Alcohol licence for alcohol free wine

Charityworker

Hi. Do you know if you need an alcohol licence to give out free glasses on alcohol free wine? I'm thinking of running an exclusive ladies shopping evening in my shop.

paddyrg

No. Indeed assuming you don't give it to kids/aren't an off license/don't charge you may be able to give away the real stuff

Savvy_Sue

Having said that, when I was last in need of alcohol free wine, the situation was that it wasn't actually alcohol free, merely vv low alcohol, 0.5% I believe. So, depending on your rationale for not serving proper wine, you may do better with a posh alcohol free punch or juices.

martindow

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Having said that, when I was last in need of alcohol free wine, the situation was that it wasn't actually alcohol free, merely vv low alcohol, 0.5% I believe. So, depending on your rationale for not serving proper wine, you may do better with a posh alcohol free punch or juices.

I've had a search to try to find a UK source of when a drink become alcoholic. Doesn't ginger beer when traditionally made contain a little alcohol? During prohibition in America drinks could be sold with 1% or so alcohol. It is quite possible that the UK legal limit is a little over zero.

Aquamania

martindow wrote: »

I've had a search to try to find a UK source of when a drink become alcoholic. Doesn't ginger beer when traditionally made contain a little alcohol? During prohibition in America drinks could be sold with 1% or so alcohol. It is quite possible that the UK legal limit is a little over zero.

As I understand it :

Alcohol Free is defined in the UK as containing no more than 0.05% alcohol.

Non-Alcoholic means it contains zero alcohol.

De-alcoholised, which I think is what wine will be, is defined as containing no more than 0.5% alcohol.