lock in that fresh, aromatic character before gentle dealcoholization.
It's made from Rivaner grapes grown on the sloping hillsides of Germany's prime wine growing regions, left to ripen fully on the vine before harvest.
Serve it well chilled in a white wine glass to show off the peach and lychee aromatics. Each bottle is 750 ml, so it pours about the same as a standard bottle of wine.
For a drink to be legally non-alcoholic, it has to be 0.5% alcohol by volume or less. While this doesn't make it totally alcohol-free, it does mean it is impossible to experience any intoxication or other psychoactive effects from alcohol. For context, a slice of sourdough bread or a ripe banana has more alcohol by volume than any of our drinks!
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Dealcoholized wine is wine that has gone through the entire wine making process-- pressing, fermentation, and aging-- before the alcohol is removed.
Most wines are dealcoholized using a technique called "vacuum distillation", where the wine is heated under a vacuum at very low temperatures. This allows for the alcohol to evaporate at a much lower temperature than boiling it off on your stove, like when you cook with alcohol or spirits. The result is that the flavor molecules that make up the flavor notes stay intact, giving our dealcoholized wines their characteristic complexity.
Sometimes, producers may add grape juice, grape must (a crush of whole grapes), sugar, or flavoring agents back to the dealcoholized wine in order to bulk up the body or balance the flavor.
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