LIGHT Live is a real wine, but without the alcohol.
To produce these fine wines, we use production plants in Italy, Spain and Germany. LIGHT Live Wines and Sparkling Wines are produced using classic vintage techniques, destalking, pressing (only for white wine) and fermentation. The alcohol is removed from the actual wine using specialized techniques. LIGHT Live use advanced technologies, a 40 square meter vacuum distillation unit.
In this, the reduced pressure (vacuum) lowers the boiling temperature of the wine to around 35° Celsius, and at this temperature, the alcohol it contains is removed through evaporation. After this, the residual alcohol content*in LIGHT Live is less than 0.2 Vol. %. Alcohol can be found in many foods you wouldn’t expect to find it. For example, it is present in bread at 0.3 % Vol alcohol, and in apple juice at around 0.4 % Vol, and even ripe bananas have an alcohol content that’s higher than that found in Light Live. Its alcohol content is rigorously checked, to ensure our Sparkling Wines* and Wines* can be described as ‘Alcohol-Free’.
Our state-of-the -art equipment can produce around 1,600 liters of alcohol-free wine every hour. To produce our sparkling wines however, the wine is subjected to a second fermentation instead of having carbon dioxide added.
The methods we use are particularly mild: the ingredients remain intact, for the most part, so the flavor has more of a chance to develop. Red wines are particularly good for the immune system, and reduce the risk of cancer, so its important that the cholesterol and polyphenol content remains unchanged by the production process.
*Under German food labeling legislation (LMKV), beverages with an alcohol-content up to 0.5 Vol % can be described as ‘alcohol-free’. This can still pose a threat to recovering Alcoholics or small children. Please bear this in mind when consuming such products.
