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What is vegan wine?
Vegan refers to wine that has been produced without the use of products of animal origin.
Animal products can be used in fining, for example, to remove lees from the wine. Such lees are residues from winemaking and can be bound by proteins. These proteins are usually obtained from hens' eggs (egg white), milk(casein), animal bones, cartilage and skins(gelatine) or the swim bladders of fish(isinglass).
The proteins are exclusively aids in wine production and are filtered out of the wine after fining together with the bound lees.
Vegan wine, for example, can be fined with mineral clay(bentonite) instead of egg white. In vegetarian wine, only gelatine and fish bladder are not used as fining agents