Sin alcohol: what the Spanish label means

The short answer

Sin alcohol is Spanish for without alcohol. Shoppers type it, and vino sin alcohol, when they want the Spanish shelf. In Spain, cerveza sin alcohol may legally cover beer under 1% vol — drinks this cellar does not list. The legal wine name is vino desalcoholizado at or below 0.5% vol. A search here still only returns drinks at or below 0.5% ABV.

Sin alcohol is a label claim, not a measured 0.0%.
Spanish beer law draws cerveza sin alcohol at under 1% vol, wider than this cellar.
The legal wine name is vino desalcoholizado. Production type stays on the review.

Sin alcohol is Spanish for without alcohol. Shoppers type it, vino sin alcohol, and sidra sin alcohol when they want a drink without alcohol. In this cellar the search finds drinks at or below 0.5% ABV. It does not change a sourced residual, and it does not classify how the drink was made.

What the word is allowed to mean

On Spanish wine, the legal name is vino desalcoholizado at or below 0.5% vol. Vino sin alcohol is how shoppers phrase it, not the denomination. Vino desalcoholizado.

On Spanish beer, cerveza sin alcohol is a legal category for beer under 1% vol (Real Decreto 678/2016, article 3, checked 21 October 2026). A beer at 0.9% could lawfully use the phrase and still sit outside this cellar. Cerveza sin alcohol.

A 0,0 on a Spanish beer label is a commercial indication, not the legal category name.

What it does not prove

A stated 0.0% residual. See 0.0% vs under 0.5%.
That a Spanish beer is at or below 0.5% ABV. The home-market beer line is wider.
That every result is Spanish. The query is category language in an English cellar.

Sidra sin alcohol is the same category phrase for cider. This page does not invent a Spanish cider statute. Cider results here still have to meet the 0.5% ceiling.