No-Low Wines Innovation or Revolution?

Innovation or Revolution?

by Bernard Hawadier (writer)
Collection: Hors Collection
january 2026
Référencer ce produit sur votre site

Summary

As drinking habits shift worldwide, no- and low-alcohol wines (no-low wines) are reshaping the wine landscape. Driven by health-conscious lifestyles, the search for well-being, powerful marketing narratives, and profound generational change, these beverages are gaining momentum. Yet a fundamental question remains: can wine still be called wine when intoxication, fermentation, and cultural heritage are pushed into the background?

From the symbolic and spiritual origins of wine to its most advanced technological transformations, this book delivers a sharp and thought-provoking exploration of the no-low phenomenon. Are these wines oxymoronic creations or new expressions of pleasure? Genuine innovations or hollow imitations? Through a critical, sensory, and legal perspective, the author examines the tensions, promises, and limitations of a revolution that is already underway.

Written for both professionals and curious readers, this book stands at the crossroads of wine culture, law, and ethics, offering a fresh and challenging vision of the future of wine.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Wine: a story of alcohol

Primitive wine

Sacred wine

Christian wine

Wine and intoxication

Gastronomic wine

Ethical wine

“Œnological” wine

“Technological” wine

2. Origins and ambiguities of no-low wines

The desire for alcohol-free wine

No-low wines: a modern solution or a nihilistic substitute?

No-low wines confronted with resistance and criticism

3. What are no-low wines?

Alcohol in wine: an essential function

The leading dealcoholization techniques

Alternatives to dealcoholization: another way of producing no-low wines

4. No-low wines: turning wine law upside down?

In search of the legal identity of no-low wines

Which legal framework for no-low wines?

What constraints apply to no-low wine brands?

Is wine still a product of alcoholic fermentation?

Conclusion

Bibliography

Press

More contents

Features

Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1st edition

Collection: Hors Collection

Published: 22 january 2026

Reference Book: 03038

Reference eBook [PDF]: 03038NUM

Reference eBook [ePub]: 03038EPB

EAN13 Book: 9782759242023

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782759242030

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759242047

Interior: Black & white

Format (in mm) Book: 145 x 210

Pages count Book: 80

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 80

Reading time eBook [PDF] :

Weight (in grammes): 115

Size: 973 KB (PDF), 1.27 MB (ePub)

Vidéo