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No, and for good reason: there isn't really any functional difference between the two.

I had a Sutter Home product called Fre' a number of years ago that was quite good at least for the varietals I tried. Wine is more than grape juice with alcohol in it. There are distinct changes to the flavor profile that are due to fermentation that aren't directly associated with alcohol. Those flavors are still there in Fre'.

Stephen

I just tried a bottle of that on Sunday and it tasted just like grape juice. But of course this stuff changes year to year.

Most of those flavors are due, not to the fermentation process, but to the *aging* process -- which consists mostly of the various carboxylic acids present in the juice reacting with the alcohol to form esters. No alcohol = no esters = dramatically less complex flavor and aroma profiles.

Thanks for that Doug. Now all I have to do is find a good aged wine that is dealcoholized AFTER aging.

Which, I meant to add, is why the bottle you had tasted like ... grape juice. Probably much better grape juice than Welch's from the supermarket, but still grape juice.

Good luck with that one. Have you talked to your physician and pharmacist yet? I think you're more likely to be able to work together with the medical people to figure out a regimen that allows you a small amount of wine, than to find "a good aged wine that is dealcoholized after aging".

They tell me that I'll be able to drink normal wine again but not for a year.

"Tom Kunich" wrote in news:R-CdnYPXoLCQvJvSnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

In a way, that's good news: all the wine you've made so far gets an extra year of aging before you start to drink it. If you make more starting *now*, that will be able to age even longer, until you run out of what you've already made.