News From : DagangHalal.com (03 Sep 2009)
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.