Can vegans drink wine?

Why many wines are not suitable for vegans?

Why do most types of wine are not suitable for vegans? You still talking about wine is made only from grapes?

During production most wines are cleared by a process that most often used animal products such as casein (protein from milk) or egg white. If guilt is not subjected to such treatment will dull. Right there intervene casein and egg protein. Clarifiers are "captured" for proteins dissolved in the wine and make them settle and collect at the bottom of the tank. The result is crystal clear wine.

Few facts

Common practice is for the qualitative white, rosé and sparkling wine to use gelatine (by-product from fish processing) for clarification.

Common practice is for red wine to use egg whites or casein, to remove the bitter taste phenols.

European wineries have ever used cow blood for clarification of wine, but it is not practiced as often.

Clarifiers are removed before bottling.

How to find vegan's wines

Vegan wines are not very common, but still exist. When winemakers practiced minimal intervention in the cellar, there is most likely to find wines that are not clarified or filtered. Yet ask the winery or importer, to make sure to what extent this is true.

Here are some tips for vegan wines.

The wines are unfiltered to confused and are vegan.

Fault filtered only with sterile filters (ceramic filters) or membrane filtration are vegan. Ask the manufacturer about the method of filtering.

Some mass producing wineries use sterile filters instead of animal products.

Some wineries use bentonite for the clarification of the protein of white wines, instead of gelatin.

Biodynamic wines can make vegan way when not clarify, but since the process of farming using animal bones (for special mixes, compost), this renders vegan properties.

If wine is organic, it does not guarantee that it is vegan.