Editorial policy

Beyond Wine is an independent reference on no- and low-alcohol specialty beverages for the table: the producers, the bottles and the people who make them. This page says how it is made and what you can ask of us.

What we cover

Beverages from 0.0% to roughly 4% ABV that are made with care and belong beside food: wine alternatives, craft ferments, kombucha, teas and blends. We judge each beverage on its character: its ingredients, how it is made, and how openly its maker describes it. We do not cover non-alcoholic spirits, non-alcoholic beer, mocktails, mixers, dealcoholized wine or beverages blended with dealcoholized wine.

Independence

Inclusion is an editorial decision and it is free. No payment affects whether a producer or beverage appears, where it appears, how much we write about it, or whether it is recommended.

Producers can send sources and suggest corrections. They do not control or approve what we write. Sending us a file does not publish it.

Sources

We work from what producers and the people behind them have made public: their websites, labels, technical sheets and public social media, and published interviews, podcasts, press articles and video. We also use interviews conducted by Beyond Wine and material that producers send us. Some of that material is not public. We do not publish the material itself, and a profile shows no source link for a statement that rests on it.

Every statement we hold is stored with the source it came from. Where a source is public, a profile links it for the main points of a paragraph, not for every sentence. Our writing rules require a fact that only the producer asserts to be presented as the producer's claim, and a quotation to name who said it.

How pages are written

Profile text is generated with AI from the sourced statements we hold. Most profiles are published without a person reading them first. The editor sets the rules the writing follows, and looks at a page when someone raises a question about it.

If a page says something its source does not support, that is an error, and we want to hear about it.

People

Our standard is to cover people's professional lives: their role, their work, and what they have said about that work.

A detail about someone's health or private life belongs on Beyond Wine only when they have made it public themselves and it explains their work, for example when a founder gives it as the reason the company exists. Private details about a person's family members fall outside that standard.

We have not yet checked the whole catalogue against this standard. If a personal detail appears anywhere on Beyond Wine and you think it should not, tell us. If it came from a private conversation, say so.

Corrections and removal

Write to [email protected]. The editor reads these messages. We do not promise a reply time.

A fact is wrong. Tell us what, and point us to a source if you can. We correct errors we can confirm. A corrected passage can be missing from the page until it is rewritten.
Information about you appears on Beyond Wine. You can ask what we hold about you, and ask us to correct or remove it. Tell us the page, or where you came across it. We look at each request on its own. Your other rights are described in the Privacy notice.
A photograph, illustration or logo is yours. Tell us which one. We will look into it and may remove, replace or credit it.
We quoted you or your publication. Tell us if you think a quotation goes too far.

Correcting an entry does not by itself erase the earlier versions we keep in our records. If you want something removed and not only corrected, say so. We cannot recall copies that others have already taken.

The Privacy notice covers how we handle information about visitors, contributors and the people in the catalogue. The Data License covers reuse of our content.