Who makes alcohol-free wine in Spain

Walk down the 0.0% aisle of a Spanish supermarket and you will find dozens of bottles from some thirty wineries. The number of plants that can physically take the alcohol out of wine is far smaller. A handful of big houses run their own columns, other brands truck their wine to a service plant, and plenty simply don’t say where the work is done. EU law allows three routes: vacuum evaporation, membranes and distillation (Regulation (EU) 1308/2013, Annex VIII, Part I, Section E, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2021/2117). Which one a given brand picked, and whose column it was, is something the label seldom tells you. Some growers would rather bring the alcohol down earlier, in the vineyard, as in the project covered in our piece on GO UBAVIDA.

Map of Spain showing the in-house dealcoholisation plants of Familia Torres, Freixenet, Matarromera and Gil Family Estates, the contract plants at Villatobas, Requena, Alcàsser and Cariñena, and the home base of six brands that name their method but not the place. — Where Spanish wine has its alcohol taken out

Houses with their own plant

Familia Torres works with spinning cones at its own facilities in Penedès. Natureo arrived in 2008 and Sangre de Toro 0,0 followed in 2018, though the family has been researching the process since 2004. The next step is already public: a winery devoted to alcohol-free wine at Pacs del Penedès, 1,500 m² in size, a €6 million investment, due to start up in early 2027 (Decanter; El Periódico, 25.05.2025). Torres’s volumes and export figures are covered in our Spanish market report. What matters here is that the company controls the whole chain, from grape to bottle.

Matarromera got there first in Ribera del Duero. Its Planta de Deconstrucción Molecular at Valbuena de Duero was built in 2010 for more than €4 million, with 1,500 m² of floor space and a stated capacity of 9 million litres (corporativo.matarromera.es). It too relies on spinning cones, and the process is covered by patent PCT/ES2010/070497, granted in May 2014. The WIN wines are sold through a separate group company, SIN ALCOHOL SL.

Freixenet has had far less attention, even though, on the public figures, it sells more bottles than Torres. Manel Quintana, who heads the house’s dealcoholised wines, told Cupatges (17.12.2024) that the winery does its own dealcoholisation, in evaporation columns at very low pressure and around 30 °C. It began in 2010 with a million bottles. In 2024 it turned out 5.5 million under the Freixenet brand alone, and 95% went abroad. The wider Henkell Freixenet group also has its own centre for dealcoholised drinks in Wiesbaden, where the installation of Solos’s aroma recovery system was announced on 21.10.2026 (Vinetur, 21.10.2026).

Gil Family Estates in Jumilla launched Disfrutand0,0 on 16.06.2023. The alcohol, it says, is removed “at a new facility that was specifically designed for this within our own winery” (gilfamily.es). It does not name the method. The range includes a red, which is the hardest style to get right without alcohol, as our piece on alcohol-free reds explains.

Few producers own a column, and nearly all of them are big exporting houses: Torres, Matarromera, Freixenet and Gil Family.

Plants that work for others

For a mid-sized bodega, building its own plant rarely pays, and over the past few years Spain has grown a network of contract dealcoholisers. They collect wine in bulk, strip out the alcohol and send the base back, sometimes as a finished bottle.

Diagram of three groups: wineries with their own plant, plants that work on contract, and brands that name the method but not where the alcohol is removed. — Three kinds of producer

BevZero Spain at Villatobas (Toledo) was first in. A 2,200 l/h GoLo unit has been running there since November 2022 (BevZero press release, 4.10.2022), and the scope on its IFS certificate is blunt: dealcoholisation of bulk wine for further processing. The same site houses a demonstration ClearAlc column made by Madrid-based Tomsa Destil, which BevZero distributes in Europe. The technologies themselves are explained on our GoLo and ClearAlc pages.

In Requena, Desalco (Servicios de Desalcoholización SL) sells dealcoholisation of wine as a service. It describes a low-temperature vacuum process and promises residual alcohol below 0.05% (desalco.es). It publishes neither volumes nor clients.

Solos, a subsidiary of the Dutch company Prodalim, officially opened its plant at Alcàsser (Valencia) on 15 January 2026. The site covers 2,400 m² and can handle up to 16 million litres a year, with a Centec DeAlcoTec vacuum column, Solos’s own aroma recovery system (ARS) and bottling on site (Vinetur, 22.01.2026). It serves Spain and the south of France. There is a separate page on the technology.

