Non alcoholic wine was first invented in 1908.
And although wine has been around for thousands of approximately 8000 years, non-alcoholic wine is a relatively young beverage.
The non alcoholic wines invention is credited to the Jung family, who owned a vineyard in the Rhine region in Germany.
The first marketed soft drinks (non-carbonated) appeared in the seventieth century.
They were made from water and lemon juice sweetened with honey. In 1676, the Compagnie de Limonadiers of Paris was granted a monopoly for the sale of lemonade soft drinks.
The single greatest difference between non-alcoholic wine and grape juice is in their production.
Simply put: non-alcoholic wine is made exactly like its alcoholic counterpart, but with one extra step: the alcohol is removed.
Grape juice, on the other hand, is merely the unfermented juice of grapes.
The true nonalcoholic / dealcoholized wine is produced from wine that has been fermented with yeasts and has undergone a vinification process, then goes through an additional process of having the alcohol removed.
All other fruit-based products marketed as nonalcoholic wine are simply juice.