First halal certified wine

After two years experimenting, the Dutch entrepreneur Taner Tabak has managed to produce a 100% halal wine. This reports the site Wereldjournalisten.nl. His Kevser Helal Wine has been awarded the Halal Quality Control (HQC) certificate. This implies that there is zero percent alcohol in it. So called alcohol-free wines such as the wines of Domaine de Fleur we reported earlier on still contain traces of alcohol. They may be legally called free of alcohol, but they do not pass the halal test. Faithful Muslims can not drink alcohol, though not every believer follows this rule. (Read in this context this blog post about an incident in 2006 on a Cathay Pacific flight.) Taner Tabak developed his halal wines (white, red and sparkling) in collaboration with a German company using a new technical process that is now patented. There has been interest in the halal wines from Belgium and from countries like Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Dubai and even Saudi Arabia. We have no information on how these halal wine actually taste like.

6 Comments

  1. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we have been able to get Halal wine in Australia since 2003. Patritti Wines, of Dover Gardens, have been accredited by the Islamic Council. I found out about it in Kuala Lumpur in December 2003 and remarked to my dining partner that this was made 5 miles from where I live…

    It has also been certified by the government of South Australia, as there is a 10 cent deposit on the bottles that the wine comes in, under the bottle and can legislation. Proper wine

    From what I can recall, they have 6 varieties in their Halal range. A sparkling and still red, a sparkling and still white, golden muscatel and I think they also have apple juice with the Halal marking.

  2. I’ve never tried wine because of religious reasons or any alcohol of any sort, but where can I get this halal wine?!

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