The newest arrival is in the north-east. Destilerías San Valero, the Cariñena co-operative founded in 1957, has put more than €1.5 million into Aragón’s first dealcoholisation plant: a 2,000 l/h ClearAlc unit with potential for over 10 million litres a year. Production starts in October 2026 with wines from the 2026 vintage (HoyAragón, 03.09.2026; BevZero, 21.09.2026). The project also carries a legal detail none of the others share. The D.O. Cariñena specification already covers partially dealcoholised wines, and because every stage takes place inside the zone under the eye of the Consejo Regulador, those wines will be able to carry the D.O. seal. A fully dealcoholised wine still cannot be a PDO under EU law (Article 92(1) of Regulation (EU) 1308/2013; more in our EU wine law piece).

The stated capacity of Solos, San Valero and Matarromera alone comes to more than 35 million litres a year. INNOVI puts the domestic market at 3 to 4 million litres, and the IWSR estimates average volume growth in Spain at 6% a year between 2019 and 2024. These plants, in other words, are built for export and for other people’s brands.

Horizontal bars: the stated capacity of Solos (16 million litres a year), Destilerías San Valero (over 10) and Matarromera (9) adds up to more than 35 million litres, against a domestic market of 3 to 4 million litres according to INNOVI. — Capacity against the home market

A mid-sized bodega doesn’t need a plant of its own: Villatobas, Requena, Alcàsser and Cariñena will take the alcohol out on contract.

Brands that don’t say where the alcohol comes out

Most of what sits on the shelf belongs to this third group. The method is often named. The place hardly ever is.

Vicente Gandía (Chiva, Valencia) has made Cero Coma since 2021 and added Nebla 0,0 Verdejo in 2026. Its online shop says the winery opted for a vacuum packed column. Where that column stands, it doesn’t say.

Bodegas Murviedro of Requena, part of the Swiss Schenk group, launched the LIX range in July 2025: three still wines and two sparklers. The wine sheets name GoLo outright, which means low-temperature vacuum distillation (murviedro.es).

Raimat (Costers del Segre, Raventós Codorníu group) brought out Raimat Zero in October 2024. The wine is first made in the usual way, then the alcohol comes off by distillation, with no added aromas (group press release, 4.11.2024).

Paco & Lola (the Arousana co-operative, Val do Salnés) makes its Nº0 from Albariño and cites vacuum distillation (pacolola.com). Celler del Pescador (Girona) has sold Blanc Pescador 0,0 since May 2025, which the winery bills as Spain’s first alcohol-free vino de aguja; according to Vinetur (09.05.2025) the alcohol is removed by reverse osmosis. Bodegas San Valero released its Julietta Zero sparklers in December 2024, before the co-operative had a plant of its own, and describes the process as continuous distillation under deep vacuum.

Buen Finde (Falcon Vines) is made from Cuenca grapes, and the brand’s website lists GoLo.

For García Carrión (Jaume Serra Zero, Vegaverde 0,0) and Félix Solís (Viña Albali 0,0), public sources give neither the method nor the place of dealcoholisation. Nor is it known how much base wine comes in from abroad to end up under Spanish 0.0% labels.

A method printed on the bottle doesn’t mean the column belongs to the winery.

