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My sisters enjoy drinking wine but only prefer wine with low alcohol content. Their wine of choice is Novellino-Russo Classico which has an alcohol content of 4.5%. I would love to be able to make some Country Wines for them but with their preferred alcohol content. How would one make wine with a low alcohol content?
 
The easy answer is less fermentables.

Personally, I’d prefer six percent. Though four and a half should be high enough to prevent spoilage

Alcohol provides a lot of body for wine. This may not be a problem for them.

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I have been thinking about this as well.

The alcohol content is determined by the initial sugar level, so if you start with less sugar, you will get less alcohol. Different types of fruit have different amounts of sugar. For example, pressed apple juice, fermented into hard cider with no added sugar, will usually produce about 6% ABV.

I think that your best choice is to experiment with some different fruits. Measure the SG of the must, and add water until the SG is about 1.035. That would produce an ABV of about 4.5%. If you choose a very sweet fruit, you might have to add too much water, which will dilute the flavor too much. That will be the big challenge. You may need to experiment to see what will give an acceptable result. You can blend in some tart (higher acid, lower sugar) fruits to add to the flavor profile without raising the sugar level too high. For example, pears plus 10% or 15% crab apples

The other thing you might need to do is to increase the acid and tannin levels to a bit higher than you would with an 11% ABV fruit wine, because the balance will be off with less alcohol. You can add acid and tannin with the right kinds of fruit, e.g. crab apples.

I think that this is the simplest method of producing a low alcohol wine. The other option would be to try to stop the fermentation, leaving a sweeter and lower alcohol wine. Commercially, I think they use a very fine filter under pressure to remove the yeast. At home, the only practical way to do that is to pasteurize it. I am not excited about that option, because I think that it will affect the flavor.
 
My sisters enjoy drinking wine but only prefer wine with low alcohol content. Their wine of choice is Novellino-Russo Classico which has an alcohol content of 4.5%. I would love to be able to make some Country Wines for them but with their preferred alcohol content. How would one make wine with a low alcohol content?
I have never done this, but this is what I would try:

Alcohol boils at approximately 173 degrees F. I would make the wine as a normal process, determine the amount of alcohol in a given volume of wine and then heat it to about 180 degrees F. The wine's volume will decrease and that decrease should be the alcohol. For example, assume I start with 1 gallon (128 oz.) of wine at 12% that you want to get to 4.5%. I would need to reduce the volume of wine by 7.5% or from 128 oz. to 118.4 oz. I would let the wine cool at room temperature with an airlock in place.
 

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