Vegan wine (My Vegan Hell)

[Guest guest]

The Co-Op helpfully label all their own brand wines as vegetarian or

vegan if they are, and a reasonable number of them are vegan.

 

Threshers are supposed to maintain a checklist of which of their

stocked wines are veggie or vegan. I haven't tried asking in a

number of years (I now tend to make my occasional wine purchases from

Vintage Roots) but the last time I did, the assistant did know what I

was talking about and managed to find a couple of vegan bottles that

they had in stock.

 

As mentioned before, what makes it veggie, vegan or carnivore is

usually the fining (clarification) process. The most common fining

agents are isinglass (fish bladder) or bonemeal charcoal hence not

veggie or vegan. Some use egg albumen, which makes the wine

vegetarian but not vegan. Vegan wines, I believe, use non-animal

sourced charcoal filters or just natural settling processes. The

same fining process details are what makes beer vegan, veggie or

neither.

 

Cheers,

 

 

Matthew