“What Every Vegan & Vegetarian Should Know About Wine

Winemaking is not for the faint of heart, especially when it comes to considering the unusual ingredients that have been used in the fining process. It might surprise vegan and vegetarian wine lovers to know that traditionally, animal products have been used to create clear sediment-free wines and several are still in use today.

Fining is the process that winemakers use to remove any visible floating particles that might make the wine look cloudy or hazy and to help stabilize the wine. They are usually added to the barrel or tank following fermentation where they collect or absorb the unwanted particles and fall to the bottom as a sediment. There are different types of fining agents depending on what type of wine is being made.

Some fining agents are fairly innocuous like bentonite which is a type of clay, while others can cause real headaches for vegetarians and vegans. These more dubious fining agents include casein or milk protein, egg whites, fish bladders, ox blood, and animal-derived gelatin.

Interestingly, wineries are not required to list these animal-based additives on their labels since the fining agents fall to the bottom of the tank or barrel and are filtered out of the wine. It is also not a requirement for wines to be labelled with whether they are vegan or vegetarian or not. However, animal-derived fining agents is still problematic for those with moral objections to the use and consumption of any animal products.

Luckily for drinkers of kosher wines, due to the restrictions of the kosher diet and careful control in wineries crafting kosher wines these animal-derived fining agents are never used in the production process.

Is Kosher Wine Vegan?

Most Kosher wines are vegetarian. Kosher wines will never use animal derived fining agents, except for fish gelatin or egg whites, which may be used in some kosher wines. Kosher wines using fish gelatin or egg whites are not considered vegan and not included on our list of vegan wines.”

Please ammend your post as it makes some assumptions that are easy to make but are actually not fact-based and can cause people to inadvertently buy wines that are made using animal products, even if they are removed and filtered out.

https://www.kosherwine.com/vegan-wines.html
(BTW, your form won’t accept my double last name!)
Patience Rojas-Taylor