Creating an extraordinary wine begins long before it reaches the glass. It is a journey that starts in the vineyard and culminates in a perfectly balanced wine—where every step of the process is designed to maximize flavor and quality.

For NoLo wines, where alcohol levels are carefully adjusted without compromising the wine’s integrity, a completely new approach to winemaking is required.

Traditionally, NoLo wines have been treated as conventional wines that undergo alcohol reduction at the final stage. However, this approach often strips away essential aromas and structural components, resulting in wines that lack depth and complexity.

The future of NoLo wine is not about removing something at the end—it is about cultivating, fermenting, and refining the wine’s alcohol content in a way that enhances and preserves its natural character.

UnRewined’s innovative solution—an affordable, fully automated, modular, non-destructive alcohol adjustment system—gives winemakers the freedom to shape each vintage to perfection.

Step 1: The Vineyard – Where Flavor Begins
Everything starts in the vineyard. The ripeness of the grapes, tannin structure, and acidity are influenced by climate, soil composition, and cultivation methods.
For traditional high-alcohol wines, grape growing is often optimized for maximum sugar concentration, producing powerful wines but also resulting in high alcohol content.
For NoLo wines, the approach needs to be different. Instead of maximizing sugar accumulation, the goal is to create balance in the fruit from the moment it is harvested. This involves:
• Harvesting at optimal phenolic ripeness—when tannins are smooth and aromas are at their peak.
• Working with cooler microclimates or high-altitude vineyards to retain natural acidity.
• Managing canopy growth and selective pruning to balance sun exposure and the sugar-acid ratio.
By harvesting grapes with the intention of making a refined NoLo wine, winemakers lay the foundation for a product that is naturally rich and balanced, whether its final alcohol content is 12% or 0.05%.

Step 2: Must Production – Building Complexity from the First Extraction
The moment the grapes are pressed, the core elements of the wine’s aroma profile are set in motion. Maceration—the process where skins, seeds, and pulp interact with the juice—determines much of the wine’s color, texture, and depth.
For NoLo wines, a carefully tailored approach is essential:
• Shorter or cooler maceration to extract fresh fruitiness without overpowering phenolics, which can feel unbalanced at lower alcohol levels.
• Yeast selection that enhances aromatics and structure rather than aggressively converting sugars into alcohol.
• Precise oxygen management to preserve delicate aromas that might otherwise be lost later in the process.
By considering the final alcohol level at this stage, the winemaker ensures that the wine’s structure is naturally suited to its intended form, rather than making post-production compromises.

Step 3: Fermentation – Controlling Alcohol, Enhancing Complexity
Traditionally, fermentation is designed to convert sugars into a full-alcohol wine, with de-alcoholization as a later step. However, this approach builds a wine for high alcohol, leading to flavor balances that may feel incomplete if alcohol is later reduced.
A new mindset is needed—one that focuses on precisely controlling alcohol development during fermentation, allowing winemakers to:
• Stop fermentation early to retain natural residual sweetness and produce lower-alcohol expressions.
• Use yeast strains with naturally low alcohol tolerance while still delivering complex flavors.
• Implement stepwise fermentation to gradually build and fine-tune the alcohol level, rather than aiming for a one-size-fits-all approach.
Even with these advanced techniques, fermentation alone cannot always achieve the exact alcohol content required for consistency and balance. This is where the final and most crucial step comes in.

Step 4: Non-Destructive Alcohol Adjustment – Precision Without Compromise
When the winemaker has created a wine with optimal flavor and structure, the final adjustment is needed to fine-tune alcohol content without disrupting balance.

Unlike traditional approaches that can alter the wine’s aromatic and phenolic structure, UnRewined’s technology offers:

✅ A non-destructive method—allowing alcohol levels to be adjusted with microscopic precision while preserving the wine’s full sensory profile.

✅ A fully automated and modular system—empowering vineyards of all sizes with their own in-house precision alcohol control.

✅ A sustainable and economically viable solution—enabling wineries to produce high-quality NoLo wines without excessive costs or loss of quality.

The Missing Piece in NoLo Wine Perfection
With UnRewined’s advanced system, winemakers finally have the missing tool—the ability to fine-tune alcohol content with precision, without ever compromising the wine’s character.

Whether a given vintage produces a natural alcohol level of 14.5% or 10%, the winemaker now has full control to adjust it to the ideal balance—whether that means crafting a refined 12.5% wine or an exceptional 0.05% alternative.

This means NoLo wines are no longer an afterthought. They are no longer a secondary option.

They are the future of quality winemaking.