Vegan wine - this is how the animal comes to the wine |Stern.de

Veganer Wein? Klingt wie ein Widerspruch in sich.Wie soll denn das Tier in die Trauben gelangen? Tut es aber. Was Wein mit Fisch, Schwein und Huhn zu tun hat. Von Ann-Christin Baßin

Of course, wine is a purely vegetable product.The fact that there are now also vegan wine causes irritation among occasional drinkers.What many do not know: winemakers use animal warranty to free and filter wines from fuels.For example with gelatin made of pork swarts or from bones, cartilage and tendons from beef.Or with the house bubble from the dried swimming bubble of interference or catfish.But chicken property can also help the wine clarify.These parts of the animal, also called "beautiful fittings" are mainly used by traditional wineries.Mostly with red wines, depending on how a vintage turns out.By adding the animal products, for example, the undesirable ingredients (floating particles) flakes, fall to the ground faster, and the clear wine can be deducted from above.

Do you taste the ingredient "fish bubble"?

There are also beautiful things that correct the taste: If grapes are heavily mechanically contaminated with the harvest and processing, tannins (phenols) are created that taste the red wine bitterly.Then you use protein -based products to tie off the tannins.You can also get a slight vinegar taste with it.By the way, wine that was filtered with the help of house bubble does not taste like fish!Fish proteins can still be present in extremely small quantities, so high -grade fish allergy sufferers should not drink corresponding wines.Dr.Margitta Worm from the Allerie-Centrum-Charité in Berlin..If in doubt.

Animal clarification means are considered technical aids, and since they are removed after production, you do not have to declare them on the wine label.Even if nothing can be found in the bottle of the clarification means, they are a horror for vegans!But they also want to drink wine.

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Which alternative substances are there?

In vegan wine, winemakers do without these animal products.Instead, use Z.B.Bentonite, a mixture of rock from different sound minerals to clarify their wine.Or plant -produced tannins.Another method is to leave the wine lying on the yeast until the turbines are settled by themselves.Then you can fill the wine without filtration.But you have to give him time, about three to six months.Depending on the quality standards.

Today, many conventional winemakers also do without animal clarification means because they are expensive and you can filter wines.

Incorrectly, vegan and organic winegrowing is often equated because both work very natural and very puristic.However, many animal products are in use in organic incorporation, for example, the compost consists of animals and small states.In addition, horn manure and horn pebbles are used in part.

How do you recognize vegan wine?

Vegan diet is trendy.The German winegrowers and saddles also know that.In the meantime, a closer look at the wine labels in the supermarket is sufficient: Many winegrowers write the indication of their bottles.For five years the topic has clearly recorded speed.There is a special V label developed by the European vegetarian union-in Germany from the Vegetarian Association (VeBU).At first glance, consumers see that the product has been made free.The composite controls ingredients of the drinks as well as processing aid substances on animal sources.

But you shouldn't be too dogmatic on this topic.Many winemakers nowadays produce wines that meet vegan criteria but are not certified because it costs a lot of money (approx..5000-15.000 euros, depending on the size and production of the winery).In addition, only a few vegan wines are harvested by hand, but with mechanical grape harness-and with it many small beetles and beneficials ...

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