Non-alcoholic Red Wine

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Kathy,

I'm sorry to say this but the answer is no for a number of good reasons.

1. If it ain't got alcohol it ain't wine

okay that was fun..now for a better answer

2. Grape Juice is very sweet and unrefined. Fermentation, takes this sugar and turns it into alcohol. No alcohol = no fermentation = Sugar still there. In general (not counting port and boytritis affected wine) great wine is Dry (or let me say, not sweet). By dry I mean a minimum of residual sugar (residual = left over AFTER fermentation).

3. Wine is made in a process where excelence and quality at every step may deliver a great product. Every part of the process contributes to the making of great wine from the soil to the grape variety, to the innitial fermentation, to the bottling and finaly the bottle aging. Unfortunately an imperfection in any of these steps will ruin the worlds best wine. The fermentation of grapes is a very delicate process and a winemaker learns that it is key to start it at the right time, in the right conditions etc. Anyway the point is

If it doesn't have alcohol, it didn't ferment. If it didn't ferment, it aint wine its grape juice. No bottle of grape juice will ever send you on waves of pleasure and survive in your memory for your whole life like a great bottle of wine can. If you are Muslim or Orthodox Christian and believe that God will send you to hell for drinking alcohol...well look at it this way...God is reasonable. There a minute amounts of alcohol in so many things that every human has inbibed some at some point in his life. So either every human who has ever lived is going to hell, or God is really against innebriation. In this case have 1 glass of wine /wk. You won't get drunk, you will never be an alcoholic and god will still send you to heaven imho.