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For many, one of the simplest pleasures of life is a glass ofwine. Not that he needs a reason or a season to indulge, but there is nothing else than enjoying a cold glass ofPink on a hot summer day or a glass of glass ofbubbles Celebrate a little victory (like another week). But forcalvesThis can be a difficult business.

Of course, it seems unlikely that the eggs, dairy and maritime life can be involved in your wine, but there are hidden components in the vinification process that really involve these animal by-products. Although many vegans are hyper-conscious of this fact, many who consume wine assume that their favorite Cabernet glass involves nothing more thanfruit. Unfortunately, they are wrong.

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Hidden ingredients used to make wine

"There are some products derived from animals that have been used in the vinification for many years. These products are most often used to clarify, polish or soften a wine or to correct a defect,"Andrew Wilson, Winmaker for Goose Ridge Estate Vineyards & Winery in Washington State.

Examples include: egg whites used to eliminate difficult tannins; milk used to eliminate phenolic red or whites; gelatin used to polish tannins in red wine; and Isinglass, a gelatin derived from fish blades, can be used to clarify white wines.

The use of one of these products would prevent a wine from being called vegan.

However, it is important to keep in mind that these agents "at the end", whether derived from animals or plants, are not part of the composition of the wine. Once they are added, "said Wilson," they settle or are filtered out of the wine, hopefully, taking everything we were trying to remove with them. At the moment the wine is bottled, it n. There would be tiny traces on the left, if any.. "

New herbal products offer a solution

Although it may seem easy to exchange plant-based products for animal derived, product winegers can use in vinification are limited to a list of approved products (at least, in the United States), Which facilitates the whole process made.

The good news is that recently there has been more products on the market that are derived from plants that can be used in the same way as their predecessors of animals. To the applause of vegan consumers of wine everywhere, use them instead of the traditional finishing agents made from animals would allow the wines of being vegan.

"Many winemakers, included, want to use these new products derived from the plant," says Wilson. "It's just a matter of determining how they work in relation to older and more well understood products."

"There are new herbal products that come out all the time, trying to give the winemakers more tools to replace what they may have used before."

For consumers, it is difficult to know which products have been used to make a wine because it is rarely part of a wine label.Usually, the best way to know if a wine isvegan is to consult a website or information sheet of a wine estate.

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