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Reverse osmosis is one way to cut alcohol levels in wine.

The argument is that perhaps using a reverse osmosis machine like this can actually improve wine quality.

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Removing Alcohol in Wine--for Balance

Editor-at-Large, Dan Berger offers his rebuttal to his APPELLATION AMERICA colleague, Alan Goldfarb’s, article on one of the “wine industry’s dirty little secrets” -- Cutting the Alcohol In Wine: What Wineries Don’t Want You To Know

by Dan Berger
January 30, 2007



Two decades ago, David Stare at Dry Creek Vineyards got in a load of Chenin Blanc grapes from a respected grower, who had accidentally harvested them a bit too early. Stare knew the grapes would not make the kind of dry-styled wine that he always made from Chenin Blanc.

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