A process for making a low-alcohol, low-calorie wine is provided, as well
as a composition thereof. The process includes the steps of providing a
wine with a low alcohol content and then blending additives to achieve
the character of a full-alcohol wine. Methods of providing a wine with a
low-alcohol content include separating alcohol from full-alcohol wines or
using grapes in the mash with a lower sugar content prior to
fermentation. In one method of making a low-alcohol wine to which flavors
can be added, regular, full-alcohol wine is reduced to 0.5-1.5% alcohol
content through traditional de-alcoholization processes (for example
spinning cone separation, evaporation, or membrane filtration under high
pressure), and then blended with a fraction of the same full alcohol wine
to achieve a wine with less alcohol than regular wines. Flavoring is
added to this mixture.