Producers and plants

Producer	Area	Brands	Own plant or contract	Method	Source
Familia Torres	Penedès	Natureo, Sangre de Toro 0,0, Viña Sol 0,0	Own (new winery at Pacs from 2027)	Spinning cone	torres.es; Decanter; El Periódico 25.05.2025
Matarromera	Ribera del Duero	WIN, EminaSin	Own, Valbuena de Duero (2010)	Spinning cone	corporativo.matarromera.es
Freixenet (Henkell Freixenet)	Penedès	Freixenet 0,0	Own, according to the winery	Vacuum evaporation, about 30 °C	Cupatges 17.12.2024
Gil Family Estates	Jumilla	Disfrutand0,0	Own facility at the winery	Not disclosed	gilfamily.es
Vicente Gandía	Valencia	Cero Coma, Nebla 0,0	Not disclosed	Vacuum packed column	vicentegandiashop.com
Bodegas Murviedro	Utiel-Requena	LIX	Not disclosed	GoLo	murviedro.es
Raimat (Raventós Codorníu)	Costers del Segre	Raimat Zero	Not disclosed	Distillation	raventoscodorniu.com 4.11.2024
Bodegas San Valero	Cariñena	Julietta Zero	Not disclosed (before its own plant)	Continuous distillation under deep vacuum	sanvalero.com 5.12.2024
Paco & Lola	Rías Baixas	Nº0	Not disclosed	Vacuum distillation	pacolola.com
Celler del Pescador	Girona	Blanc Pescador 0,0	Not disclosed	Reverse osmosis	Vinetur 09.05.2025
Buen Finde (Falcon Vines)	Cuenca (grapes)	Buen Finde	Not disclosed	GoLo	buenfinde.shop
BevZero Spain	Villatobas (Toledo)	Service	Contract	GoLo; demonstration ClearAlc	bevzero.com
Desalco	Requena	Service	Contract	Low-temperature vacuum	desalco.es
Solos (Prodalim)	Alcàsser (Valencia)	Service	Contract	Centec vacuum column and ARS	Vinetur 22.01.2026
Destilerías San Valero	Cariñena	Service	Contract, from 10.2026	ClearAlc	BevZero 21.09.2026; HoyAragón 03.09.2026

The 2026 launches

The year opened with Solos inaugurating Alcàsser and will close with San Valero switching on. In between, new labels from several regions have reached the shelf.

Date	Producer	Product	What we know	Source
15.01.2026	Solos	Alcàsser plant	Up to 16 million litres a year, contract work and bottling	Vinetur 22.01.2026
01.2026	Viña Costeira (Ribeiro)	Costeira 0,0	Blend of white varieties, dealcoholised at low temperature	SolWines 23.01.2026
26.01.2026	Vicente Gandía	Nebla 0,0 Verdejo	New branch of the Nebla range	vicentegandia.es
24.03.2026	LAUS (Somontano)	Cero by LAUS	Gewürztraminer; the winery says it is Spain’s first 0.0% from the grape	bodegalaus.es
15.07.2026	Faustino Rivero Ulecia (Arnedo)	FRIZZ 0.0	Frizzante made from dealcoholised wine with grape must	Mundo Vino 15.07.2026
10.2026	Destilerías San Valero	Cariñena plant	ClearAlc, 2,000 l/h, wines from the 2026 vintage	HoyAragón 03.09.2026

This year’s newcomers came from Ribeiro, Somontano, Rioja and Valencia.

What the label tells you, and what it leaves out

Since 25.09.2025 an agreement of the Mesa de Coordinación de la Calidad Alimentaria at MAPA, Spain’s agriculture ministry, has been in force. Wine-category products that have been fully or partially dealcoholised must be entered in the Registro de envasadores de vinos, the register of wine bottlers, and the registration number has to appear on the label. That number identifies whoever bottled the wine, not whoever took the alcohol out. If a bodega sends its wine to a service plant and gets it back, the label will carry the bodega’s own number. The rest of the label is decoded in our guide to reading an alcohol-free wine label.

Diagram: the winery sends bulk wine to a service plant, which removes the alcohol; the winery bottles it and the label carries its own bottler number. The label shows who bottled the wine, not who dealcoholised it or where. — What the bottler’s number tells you

Two provisions of Regulation (EU) 2026/471 touch producers in different ways. Article 1(15) already applies: sparkling and aerated sparkling wines may now be made from dealcoholised wine, which goes some way to explaining the run of fizzy launches over the past two years. Article 1(10), which brings in the terms “sin alcohol” (alcohol-free), “0,0 %” (for no more than 0.05%) and “reducido en alcohol” (reduced alcohol), has been adopted but will not apply until 19.09.2027. Until then, those words on a label fall under the general rules.

The bottler’s number tells you who filled the bottle. Who took the alcohol out is something the label won’t say.

Who makes alcohol-free wine in Spain

Houses with their own plant

Plants that work for others

Brands that don’t say where the alcohol comes out

Producers and plants

The 2026 launches

What the label tells you, and what it leaves out

Sources

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Houses with their own plant

Plants that work for others

Brands that don’t say where the alcohol comes out

Producers and plants

The 2026 launches

What the label tells you, and what it leaves out

Sources

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