Patent ID: 7828977

Claim:
An apparatus for removing at least one solute from wine comprising: a receptacle containing the wine; a nano-filtration unit in fluid communication with the receptacle; a means for driving the wine through the nano-filtration unit to produce a retentate at a retentate outlet and a raw permeate at a raw permeate outlet, wherein the raw permeate contains the at least one solute; a separation unit for absorbing at least a portion of the at least one solute from the raw permeate, the separation unit having an inlet in fluid communication with the raw permeate outlet of the nano-filtration unit and a treated permeate effluent outlet which is in fluid communication with the retentate outlet for combining the retentate egressing from the retentate outlet with the treated permeate egressing from the treated permeate effluent outlet to provide a treated wine as an alcoholic beverage.