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What Makes a Wine Vegan or Vegetarian?
Wine is tradiitonally made from fermenting grapes, but what becomes key to vegans or vegetarians is what additives or fining agents the winemakers use to perfect their wine's color, clarity, or flavor.
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.
Vegan Wineries Under Kosher Supervision
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Barkan Winery - Barkan is Israel’s largest winery and has pioneered plantings in the Negev Mountains and Judean Hills in addition to their extensive vineyards in Galilee and Samson.
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Elvi Winery - Elvi was founded in 2003 in Spain and takes its name from the Hebrew word for God, “El”, and the Catalan word for wine, “Vi”.
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Capcanes Winery - Capçanes is a traditional family-run co-operative which was the first Spanish winery to produce a kosher wine in the 20th century.
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Castel Winery - Castel is a benchmark Israeli boutique winery which was the first modern winery to be founded in the Judean Hills in Eli Ben Zaken’s backyard in 1988.
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Jezreel Winery - Jezreel works with a combination of Mediterranean and indigenous Israeli grape varieties to make what the winery calls the “original Israeli wine”.
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Covenant Winery - Covenant produces top quality kosher wines in Napa Valley, Sonoma, Lake County and Lodi in Northern California.
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Covenant Winery Israel is the result of Covenant’s expansion into the Middle East and crafts uniquely Israeli kosher wines from traditional French grape varieties.
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Hagafen Cellars - Hagafen was California’s very first kosher winery, founded in 1979, and produces excellent Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Chardonnay wines.
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Or Haganuz Winery - Or Haganuz is a community in northern Galilee which produces remarkable kosher wines in their boutique winery at the foot of Mount Meron. They also happen to make a sulfite-free wine called Elima
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Flam Winery - Flam converted to kosher wine production in 2010 and now produces stunning, award-winning wines from their prime vineyards in the Upper Galilee and Judean Hills.
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Vitkin Winery - Vitkin is a family-run boutique winery crafting delicious kosher wines from lesser-known varieties like Carignan, Cabernet Franc and Petite Sirah.